Built from the inside,
for everyone outside.

From Imperial to the trading floor

After graduating from Imperial College London, Burak began his career at a European long/short equity hedge fund as Junior Investment Analyst. He then joined B2C2 as a Quantitative Trader on the delta-one desk, focused on high-frequency market making.

Burak founded Deltashark out of a conviction that the education needed to break into the buy-side has always been fragmented and prohibitively expensive. Scattered across narrow courses that teach a fraction of what the job actually demands, or locked inside master's programmes that cost a year's salary. He set out to build the complete buy-side education aspiring people deserve, in one place, at a price an individual can afford.

The gap Deltashark closes

Before entering the industry, Burak went through the same path most aspiring buy-side professionals face. Online courses, DCF templates, three-statement models, investing books, and hours spent trying to piece together how professional investors actually think and operate. The courses were useful up to a point. They stopped well short of what is actually required to break into the industry.

The job demands a specialised education that covers the fundamentals that actually drive returns on a buy-side desk: portfolio construction, position sizing, risk management, factor exposure analysis, macro awareness, sector mastery, catalyst mapping, and the discipline of writing an investment thesis a portfolio manager will act on. None of that is taught in a vacuum, and almost none of it is in the courses most aspirants rely on.

The complete curriculum does exist. It is taught inside fund desks, scattered across specialised resources, or locked behind master's programmes that cost a year's salary. For most of the people with the talent to do the work, none of those options are accessible. Deltashark gathers it all in one place, at a price an individual can afford.

What Deltashark set out to build

Deltashark was built to be the platform for buy-side education. A complete system that covers the full curriculum aspiring people need to walk onto a fund desk on day one. Across the three domains of investment management: hedge funds, quantitative finance, and private equity.

Not a simplified version. Not a fractional course. The full curriculum: accounting fundamentals through to portfolio construction, sector mastery, technical interview practice, modelling labs, career preparation, and a curated directory of every firm worth applying to. Paired with original research written by former hedge fund analysts so members can study how professional analysis is actually structured.

One membership, one mission. Everything an aspiring buy-side professional needs to break in, under a single subscription, at a price an individual can afford.

Education that mirrors the job

Most financial education stops at teaching you how to build a model. Deltashark goes further because the role demands far more than modelling.

These are the kinds of questions that define day-one readiness on a buy-side desk. The curriculum, written entirely by professionals with direct industry experience, is built to address them across the three tracks: hedge funds, quantitative finance, and private equity.

Research written by hedge fund professionals

Original research sits alongside the curriculum. Every report is written by a former hedge fund analyst, with the same structure and rigour you would find on an institutional desk. Equity reports cover single-name companies in depth. Macro reports cover rates, inflation, growth, and policy. Sector reports cover competitive dynamics, unit economics, and positioning.

Reading real research is the fastest way to learn how professional analysis is structured. It builds the muscle for writing your own theses, and the interview fluency to stand out with insights beyond what is in the headlines.

A community of people on the same path

Breaking into the buy-side is usually a solo grind. Deltashark gives aspirants the network and support a single individual rarely has access to. The community feed is a members-only space to post questions, share wins and interview experiences, talk through internships and career paths, and learn from peers walking the same route.

Bi-weekly support calls run on top, hosted by Burak. One hour every two weeks for live questions, CV reviews, interview prep, networking, and whatever else comes with working to break in.