# L3VLUP

> Practitioner-led finance career platform. 1:1 mentoring with Surojit Chakraverti (Founder & CIO of Third Wave Capital, formerly Citi Industrials M&A and Rothschild Healthcare M&A), a global structured-programmes tracker, intensive bootcamps and AI-native career tools. 1,000+ candidates coached into offers at Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Citadel, KKR, Apollo, Morgan Stanley and beyond.

L3VLUP serves candidates and early-mid-career professionals across seven verticals: Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Equity Research, Corporate Development, Quant, and FinTech Sales. Coverage spans US, UK, EU and Asia.

## Products

- [Work With Suro](https://www.l3vlup.com/advisory): 1:1 advisory tiers from a $450 Career Strategy Diagnostic up to a $3,000 ten-session retainer, with a featured $750 Stock Pitch & Case Review for buyside candidates.
- [L3VLUP Inner Circle](https://www.l3vlup.com/inner-circle): $79/month membership including premium newsletter, private community, monthly Office Hours with Suro, and curated role intros sourced from Surojit's practitioner network.
- [Structured Programmes Tracker](https://www.l3vlup.com/tracker): Global tracker for Spring Weeks, Summer Internships, Industrial Placements, Graduate Programmes and MBA hires across IB, PE, HF, ER, Corp Dev and Quant. Every tracked programme has its own page (deadline, status, prep links) under /tracker/[programme].
- [L3VLUP Skills](https://www.l3vlup.com/skills): 12 runnable AI research workflows (Earnings Teardown, Comps Set Builder, LBO Sanity Check, IC Memo Builder and more) built on the Delegate / Verify / Decide operating model — output as source-cited research notes.
- [Career Diagnostic](https://www.l3vlup.com/diagnostic): 1:1 career strategy session with the founder.
- [CV Studio](https://www.l3vlup.com/cv-studio): Free in-browser CV builder, scorer and job matcher. Structured editor, ATS-safe templates, live 0-100 scoring tuned for finance recruiting, matching against live tracked roles, PDF and Word export. No signup; nothing leaves the browser.
- [Cover Letter Studio](https://www.l3vlup.com/cover-letter-studio): Free in-browser cover letter builder and scorer. Five guided paragraphs each answering one screener question, three block-letter templates, a live 0-100 score covering one-page length, opening strength, firm-specific evidence, quantified claims, cliché detection and sentence variety, plus firm matching against live tracked roles with deadlines. PDF and Word export. No signup; nothing leaves the browser.
- [CV Review](https://www.l3vlup.com/services/cv-review): Human CV review, $25. Written margin-note feedback on structure, impact bullets, formatting and ATS-readability, returned within 48 hours by email. Reviewed personally by Surojit Chakraverti (ex-Citi, Rothschild, Morgan Stanley and hedge funds) — not an AI score.
- [Cover Letter Review](https://www.l3vlup.com/services/cover-letter-review): Line-by-line human cover letter review, $50. Argument structure, firm-specific tailoring, tone, and a rewritten opening paragraph as a worked example, returned within 48 hours. Reviewed personally by Surojit Chakraverti.
- [Free Tools](https://www.l3vlup.com/tools): Career Readiness Score, Networking Email Generator, CV Bullet Improver, Stock Pitch Builder and the upcoming L3VLUP AI Mentor.
- [Become a Financial Modelling Pro](https://www.l3vlup.com/financial-modelling-course): A 2-day financial modelling sprint, $999. Six modules: model architecture and best-practice conventions; driver-based revenue and expense builds; working capital and the cash conversion cycle; capex, depreciation and the fixed-asset roll-forward; linking the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow; balancing the model and error-proofing. Build a complete three-statement model from a blank workbook. Cohorts capped at 20.
- [Bootcamps](https://www.l3vlup.com/#bootcamps): Become a Financial Modelling Pro ($999, 2-day sprint), Buyside Recruitment Bootcamp ($2,000, 8 weeks) and Analyst-to-Associate Accelerator ($1,700, 6 weeks). Live, small-cohort.
- [Games](https://www.l3vlup.com/games): Daily finance puzzles (Correlated, Reconcile), arcade Power-Ups, and interview desk drills (paper LBO trainer, mental math gym) — free, no sign-up.

## Guides

- [PE On-Cycle Recruiting Timeline 2026](https://www.l3vlup.com/guides/private-equity-on-cycle-recruiting-timeline): When private equity on-cycle recruiting starts, how headhunters work, and how early to prepare.
- [Off-Cycle Private Equity Recruiting in the US](https://www.l3vlup.com/guides/off-cycle-private-equity-recruiting-us): How off-cycle PE hiring works, where roles come from, and outreach strategy.
- [Hedge Fund Stock Pitch Template and Framework](https://www.l3vlup.com/guides/hedge-fund-stock-pitch-template): The structure PMs actually evaluate, from thesis and variant perception to catalysts and risk.
- [Spring Week vs Summer Internship vs Industrial Placement](https://www.l3vlup.com/guides/spring-week-vs-summer-internship-vs-industrial-placement): Which early finance programme is which, who each is for, and how they ladder to a full-time offer.
- [All guides](https://www.l3vlup.com/guides): 30 practitioner-written guides covering PE recruiting timelines, paper LBOs, DCF/comps/M&A/LBO interview questions, Superdays, assessment centres, cover letters, networking templates, the analyst-to-associate decision, and more. Every guide carries an author byline and update date.
- [Finance Recruiting & Technical Glossary](https://www.l3vlup.com/glossary): 150+ plain-English definitions — paper LBO, variant perception, on-cycle, MoIC, IRR, EV, fulcrum security and more. Each term has its own page under /glossary/[term].

## Resources

- [Finance Prep Reading List](https://www.l3vlup.com/resources): Practitioner-curated free resources on LBO modelling, paper LBOs, DCF valuation and accounting analysis, including hand-picked articles from Multiple Expansion and The Footnotes Analyst, annotated with why each matters for interviews.

## Career path pages

- [Investment Banking Interview Prep](https://www.l3vlup.com/career/investment-banking-interview-prep)
- [Private Equity Interview Prep](https://www.l3vlup.com/career/private-equity-interview-prep)
- [Hedge Fund Interview Prep](https://www.l3vlup.com/career/hedge-fund-interview-prep)
- [Equity Research Interview Prep](https://www.l3vlup.com/career/equity-research-interview-prep)
- [Product Management Interview Prep](https://www.l3vlup.com/career/product-management-interview-prep)
- [Software Engineering Interview Prep](https://www.l3vlup.com/career/software-engineering-interview-prep)

## Founder

- [Surojit Chakraverti](https://www.surojitchakraverti.com) — Founder & CIO, [Third Wave Capital](https://www.3wavecap.com); author of [2nd Order Thoughts](https://www.2ot.co). Prior experience across Citi Industrials M&A, Rothschild Healthcare M&A, and hedge fund investing. Has trained professionals at investment banks, private equity firms, corporate finance teams and asset managers.

## Optional

- [Newsletter](https://www.l3vlup.com/newsletter)
- [Terms](https://www.l3vlup.com/terms)