For employers, funds and search mandates
At the early-career end we teach and coach them, and we can tell you what they can actually do rather than what their CV says. At the senior end, Third Wave Capital runs partner-led search across finance and AI. Both start with the same conversation.
A candidate database tells you who applied. What is useful is knowing who can build a debt schedule that ties, who can hold a valuation argument under questioning, and who started preparing six months before anyone asked them to.
Students and analysts preparing for banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research, quantitative trading, product management and engineering. UK and US cycles, tracked against the calendar the firms actually recruit on.
Candidates work through 27 timed drills that mark a build line by line: a paper LBO, a one-hour modelling test, a three-statement walkthrough, a written case. A graded attempt is a better signal of readiness than a line on a CV.
University finance and investment societies use the deadline tracker and run a practitioner session with us each term. Introductions come from people we have taught or coached, not from a scraped list.
Nobody is introduced without being asked first, and nothing is shared beyond what a candidate agrees to share. The 57 guides, the 187-term glossary and the live deadline tracker stay free and open, which is why the network renews itself every cycle.
The first two run through L3VLUP and are about the start of a career. The second two run through Third Wave Capital and are about the middle and the top of one. If you are not sure which you need, say what the seat is and we will tell you.
Analyst, graduate and internship hiring. We introduce candidates we have taught or coached, with the drills they have completed and where they are strong and weak, so a first conversation starts past the screening questions.
Put your team in front of a society for an evening, or attach your name to a drill the candidates you want are already sitting. Employer brand at the point a student is deciding what to aim at.
Senior mandates across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, asset management and AI. Partner-led end to end, sourced from a working network rather than a database, and discreet where the mandate requires it.
Third Wave Capital Executive SearchA placement paired with AI-native workflows built around the role, so the hire arrives with more capacity than the seat had before. Where a function does not need a full-time seat, those workflows can be built without a search.
How the counterpart worksThird Wave Capital is an independent, AI-native investment firm running a long-short strategy across global healthcare and technology, alongside a corporate training practice and an executive search practice. Same operator, same network, a different end of the career.
Search there is partner-led from the first conversation through to placement, takes on a limited number of mandates at a time, and sources from relationships built at the desk rather than from an anonymous database. Confidential mandates stay outside the public market unless you decide otherwise.
The distinctive engagement is the one that does not exist elsewhere: a placement paired with AI-native workflows built around the role, so the person arrives with more capacity than the seat had before. Where a function does not need a full-time seat, those workflows can be built without a hire at all.
Tell us the role, the level and the timeline. If it is early-career, we come back with people. If it is a search, it goes to Third Wave Capital and a partner picks it up.