BankerMentor
Founded
2019
Cohorts run
40+
Alumni
600+
Maximum cohort size
15

Our story

BankerMentor started in 2019 with a simple observation. Candidates for banking and investing roles had no shortage of guides and question lists, but very few had spent real time with a senior banker or investor before walking into an interview.

We built small cohorts around that gap: a technical curriculum taught by practitioners, and a senior mentor from a leading firm working directly with each group.

Since then we have run more than 40 cohorts, and our 600+ alumni now work at investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and private equity and venture capital firms.

What sets us apart

Three commitments we have kept since the first cohort.

Senior practitioners teach in person

Every cohort has its own senior mentor: an Executive Director, Principal or more senior practitioner from a leading bank or investment firm, who leads sixteen hours of sessions and stays in contact with the group.

Fifteen seats, never more

Every cohort is capped at fifteen participants. Small groups mean every model, pitch and interview answer is reviewed individually, and every participant knows their mentor by name.

Interview prep plus deal practice

A curriculum built on real interview and written-test questions reported by our students, alongside practice modules on IPOs, follow-on offerings, due diligence and deal negotiation.

Where our alumni work

600+ alumni across the four tracks. A selection of the firms they have joined:

Investment Banking

  • Goldman Sachs
  • Morgan Stanley
  • UBS
  • Barclays
  • Deutsche Bank
  • CICC
  • Macquarie
  • Evercore

Investment Management & Equity Research

  • BlackRock
  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Capital Group
  • Man Group
  • Schroders
  • Matthews Asia

Hedge Funds

  • Citadel
  • Millennium Management
  • Bridgewater Associates
  • Marshall Wace
  • Brevan Howard

Private Equity & Venture Capital

  • KKR
  • Blackstone
  • The Carlyle Group
  • TPG
  • General Atlantic
  • Insight Partners
  • Atomico
  • IDG Capital
  • CICC Capital

Three financial centres

Our participants recruit mainly in New York, London and Hong Kong, and our mentors work across all three.

New York

Bulge-bracket and elite boutique banks, the largest buyout firms and multi-manager hedge funds.

London

Europe's centre for banking, asset management and systematic and macro hedge funds.

Hong Kong

The gateway for Asian capital markets, cross-border M&A and regional private equity.

Admission to every cohort is by application.

Send us your CV and a short personal statement. We read every one.

Apply for a cohort