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Major League Hacking
Collegiate hackathon league
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- DevOps
- Community
- Cloud Computing
- Kips Bay, New York, NY
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Company mission
MLH's mission is to empower hackers.
Our take
Major League Hacking (MLH) is the official student hackathon league, responsible for over 200 invention competitions per year. As a Certified B Corporation, teaching computer science skills to more than 65,000 students across the world, the company demonstrates a commitment to working for its community as it strives towards innovation.
The MLH community encompasses over 500,000 members globally, empowering future developers to hone their skills for the future. The company has partnered with a number of big players in the tech space, enabling it to improve its events and cater to the evolving space. It has also partnered with Hack Harassment to launch an anti-harassment hack category at all season member events, to help combat online harassment.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company values
- Hackers First: MLH exists to serve hackers, as a group and as individuals. Everyone deserves the opportunity to be a hacker and MLHers foster those opportunities.
- We Take Out the Trash: No task is too small for an MLHer. We do what needs to get done to make things run, even if that means taking out the trash or cleaning up behind other people.
- MLH Provides: As a team, we leverage our resources to accomplish the impossible.
- Learn. Build. Share: Our success is the success of others. It is an MLHer’s responsibility to share their knowledge with the world and help everyone build amazing things.
- Standard of Excellence: We are the professionals. MLHers keep each other accountable to do their best work, down to the smallest detail. No bullshit.
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2021
$3.7m
SEED
Mar 2016
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $4.7m
Leadership
Jonathan Gottfried
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Hacker Union. Was the Director of North America for StartupBus. Former Developer Evangelist at Twilio.
Mike Swift
(Co-Founder & CEO)Investment Partner with the Community Fund VC. Co-founded Hacker League. Former Developer Evangelist at SendGrid.