# Major League Hacking

> Major League Hacking is a New York public benefit corporation that standardizes and supports student hackathons, runs remote fellowships and digital learning programs, and helps technology companies earn hands-on adoption among early-career developers. Founded by Mike "Swift" Swift and Jonathan Gottfried, MLH grew from a scrappy league of campus events into a developer community that, after acquiring DEV in 2026, says it reaches 5 million software creators across 100 countries.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Mike Swift (CEO and Co-Founder), Jonathan Gottfried (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 150 people. LinkedIn displayed 147 associated employees in August 2026, closely matching the supplied company estimate of 150; its listed company-size band is 11-50, which may reflect a smaller core full-time team.
- **Products:** MLH Hackathon League, MLH Fellowship, Global Hack Week, Developer Marketing Partnerships, DEV Community
- **Notable:** Built a global hackathon and developer-program network spanning 100 countries., Reported more than 150,000 hackers and 12,500 projects across 184 hackathons and other programs in the 2025 season., Mike Swift and Jonathan Gottfried were named to Forbes' 2017 30 Under 30 list in Education.

## Products & services

- **MLH Hackathon League** — Membership, standards, promotion, coaching, judging support, sponsor challenges, tools and emergency assistance for student-run hackathons.
- **MLH Fellowship** — A fully remote 12-week internship alternative in which small pods work on open source or partner projects with mentors and receive stipends.
- **Global Hack Week** — Recurring online weeks of technical challenges, live sessions, project building and community networking.
- **Developer Marketing Partnerships** — Programs that put sponsor tools into developers’ hands across events, challenges and learning experiences, with participation and feedback measurement.
- **DEV Community** — An online publishing and discussion community for software creators, acquired by MLH to connect hands-on programs with persistent, searchable knowledge sharing.
- **TechTogether** — Gender-focused hackathons and community programs designed to improve representation and access in the hackathon ecosystem.

## Achievements

- Built a global hackathon and developer-program network spanning 100 countries.
- Reported more than 150,000 hackers and 12,500 projects across 184 hackathons and other programs in the 2025 season.
- Mike Swift and Jonathan Gottfried were named to Forbes' 2017 30 Under 30 list in Education.
- Became a Certified B Corporation in 2016 and operates as a public benefit corporation.
- Launched the paid remote MLH Fellowship with GitHub in 2020 after widespread internship cancellations.
- Acquired TechTogether in 2022 to expand gender-focused hackathon programming.
- Acquired DEV in 2026, creating a combined community MLH describes as 5 million software creators.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — MLH acquired DEV, bringing its events and fellowships together with DEV's online publishing community and the open source Forem platform.
- **2025-10** — MLH announced a Google Cloud Gemini partnership focused on AI-native engineering education.
- **2025-07** — MLH launched its 2026 Hackathon Season after reporting more than 150,000 hackers and 12,500 projects during the prior season.
- **2022-05** — MLH acquired TechTogether and joined the inaugural SHRM Labs WorkplaceTech Accelerator cohort.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mlh.com/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/major-league-hacking
- Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/mlhacks
- GitHub: https://github.com/MLH
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/majorleaguehacking
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlhacks
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MajorLeagueHacking
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorleaguehacking

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Last updated: 2026-08-21