HuskyTech

Name

HuskyTech

Website

https://huskytech.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

HuskyTech is a non-profit University of Washington Registered Student Organization, founded 2017, that helps UW students enter the tech industry through public events, selective membership, and a spring mentorship program connecting students with industry professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Student Career Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Organizations & Club Administration (EDALAHAB)

Keywords

• Student organization
• Career mentorship
• Tech industry events
• Student membership program
• Workshops training

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Core offering

HuskyTech is a University of Washington Registered Student Organization that runs three interconnected programs to help students transition into the technology industry: public Events open to all interested students, a selective Membership program granting priority access to events and resources, and a spring Mentorship program that pairs students directly with industry professionals. The organization's purpose is to provide community programming, workshops, and industry connections for students pursuing tech careers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Events Public events program open to all University of Washington students interested in the technology industry, offering sponsored, large-scale gatherings to learn about tech careers and connect with peers.
• Membership Selective membership program granting priority access to HuskyTech events and resources, including personalized member workshops, designed for students looking to advance their tech career journey.
• Mentorship Spring mentorship program that pairs University of Washington students directly with industry professionals to receive personalized guidance for entering the technology industry.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

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Direct peers

• Major League Hacking: Major League Hacking is the official student hackathon league and runs university-level programming, events, and fellowships for student technologists. It competes for the same UW student audience and corporate sponsorship dollars as HuskyTech.
• Google Developer Student Clubs: GDSC is a Google-sponsored network of university student tech clubs running workshops, events, and mentorship. It is present at UW and offers an overlapping student-facing programming model to HuskyTech.
• CodePath: CodePath is a non-profit delivering industry-driven tech education and career training to university students from underrepresented backgrounds. It targets the same student segment and addresses the same tech-career-readiness pain points as HuskyTech.
• Rewriting the Code: Rewriting the Code is a non-profit providing mentorship, community, and career programming for university women in tech. Its university mentorship model and career-readiness mission directly mirror HuskyTech's core offering.
• ColorStack: ColorStack is a student-led non-profit supporting Black and Latinx computer science students at universities through community, career support, and mentorship. It competes for the same UW tech-student audience and similar sponsorship channels.

Emerging players

• Built By Girls: Built By Girls is a non-profit preparing the next generation of women to enter tech through mentorship and industry access. Its university-focused career-prep programming parallels HuskyTech's mentorship pillar.
• https://huskytech.org/dev/color: /dev/color is a non-profit community for Black software engineers and technologists with university programming and mentorship. It overlaps with HuskyTech's student-to-industry bridging model but focuses specifically on Black tech talent.

Broad incumbents

• University of Washington Career & Internship Center: The UW central career center offers tech-industry career advising, fairs, and employer connections to all UW students. It is the institutional incumbent whose generalist service HuskyTech specifically tailors for the tech track.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Student Chapters: ACM supports university student chapters globally, including at UW, providing tech talks, networking, and career resources. As the established incumbent academic computing society, it competes for the same student audience and corporate sponsorship.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HuskyTech
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/husky-tech

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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