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Extern
Professional Experience - Anywhere, Anytime
About Extern
At Extern, we’re solving the experience gap. Extern created the remote Externship, a skill-building work experience that is easier for students to access, and easier for companies to run, than an internship. Our mission is to help anyone discover and launch their career through professional experiences available anywhere at any time. Since 2020, we’ve created and powered Externships on behalf of companies from Fortune 500s to startups that have enabled tens of thousands of students to build real experience and open doors to incredible opportunity. After spending $100K on average for a 4-year degree, graduates find that almost 40% of entry level jobs on Linkedin required 3+ years of work experience. Internships are how many college students get this kind of experience, but the demand for good internships outstrips the supply. Internship programs are difficult to scale, they favor students who already have social capital, and they’re time-consuming for employers to run. Externships are short, online, project-based work experiences that employers can offer to hundreds of students using less resource and employee time than it would take to support an intern. Extern makes the complex process of running an Externship completely turnkey with software and industry experts which in turn makes professional experience more accessible to more students. By making work experience more accessible, Extern is driving the rapid mobility and upskilling needed for a new economy. We envision a world where anyone can access work experience as a form of education – no matter their background, experience, or socio-economic status. Come join our movement to reshape work, education, and credentialing for future generations with the Externship. Backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Launch Fund, University Ventures, and Learn Capital.
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People
Extern employee David Gyamfi completed the Energy Innovation Capital VC externship at Northeastern University and became an Extern Ambassador representing over 2,000 alumni across 150+ countries.
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Extern employee David Gyamfi became an Extern Ambassador representing over 2,000 alumni across 150+ countries and helped drive applications for 15+ global externships.
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Research & Knowledge
Extern team member Bifei Wang mapped sports internships for summer 2027 into a complete guide for prepping before applications go live
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Externs shared news about Katherine Tran's Amazon Fulfillment Center externship and community responses.
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Extern is offering an externship opportunity for detail-oriented individuals to research AI law regulations and turn them into compliance recommendations at The Home Depot's legal team.
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Presence & Recognition
Extern founder and CEO Matt Wilkerson was named one of The Social Capital Insider's Top 5 CEOs
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Partnerships
Extern has a new partner joining the roster.
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People
Extern hired Michael Deniz to the integrated investment team at Horizon Media, managing end-to-end media plans, campaign pacing, and budget actualizations for the Vistra Corp. account.
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Extern hired Michael Deniz as an external market research externship to the Beats by Dre market research team, where he worked on sentiment analysis, Gen Z consumer trends, competitor benchmarking, and a full data-driven marketing strategy presentation.
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People
Extern opened 300+ internships across 231 companies across 14 industries linked straight to the apply page.
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People
Extern launched the Health-Ade Consumer Behavior & Insights Externship, which is live and covers a six-week experience for participants to build research surveys, run them through a Manychat outreach flow, analyze results in Google Sheets with Anthropic Claude, benchmark the competition using Perplexity, and package the findings into a presentation for Lissa Crisp
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