Washington
— TechNet, the national, bipartisan network of innovation economy
CEOs and senior executives, today announced the addition of five new members: the
Austin Tech Alliance, Green Charge Networks, Postmates, Rubicon Project, and
Sunrun.

“We
are delighted to welcome the Austin Tech Alliance, Green Charge Networks,
Postmates, Rubicon Project, and Sunrun to our network,”
said Linda Moore, president and CEO of TechNet.
“As these companies and organizations
demonstrate, technology today is more than just a sector, it is enabling innovation,
economic opportunity, and job creation in every corner of our country. We look forward to working with these new members
to ensure their voices are heard in the important policy debates taking place across
the country.”

New members include, in alphabetical
order:

  • Austin Tech Alliance,
    based in Austin, Texas, is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting civic engagement
    in Austin’s tech sector. Founded by
    Joshua Baer and Dan Graham in 2016, ATA focuses on educating the tech grassroots
    on policies that impact them, advocating for tech-forward solutions to civic
    challenges, and activating the tech community to speak up, participate, and
    vote.
  • Green Charge Networks,
    an ENGIE company based in Santa Clara, California, has been designing and
    deploying commercial energy storage since 2009, with systems installed
    throughout the United States. A
    subsidiary of ENGIE, the largest Independent Power Producer in the world, Green
    Charge’s mission is to use energy storage to help power the world efficiently
    and sustainably. Green Charge’s
    ecosystem of solar, EV charging, and energy efficiency partners allows its
    customers to combine energy storage and renewables easily and economically.
  • Postmates,
    headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operating in more than 300 cities
    across the United States, is an innovative, on-demand logistics platform that
    enables anyone to have anything delivered to their door step within minutes. Founded in 2011 by Bastian Lehmann, Sean
    Plaice, and Sam Street, the company is generating new heights of commerce and
    sales for small business owners; increasing the productivity of customers
    looking to juggle their ever-busy schedules; and building new bridges within
    vast metropolitan areas by connecting the offerings of one neighborhood with
    another. By connecting customers and
    businesses to a robust, national network of deliverers known as “Postmates,”
    since 2011, the company has facilitated the delivery of more than $1 billion in
    goods and merchandise across its platform. And with its fleet of Postmates earning
    taxable incomes, the capital generated through the mobile application is being
    reinvested in the economy to do everything from pay down debt, to start a small
    business, or even enroll in college classes.
  • Rubicon Project,
    based in Los Angeles, California, pioneered advertising automation technology to
    enable the world’s leading brands, content creators, and application developers
    to trade and protect trillions of advertising requests each month and to improve
    the advertising experiences of people. Founded
    in 2007, Rubicon Project’s mission is to keep the Internet free and open and fuel
    its growth by making it easy and safe to buy and sell advertising.
  • Sunrun,
    based in San Francisco, California, is the largest dedicated residential solar company
    in the United States with a mission to create a planet run by the sun. Since establishing the solar as a service model
    in 2007, Sunrun continues to lead the industry in providing clean energy to homeowners
    with little to no upfront cost and at a savings to traditional electricity. The company designs, installs, finances, insures,
    monitors, and maintains the solar panels on a homeowner’s roof, while families receive
    predictable pricing for 20 years or more.

TechNet’s network of 71 members
includes Apple, Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Lyft, Airbnb, Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bloom Energy, eBay, and Nasdaq, among others. A full list of TechNet members is available here.

About
TechNet

TechNet
is the national, bipartisan network of technology CEOs and senior executives that
promotes the growth of the innovation economy by advocating a targeted policy agenda
at the federal and 50-state level. TechNet’s
diverse membership includes dynamic startups to the most iconic companies on the
planet and represents more than 2.5 million employees in the fields of information
technology, e-commerce, advanced energy, biotechnology, venture capital, and finance. TechNet has offices in Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley, San Francisco,
Sacramento, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Albany, and Tallahassee.