Washington, D.C. – TechNet, the national, bipartisan network of innovation economy CEOs and senior executives, today welcomed three new members: Nextdoor, Chegg, and Swimply. TechNet has now added 12 members in 2022.
“Nextdoor, Chegg, and Swimply are helping educate, empower, and connect communities through technology,” said Linda Moore, TechNet President and CEO. “We’re thrilled to add these dynamic companies to the TechNet family and look forward to working with them to advance policies that grow our economy and improve our lives.”
About Nextdoor: Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Kindness is core to their purpose: to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby – neighbors, businesses, and public services. Nextdoor believes connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 285,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is based in San Francisco. For additional information and images: nextdoor.com/newsroom.
About Chegg: Millions of people all around the world Learn with Chegg. Their mission is to improve learning and learning outcomes by putting students first. They support life-long learners starting with their academic journey and extending into their careers. The Chegg platform provides products and services to support learners to help them better understand their academic course materials, and also provides personal and professional development skills training, to help them achieve their learning goals. Chegg is a publicly held company based in Santa Clara, California.
About Swimply: Swimply is a marketplace that connects owners of underutilized spaces with people seeking to gather, swim and escape locally. The company is trailblazing the experiential-based sharing category and creating an entirely new income stream for homeowners with underutilized spaces and pools that are otherwise used just 15 percent of the time. For swimmers, Swimply is disrupting the multi-billion dollar aquatic space and providing an option for the 96 percent of Americans that do not have access to a pool. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles. Swimply is backed by Norwest Ventures and other notable angels.