CALinnovates

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{{Infobox company

| name = California Innovates

| type = Non-Profit

| founded = 2010

| founder = Lane Kasselman

| hq_location = San Francisco

| hq_location_city = California

| hq_location_country = United States

| area_served = California, United States

| website = {{url|www.calinnovates.org}}

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CALinnovates is a membership-based organization, including AT&T and Uber, that advances pro-telecom and pro-contractor-work positions at the federal and state level, including social media campaigns opposing net neutrality.{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/19/att_california_net_neutrality_legislation/|title=AT&T sends in startup shill to shake up Cali's net neutrality safeguards|website=theregister.co.uk}} {{cite web|url=https://capitolweekly.net/protecting-prop-22-helps-protect-democracy/|title=Protecting Prop 22 helps protect democracy|website=capitolweekly.net}} While the group does not disclose its funding sources, AT&T paid the group $100,000 for lobbying in California while the legislature debated a net neutrality bill, which CalInnovates and AT&T oppose.{{cite web|url=https://readsludge.com/2018/06/19/att-tied-to-supposed-startup-group-against-net-neutrality-in-california/|title=AT&T Tied to Supposed Startup Group Against Net Neutrality}}

It was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.{{cite news|url=http://www.govtech.com/fs/California-Cities-Fight-Cell-Antenna-Bill.html|title=California Cities Fight Cell Antenna Bill|last1=Giwargis|first1=Ramona|date=6 July 2017|work=www.govtech.com|accessdate=18 May 2018|language=en}} The organization's founder Lane Kasselman left shortly after founding the group to take a public relations job at AT&T.{{cite news|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/mysterious-campaign-appears-to-be-latest-salvo-in-net-neutrality-battle

|title=Mysterious Campaign Appears to be the Latest Salvo in Net Neutrality Battle|language=en-us}}