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Engine releases 2026 Startup Agenda
Today, Engine published the 2026 Startup Policy Agenda, highlighting the policy issues coming up this year that will impact startups.
Engine releases Startup Policy Playbook for 2026
Today, Engine published the 2026 Startup Policy Playbook, highlighting the policy issues coming up this year that will impact startups.
Tech, Trade, and Tariffs: the consequences of erecting barriers to startup success
A look at how punitive trade policy that focuses on the imposition of new tariffs undermines goodwill with trading partners, invites retaliatory trade barriers, and threatens the vitality of digital trade policies relied upon by startups.
Mapping the future: charting the AI ecosystem & a policy blueprint for startup success
Artificial intelligence is a foundational technology driving innovation in every corner of the economy.
Engine Statement regarding Small Business Investment Act of 2025
Engine Statement regarding Small Business Investment Act of 2025
Engine releases 2025 Startup Agenda
Engine released the 2025 Startup Policy Agenda showcasing how smart, thoughtful policy facilitates and encourages startup activity, leading to more innovation and more economic and job growth. The Agenda gives those working on policy an overview of the issues that are currently impacting—and the debates that stand to impact—startups.
Engine releases Startup Policy Playbook for 2025
Engine released the 2025 Startup Policy Playbook to give members of the startup ecosystem—founders, employees, investors, and support organizations—an overview of the policy conversations happening this year and how they can get involved in amplifying the startup voice. There’s lots to do, and lots to do better, and this playbook highlights why shaping innovation-friendly policies matters to startups.
Engine, INCOMPAS File Joint Amici Curiae Brief on the FCC’s 2024 Safeguarding the Open Internet Order
Washington – As the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law plans a hearing Wednesday on the law that enables online services to host user-generated content, diverse organizations from academics to industry to public interest groups sent a letter to Subcommittee leaders. The letter acknowledges that Section 230 is the legal framework that enables anyone to create spaces online where user communities can gather and share content, to the benefit of Internet users and online expression.
Engine releases additional resources on startups and age verification
To help policymakers better understand what these issues mean for startups and their users, we’re releasing an updated version of the report, one-pager, and video explainers of the impacts of age verification and the policy proposals that prompt it.
Engine Statement regarding Senate Tax Vote
Engine Statement on Senate Vote on the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
Engine statement on SCOTUS Decision in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton
Engine statement on SCOTUS Decision in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton
Engine releases ‘Innovation For All’ report
The U.S. startup ecosystem is anchored by the premise that anyone—no matter their race, gender, sexual identity, background, or location—with an idea and the will, can launch a startup and grow a successful company.
Engine releases report on how determining user age impacts startups
How determining user age impacts startups
42 startups and support organizations sign letter supporting strong digital trade policy
A coalition of 42 U.S. startups, investors, and startup support organizations across 18 states sent a letter urging U.S. trade policymakers to support the growth and competitiveness of the startup ecosystem through smart digital trade policy. The letter calls on policymakers to support policies enabling cross-border data flows, making permanent the moratorium on the imposition of customs duties on electronic transmissions, and providing resources to help startups compete abroad.
Engine releases Startup Policy Playbook for 2024
Engine released the 2024 Startup Policy Playbook, to help give members of the startup ecosystem—startup founders and employees, investors, and support organizations—an overview of the policy conversations happening this year and how they can get involved in amplifying the startup voice.
Engine releases 2024 Startup Agenda
Engine released the 2024 Startup Policy Agenda, highlighting for policymakers the issues impacting the startup ecosystem, including the startup companies, investors, and support organizations across the country. The Agenda features startup founders discussing in their own words the obstacles they’ve faced as they launch new and innovative businesses and the ways policies have helped and hurt them.
Engine submitted an amicus brief to SCOTUS in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton
Engine submitted an amicus brief to SCOTUS in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton
Engine elevates the startup voice on acquisitions
Building on Engine’s previous research on the role of acquisitions in the startup ecosystem, Engine today released a report examining the ways that acquisitions are a critical component of the startup ecosystem, featuring over a dozen startup founders, investors, and accelerators.
Engine releases report on Privacy Patchwork Problem
Data privacy has been top of mind for consumers, policymakers, regulators, companies, and entrepreneurs for the past several years, in the wake of broad privacy rules in the EU, and action in several U.S. states. The U.S., which has long had a sectoral approach to privacy, remains without a comprehensive privacy framework, and many states have reacted by proposing, passing, and implementing their own varying—and potentially conflicting—comprehensive privacy laws.