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Phone: (512) 964-3784
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Fast Facts

Tech CU Highlights

• More than $4 billion in assets, making it one of the twenty largest credit unions in California
• More than 130,000 members
• Founded on May 27, 1960
• Since 2017, S&P Global Market Intelligence has named Tech CU as one of the top three best-performing credit unions with assets of $500 million or more in California and one of the top 20 nationally.

Brief History

We were founded on May 27, 1960, by a group of forward-thinking employees at Fairchild Semiconductor (the credit union was initially called Fairchild Semiconductor Federal Credit Union). By 1970, we had 6,320 members and $3.5 million in assets. The 1980s were a decade of great expansion in Silicon Valley and pivotal to our growth. We changed our name to “Technology Federal Credit Union” and opened our field of membership to employees of tech companies — growing assets to $50 million.

In 1996, we were among the first financial institutions in the country to have a web page. We again changed our name to “Technology Credit Union (Tech CU)” and began offering a unique “Anytime: Anywhere” delivery system allowing members to access their account information from home — via telephone or online.

Today, we are among the top 1 percent of the nation’s largest credit unions with 10 full-service branches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and more than $3.5 billion in assets. We serve more than 130,000 members — including employees of such companies as Tesla, eBay, Applied Materials, Nvidia and Facebook. Search TechCU@Work Employers.

We consistently achieve high marks for our customer satisfaction and maintain a 5-star rating from Bauer Financial, the nation’s largest independent rating service for financial institutions. With innovative products and services, mobile and online banking, 65,000+ fee-free ATMs worldwide, and convenient branch access to our financial experts, we are a credit union who has our members' best interests at heart.  

Products and Services

We provide innovative financial products for all stages of our members’ lives, including personal banking, wealth management, private banking, commercial lending and business banking.

• Personal Banking: Checking, savings, consumer loans (including: car loans, personal loans and lines of credit, credit cards and mortgage products — home loans, investment and apartment loans, construction loans, home equity lines of credit, home equity loans), wire transfers, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Global Members services (including: CreditStart, new-to-the-country auto loans and credit cards, foreign remittance from XOOM® and international wires), Online Banking, Bill Pay and Mobile Banking
• Tech Financial Management* and Private Banking: Retirement and financial planning, investment planning (stock option and tax-advantage investing), transfers/rollovers of retirement assets (IRA and 401(k)), funding a child’s education (including 529 College Savings Plans), estate planning, insurance for individuals and businesses, business and investment real estate loans, and stock-secured lines of credit and stock-secured term loans
• Commercial Lending and Business Banking: Checking, savings, CDs, money market, credit cards, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), wire transfers, loans and lines of credit (including: SBA, commercial real estate, construction and industrial, mixed-use, multi-family, wholesale mortgage, business lines of credit and asset-based lending), Online Banking, nonprofit banking, retirement planning, payroll processing and small business services

Headquarters

2010 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95131-2018
(408) 451-9111 or (800) 553-0880 Main

Branches

San Jose, Campbell, Santa Teresa, Milpitas, Fremont, Dublin, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Palo Alto and San Francisco. See branch addresses and directions.

Members include:

• Anyone who lives, works, worships, or attends school in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties
• Employees of TechCU@Work Employers
• Family members of current Tech CU members
• Members of our many affiliated organizations including: the Financial Fitness Association, the Northern California Human Resource Association (NCHRA), or the San Jose State University Alumni Association (SJSUAA)

Tech CU Logos

Have you ever wondered about our logo — what it is and how it was chosen? Some popular guesses are that it’s a gear or a pinwheel. But actually, it’s neither. It’s even received a couple of facelifts during our 50+ years in Silicon Valley. So, what is it?

We were founded in 1960 by a group of employees from Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp (today’s Fairchild Semiconductor). Our logo represents the most important part of a camera — the aperture.

An aperture is the opening that controls the amount of light that passes through a lens. It’s what brings about the clarity and sharpness of a photograph — enabling a photographer to achieve the best possible results. Our founders chose this to symbolize their hopes and vision for a new credit union.

Just as the aperture adjusts to changing light to achieve the best possible results, if you’re open to possibilities and guidance, Tech CU will help you pursue your vision of financial success.

To download these logos please right click on the link and select "Save As" to save to your computer.

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- Gradient Color With Tagline

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- White With Tagline