The tech backlash against Indiana is growing as companies pull out of a big conference there

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced last week that he was pulling his company out from Indiana effective immediately — including withdrawing from its sponsorship of Indy Big Data — in protest of the RFRA, and called on others to do the same. 

EMC and Cloudera, both companies with huge investments in the data industry, are following in Benioff's footsteps and withdrawing their own IndyBigData sponsorships, per these tweets over the weekend from EMC President Jeremy Burton and Cloudera VP of Marketing Alan Saldich:

Smaller companies like Pivotal, a data and development company spun out from EMC, and Platfora, a popular data analytics startup, also announced their withdrawals of support from the event:

Indy Big Data organizers took to the event's Facebook page earlier today to issue a statement in support of those sponsors who pulled their sponsorships and calling on the Indiana state government for change:

“Over the past 48 hours we have had seven national sponsors back out of the Indy Big Data Conference 2015 as a direct result of the Religious Freedom Act. This law is having an immediate and definite negative impact on technology in the state of Indiana. The Indy Big Data Conference wants lawmakers in the state of Indiana to know and acknowledge that this is a real case that is happening now, not a conference to be impacted months or years from now, and is calling for an immediate correction to this law in order to prohibit discrimination in Indiana on any grounds.”

Not every sponsor who pulled out of the event issued a statement. Amazon Web Services confirmed to Business Insider in an email that it's no longer involved in Indy Big Data.

This news continues the tech industry's pushback against the act. Apple CEO Tim Cook has also taken a strong stand against the Religious Freedom Act in an editorial for the Washington Post. Angie's List has also halted expansion plans in Indiana in protest over this law.