Austin TX. $42B endowment (UT System via UTIMCO — largest public university system endowment). Cockrell School of Engineering. McCombs School of Business. LBJ School of Public Affairs. IC² Institute — tech commercialization and entrepreneurship. Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Core campus for Austin tech ecosystem — Dell Medical, Apple, Tesla, Google all nearby. Applied Research Laboratories (ARL) — underwater acoustics, defense.

Managed WordPress hosting platform. Austin TX. Silver Lake Partners. $290M+ revenue. 200,000+ customers. Notable 2024: public legal battle with Automattic/Matt Mullenweg over WordPress trademark.

Austin early-stage VC. $655M+ AUM. Most active Texas VC 7 consecutive years. Founded by Bill Wood and Morgan Flager. 75+ companies, 30+ acquisitions, 4 IPOs. Notable: WP Engine, The Zebra, Silicon Labs.

Developing the Aalo Pod, a modular liquid-metal-cooled small nuclear reactor targeting AI data-center power; a prototype unit at Idaho National Laboratory reached criticality in July 2026.

Emergency communication and mass notification platform. Austin TX. Edison Partners + General Atlantic. Acquired by EverCommerce 2023.

Streaming TV for businesses — bar, gym, restaurant ambient content. Austin TX. Mark Cuban + Valor Equity. $1B+ valuation 2022. 55,000+ venues.

Austin seed/Series A. B2B software, APIs, frontier tech. Co-founders: Chris Shonk, Brad Bentz, Danielle Weiss Allen. $250K–$5M. Notable: AlertMedia, ZenBusiness.

Austin startup hub, accelerator, most active investor in Texas since 2010. ~2,000 investments. Founder & CEO: Joshua Baer. Funds: All Access ($100K for 1%), Texas Fund, Fellowship Fund. Austin+Dallas+Houston+SA+DC.

De-extinction and genomics company. $10.2B valuation Feb 2026. Co-founders: Ben Lamm and George Church. Successfully de-extincted the dire wolf Apr 2025. Backed by a16z. One of Austin's highest-profile unicorns.

Austin growth-stage B2B software VC. Targets Elsewhere Outliers outside traditional VC hubs. Founded by Chris Pacitti, John Thornton, Sam Kentor. $10M–$50M. Requires 40%+ revenue growth.

Halcyon — anti-ransomware and cyber-resilience platform. Founded 2021 by Jon Miller (CEO) and Ryan Smith; Austin & San Diego. ~$190M raised, $1B+ valuation; Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners with Bain Capital Ventures, SYN Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Dropbox Ventures.

Manufactures high-efficiency electric motors and integrated motor controls using patented printed-circuit-board stator technology.

Intellectible is an Austin-based AI software startup that provides specialized AI tools for enterprise service providers, including scoped projects, visual workflows, document libraries, and AI-assisted proposal writing. The company raised a $3 million seed round in June 2026.

Austin premier early-stage VC. $500M AUM. Texas-focused. Co-founders: Krishna Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant (ex-Austin Ventures). 60+ investments. Notable: DISCO (NYSE:LAW), Opcity (acq. NewsCorp), Stack Engine (acq. Oracle).

NinjaOne — unified endpoint management and IT operations platform (40k+ organizations). Founded 2013 by Sal Sferlazza and Chris Matarese (as NinjaRMM); Austin, TX. ~$12.3B valuation; investors incl. Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, NEA, CapitalG, Wellington Management, Hedosophia, Washington Harbour.

Physical security intelligence platform for enterprise. McLean VA. JMI Equity Series C $230M Aug 2025. Consolidates physical threat data — converged security intelligence.

Largest VC firm born in Texas. $1B+ AUM. All returns go to a philanthropic family. Business Software and Healthcare Technology. Seed to Series B. 55+ portfolio companies, 20+ exits including Alkami.

Designs and manufactures autonomous, uncrewed surface naval vessels for the US Navy and other defense customers.

Cybersecurity — exposed credential monitoring and identity threat protection. Austin TX. Scout Ventures + M12. $100M ARR.

Striveworks — operational AI/MLOps platform (Chariot) for model build, deploy and monitoring in national-security and regulated environments. Founded 2018 (CEO James Rebesco; co-founders Anthony Manganiello, Eric Korman); Austin, TX. Investors: Centana Growth Partners (lead), Canvas Ventures, Washington Harbour.