This is a list of notable companies based in the

Austin metropolitan area The Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan statistical area (or Greater Austin) is a five-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget. The metropolitan area is situated in Cen ...

Fortune 500

(rankings as of 2021) * Dell Technologies (28) *

Oracle An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The wor ...

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Tesla Inc. Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles ( electric cars and trucks), battery energy storage from home to gr ...

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Advertising

Door Number 3 Door Number 3 is an independent brand development and integrated advertising agency located in Austin, Texas, United States. The agency is known for creating and integrating marketing that helps challenger brands topple their giants. The agenc ...

* GSD&M * LatinWorks *

LIN Media LIN Media was an American holding company founded in 1994 that operated 43 television stations. All except one were affiliates of the six major U.S. television networks. One of the remaining stations was a low powered weather station in In ...

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Media General Media General was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired ''The Richmond Daily Times'', which later became ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch ...

)-Shutdown * McGarrah Jessee * R/GA * RetailMeNot * Rock Candy Media * T3 (The Think Tank)

Aerospace and air travel

Astrotech Corporation Astrotech Corporation, formerly Spacehab Inc., is a technology incubator headquartered in Austin, Texas. Astrotech uses technology sourced internally and from research institutions, government laboratories, and universities to fund, manage and ...

* Austin Express- Shutdown * Emerald Air-Closed

Architecture

* Dick Clark Architecture * Lundgren and Maurer-Closed in the 80s no successor

Automotive

* Tesla

Beauty

Beardbrand Beardbrand is an American men's grooming company based in Austin, Texas. It sells products for grooming, styling, and maintaining of beards, hair, skin, and mustaches. In 2014, Beardbrand founder and CEO Eric Bandholz appeared on an episode of ...

* Birds Barbershop

Biotechnology

* Asuragen-Relocation to Minneapolis, Minnesota * Luminex Corporation * Sonic Healthcare- Bought and moved to Australia

Booksellers and publishing

* BookPeople *

Clockwork Storybook Clockwork Storybook (CWSB) was a writer's collective and independent book publisher based in Austin, Texas. It specialized in the fantasy, horror and adventure genres. History Clockwork Storybook was formed in the late 1990s by fellow Austi ...

-Shutdown * Greenleaf Book Group *

Holt McDougal Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools. The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the ...

Landes Bioscience Landes Bioscience is an Austin, Texas-based publisher of bioscience journals. ''Cell Cycle'', one of its first two journals, achieved the highest percent increase in total citations in molecular biology and genetics for the period of July–August ...

* Monofonus Press *

Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the c ...

Construction

Data

* Forcepoint * Global Language Monitor * Hoover's * MyEdu *

NetSolve NetSolve was an information technology company based in the United States. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on September 9, 2004. Netsolve, Inc was a 1995 renaming of an Austin, Texas-based company Southwest Network Services, Inc. Netsolve's pri ...

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Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...

) * Vignette Corporation ( Open Text Corporation)- Headquartered in Canada

Direct marketing

QuantumDigital QuantumDigital, Inc., is a company based in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1986 as Quantum Systems. QuantumDigital was one of the first companies in the U.S. to launch an electronic ordering system, called Q-Direct, for the direct mail industr ...

Education

MakerSquare MakerSquare was a provider of software engineering bootcamp based in Austin, TX, with additional campus locations in San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. MakerSquare provided a career-focused program that includes job training an ...

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

Energy

Crystatech CrystaTech Inc. is a supplier of process technology to the energy industry. CrystaTech commercializes the patented Crystasulf process. CrystaSulf is the first commercially available product to provide low cost hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal from ...

Green Mountain Energy Green Mountain Energy Company is a United States company that sells electricity products, carbon offsets, and sustainable energy. History In August 1997, Green Mountain Energy was founded in Vermont as an offshoot of Green Mountain Power to ta ...

HelioVolt HelioVolt Corporation was a privately held solar energy company based in Austin, Texas that suspended operations in 2014. The company manufactured photovoltaic (PV) solar modules using a thin film semiconductor process based on copper indium gall ...

-Suspended operations in 2015 * Illumitex

Environmental monitoring

* VI Technology-Acquired by Aeroflex

Esports

Tribe Gaming Tribe Gaming (TRB) is a North American mobile gaming esports and entertainment organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2017, Tribe currently fields professional teams across multiple mobile video game titles including: Clash Ro ...

Film and television

* Alamo Drafthouse Cinema *

Bright Shining City Productions Bright Shining City Productions is an independent film and media production company established in Austin, Texas by Polish-American film director and producer Mariusz Kotowski in 2005. The company's initial film project was the full-length docume ...

* FloSports *

Rooster Teeth Productions Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of ...

* Troublemaker Studios * Uptown Studios Austin

Finance and banking

* Kasasa * Dimensional Fund Advisors *

Farm Credit Bank of Texas Farm Credit Bank of Texas, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a Wholesale banking, wholesale lender and business-service provider to 14 local borrower-owned Farm Credit associations in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texa ...

Food and drink

* Amy's Ice Creams * Bush's Chicken-Relocation to

Waco, Texas Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and Interstate 35, I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin, Texas, Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the List ...

Carino's Italian Carino's Italian is a United States-based chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas, the concept is owned by Fired Up, Inc., which was founded in 1997 by partners and former Brinker Internatio ...

Chameleon Cold-Brew Chameleon Cold-Brew is an American coffee company based in Austin, Texas. It is known for its cold brew coffee and is credited as the first fair trade and organic cold brew company in the United States. In 2014, Chameleon Cold-Brew was given the ' ...

Chuy's Chuy's is a Tex-Mex restaurant chain established in 1982 in Austin, Texas, by Mike Young and John Zapp. As of February 2022, Chuy's had close to 100 restaurants in 17 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ke ...

DoubleDave's Pizzaworks DoubleDave's Pizzaworks is a chain of pizza restaurants based in Austin, Texas. The first restaurant was founded by David Davydd Miller in College Station, TX in 1984. Charles M. Thorp, Jr. is the CEO. In addition to several varieties of pi ...

Gatti's Pizza Mr Gatti's Pizza is a Southern and Southeastern United States pizza-buffet chain. The corporate offices are in Fort Worth, Texas. History In 1964, retired United States Air Force, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James R. Eure opened a pizza and ha ...

- Relocation to Fort Worth before shutdown *

KaleidoScoops KaleidoScoops is an American chain of ice cream shops. It was founded in 1999 by a co-operative of former Baskin-Robbins franchisees after the termination of their franchises. The chain now only has 5 locations in 3 states throughout the U.S. Com ...

* Live Oak Brewing Company *

Oasis Restaurant The Oasis on Lake Travis is a restaurant on the western edge of Austin, Texas. The restaurant promotes itself as the "Sunset Capital of Texas" with its terraced views looking West over Lake Travis. The thirty thousand square foot restaurant sits o ...

* Sweet Leaf Tea Company *

Texadelphia Texadelphia is a cheesesteak sandwich restaurant chain established in Austin, Texas in 1981 by Philadelphia native Joel Stanley. Texadelphia has had locations in and around Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and Oklahoma C ...

-Relocation to

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

* Tiff's Treats *

Tito's Vodka Tito's Handmade Vodka is a vodka brand made by Fifth Generation, founded by Tito Beveridge in 1997 in Austin, Texas – specializing in vodka made from yellow corn, rather than potatoes or wheat. It is distilled 6 times and unaged. Marketing ...

Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an upscale American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives. A U ...

* YETI Coolers

Gaming development, distribution and production

Arkane Studios Arkane Studios SASU is a French video game developer based in Lyon. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, ''Arx Fatalis'', in 2002. Besides the Lyon studio, Arkane Lyon, Arkane Studios operates Arkane Studios LLC ( trading as Ar ...

* Aspyr * Battlecry Studios *

Bluepoint Games Bluepoint Games Inc is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2006 by Andy O'Neil and Marco Thrush, the studio is known for video game remasters and remakes, such as '' Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection'' (2015 ...

* Certain Affinity * Crytek USA- Shutdown in 2013 *

Devolver Digital Devolver Digital, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the publishing of indie games. The company was founded in June 2009 by Nigel Lowrie, Harry Miller, Graeme Struthers, Rick Stults, and Mike Wilson ...

* Edge of Reality- Dissolved 2018 * Gamecock Media Group- Shutdown in 2008 * GameSalad *

Ghostfire Games Ghostfire Games was a video game developer and publisher based out of Austin, Texas, U.S., founded in late 2007. The company specialized in games for the WiiWare platform. Their final title, Rage of the Gladiator was also released for the 3DS an ...

- Closed in 2019 *

Heatwave Interactive Heatwave Interactive is an Austin, Texas based video game developer founded in 2007 by M. Tomas, Anthony Castoro, and Donn Clendenon. Titles Heatwave has developed games and apps for several platforms: * ''iSamJackson'', an application featuring ...

* KingsIsle Entertainment *

Portalarium Portalarium, Inc. was a video game developer based in Austin, Texas that was formed in September 2009 by Richard Garriott, together with his longtime game industry partners, Dallas Snell and Fred Schmidt. Portalarium marks Richard Garriott's first ...

- Closed 2019 * Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. * Renegade Kid- Dissolved 2016 * Retro Studios * Rooster Teeth Games * Roxor Games * Spacetime Studios * Twisted Pixel Games * Wolfpack Studios- Shutdown in 2006

Insurance

* National Western Life

Intelligence

Stratfor Strategic Forecasting Inc., commonly known as Stratfor, is an American geopolitics publisher and consultancy founded in 1996. Stratfor's business model is to provide individual and enterprise subscriptions to Stratfor Worldview, its online public ...

Internet service providers

Wayport, Inc. Founded in 1996, Wayport, Inc. (now AT&T Wi-Fi Services) is a Wi-Fi broadband internet access provider, based in Austin, Texas. Wayport provides hotspots in approximately 28,000 locations (as of October 2010) throughout the United States. Venue ...

, acquired by AT&T in 2008

Loans

* EZCorp

Manufacturing

Cerilliant Corporation Cerilliant Corporation, located in Round Rock, Texas, is a manufacturer of certified reference standards and certified reference materials providing products and services to forensic / toxicology, diagnostic/clinical, environmental, natural produc ...

CompuAdd CompuAdd Corporation was a manufacturer of personal computers in Austin, Texas. It assembled its product from components manufactured by others. CompuAdd created generic PC clone computers, but unlike most clone makers, it had a large engineering ...

- Closed in the 90s * Elgin-Butler Brick Company * IKey *

Motion Computing Motion Computing, Inc., was a developer of slate Tablet PC computers located in Austin, Texas. Motion Computing focused on vertical markets such as healthcare government, public safety, and construction. It was the first company to introduce Goril ...

* National Instruments * Ronco-Fully dissolved in bankruptcy 2018 *

SuperCircuits Supercircuits, Inc. is an American manufacturer of audio and video surveillance solutions based in Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Te ...

* Tesla * Valence Technology

Music

Blastro Blastro Networks is a web-based company headquartered in Austin, TX, that runs three genre-specific, on-demand, streaming music video websites. Blastro, voted “Best of the Web 2007” by ''BusinessWeek'', is an urban-centric site for Hip-Hop, ...

* Blastro Networks *

Collings Guitars Collings Guitars is an Austin, Texas based stringed instrument manufacturer. The company was founded in 1973 by ''Bill'' ''Collings'' (August 9, 1948 – July 14, 2017). In addition to acoustic guitars they also make electric guitars, archt ...

* Emperor Jones *

Waterloo Records Waterloo Records is an independent music and video retailer in Austin, Texas, which has been an integral part of Austin's music scene since 1982. The store provides a large selection of new and used CDs, vinyl records, DVDs, Blu-rays, turntabl ...

* Western Vinyl

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

* Bat Conservation International * Knowbility

Real estate

American Campus Communities American Campus Communities, Inc. (ACC) is the largest developer, owner and manager of student housing communities in the United States. It is headquartered in Bee Cave, Texas, with an Austin Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state ...

Econohomes Econohomes is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in foreclosures, also known as real estate owned properties (REO), and specialty financing across the United States. The company buys distressed residential properties who ...

* Forestar Group-No longer located in Austin, headquartered in

Arlington, Texas Arlington is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Tarrant County. It forms part of the Mid-Cities region of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and is a principal city of the metropolis and region. ...

* HomeAway- Acquired and relocated in 2015 by

Expedia Expedia Inc. is an online travel agency owned by Expedia Group, an American online travel shopping company based in Seattle. The website and mobile app can be used to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruise ships, and ...

Keller Williams Realty Keller Williams Realty (commonly referred to as Keller Williams) is an American technology and international real estate franchise with headquarters in Austin, Texas. It claimed to be the largest real estate franchise in number of agents and sal ...

* Opcity-Shutdown by

Move, Inc. Move, Inc. is a real estate listing company based in Santa Clara, California. The company operates the Move Network of real estate websites, the largest of which is Realtor.com. Move has a longstanding partnership with the National Association of R ...

Retail

* Allens Boots *

Bravelets Bravelets is an e-commerce jewelry store that contributes a portion of the money from each purchase towards the charitable organization of the purchaser's choosing. The company, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, was founded by Stephanie Han ...

Despair, Inc. Despair, Inc is a company based in Austin, Texas, that produces posters and souvenirs that satirize the motivational indoctrination common in corporate environments. They are known for their cynical and ironic "Demotivator" items, which parody t ...

* Eyebuydirect * Kendra Scott *

L.G. Balfour Company Balfour is an American producer of high school, college, military, and championship rings, and well as yearbooks, caps and gowns, and graduation announcements. Founded in 1913 as the L.G. Balfour Company, Balfour is an operating unit of Commemo ...

* Living Direct * Outdoor Voices *

, a division of

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...

Security

* Knight security systems

Semiconductors

* Advanced Technology Development Facility * Cirrus Logic *

NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2 ...

* Silicon Laboratories

Shipping

uShip uShip, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based Internet company that operates uShip.com, an online marketplace for shipping services. Individuals and businesses post items they need shipped in a variety of categories, including auto transport, boat shipp ...

Software

Academic Superstore JourneyEd, along with its subsidiaries, sells academic software to members of the educational community in North America and Canada. Vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe, Corel, and others offer academic versions of software to students, faculty, sta ...

* Asure Software * Bazaarvoice * BigCommerce * Borland-Full acquisition by Micro Focus International * Convio * Enthought *

Evolutionary Technologies International Evolutionary Technologies International (ETI) was a company focused on developing database tools and data warehousing. Originally a research project at the Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas, ETI was spun off as a p ...

- Bought out by Inspire *

Honestech Honest Technology, or Honestech Inc., is a supplier of digital video and audio communication and entertainment solutions. Some of their flagship products include VHS to DVD, Audio Recorder Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical ...

* Indeed.com *

InduSoft Invensys Ltd. was a multinational engineering and information technology company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was formed in 1999 through the merger of BTR plc and Siebe plc. It had offices in more than 50 countries and its produc ...

-Merged with Schneider Electric *

Meta SaaS Meta SaaS was a software company headquartered in Austin, Texas that provided Software Asset Management (SAM) for SaaS products. History In September 2016, Arlo Gilbert alongside co-founder Scott Hertel launched Meta SaaS in Austin to solve p ...

* Metreos-Acquired by

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...

* Pervasive Software-Acquired by Actian *

Photodex Photodex was a software company specializing in the digital imaging market. They are primarily known for the ProShow product line, which is photo slideshow software. Photodex released one of the first consumer level slideshow programs in 1991 wit ...

-Permanently shut down *

Planview Planview is a global enterprise software company headquartered in Austin, Texas. History The company was founded in 1989 in Austin, Texas, by Patrick Durbin. In 1997, the company launched its complete web-based resource and project portfolio ...

Pristine Pristine, meaning unsullied, or unmodified from a natural state, may also refer to: * ''Bruise Pristine'', 1995 song by Placebo * ''Pristine Smut'', 1997 album by The Murmurs * Pristine (band), Norwegian blues rock band * Pristine (company), softw ...

* SolarWinds * Spiceworks *

Spredfast Khoros, formerly Spredfast + Lithium, is a global customer engagement software company that provides online community management, social media marketing, social media analytics, digital care, and content management software and services to ente ...

Third Wire Third Wire Productions Inc. is a C corporation based in Austin, Texas, United States; it is an independent software development company founded in 1999 to create multimedia entertainment, such as amateur flight simulators and strategy video g ...

Ticketbud Ticketbud is an event management, ticketing and registration SaaS platform for event organizers. The software allows event organizers to sell tickets to events and also to promote and market their events on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. ...

Trilogy A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, and video games, and are less common in other art forms. Three-part wo ...

* Vrbo * Winternals * Xojo *

Zello Zello is a tech software company in Austin, Texas, U.S., known for the Zello app, which emulates push-to-talk (PTT) walkie-talkies over cell phone networks. History Alexey Gavrilov developed the product originally called Loudtalks which was an ...

Telecommunications

* LifeSize * Protect America-Assets sold to Brinks * TippingPoint-Acquired and relocated by

Trend Micro is an American-Japanese multinational cyber security software company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and Irving, Texas, United State.Other regional headquarters and R&D centers are located around East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, an ...

Utilities

Lower Colorado River Authority The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is a nonprofit public utility created in November 1934 by the Texas Legislature. LCRA's mission is to enhance the lives of the Texans it serves through water stewardship, energy and community service. LC ...

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