Silicon Hills is a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies in the

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metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas. Silicon Hills has been a nickname for Austin since the mid-1990s. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley, but refers to the hilly terrain on the west side of Austin. High tech industries in the area include enterprise software,

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, corporate R&D, biotechnology, the video game industry, and a variety of startup companies. Technology companies with offices in the area include Advanced Micro Devices, Amazon.com, Apple Inc.,

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, Cisco, eBay
ESO
Facebook, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel,

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, PayPal, Procore, Silicon Labs, Texas Instruments,

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 ...

, Visa, VMWare, and many others.

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's worldwide

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are located in

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, a

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of Austin.

Venture capital, incubators and accelerators

Austin was one of the top areas for venture capital with investors investing $621 million in 2013 (43% of that went to software and semiconductor firms). Some venture capital investors include Austin Ventures, Central Texas Angels Network, Genesis UT, and Tritium Partners. There are at least 15

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s as well, including:

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, Austin Technology Incubator, DivInc, Founder's Institute, Tarmac and the IC^''2'' Institute (the incubator for the University of Texas at Austin). Additionally, Austin houses several startup accelerators includin
Sputnik ATX
venture-accelerator
Tech Stars
an
Mass Challenge TX
Austin venture capital

List of tech companies with a presence in the Austin area

References

{{reflist High-technology business districts in the United States Information technology places

Venture capital, incubators and accelerators

List of tech companies with a presence in the Austin area

See also

References