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 Ce ...

Fortune 500

(rankings as of 2021) *

Dell Technologies Dell Technologies Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It was formed as a result of the September 2016 merger of Dell and EMC Corporation. Dell Technologies ranked 48th on the 2024 Fortune ...

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Oracle An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. If done through occultic means, it is a form of divination. Descript ...

(80) * Tesla Inc. (100)

Advertising

* Door Number 3 *

GSD&M GSD&M is an American advertising agency headquartered in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1971 by graduates of The University of Texas, University of Texas at Austin – Roy Spence, Judy Trabulsi, Tim McClure and Steve Gurasich, and others, as Ad ...

* 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, Inc. 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-D ...

)-Shutdown * McGarrah Jessee *

R/GA R/GA is an innovation consultancy, and digital design and advertising agency, headquartered in New York City, with global offices in Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, London, Berlin, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Shanghai, Sy ...

* RetailMeNot * Rock Candy Media * T3 (The Think Tank)

Aerospace and air travel

* Astrotech Corporation * Austin Express- Shutdown * Emerald Air-Closed

Architecture

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

Automotive

* Tesla

Beauty

* Beardbrand * Birds Barbershop

Biotechnology

* Asuragen-Relocation to

Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ...

* Luminex Corporation * Sonic Healthcare- Bought and moved to

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

Booksellers and publishing

* BookPeople * Clockwork Storybook (Discontinued) *

Greenleaf Book Group Greenleaf Book Group is an American independent book publisher and distributor, which was established by Clint Greenleaf in 1997. Greenleaf was a CPA and accountant at Deloitte & Touche before writing his first book, ''Attention to Detail'', in 1 ...

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 * 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 cr ...

Construction

* The Boring Company * ICON

Data

* Forcepoint *

Global Language Monitor The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is a company based in Austin, Texas, that analyzes trends in the English language. History Founded in Silicon Valley in 2003 by Paul J.J. Payack, the GLM describes its role as "a media analytics company ...

Hoover's D&B Hoovers was founded by Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain in 1990 as an American business research company that provided information on companies and industries through their primary product platform named "Hoover's". In 2003, it was acquired b ...

* NetSolve (

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, m ...

) * Vignette Corporation (

Open Text Corporation OpenText Corporation (styled as opentext) is a global software company that develops and sells information management software. OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company as of 2022, and r ...

)- Headquartered in Canada

Direct marketing

* QuantumDigital

Education

* MakerSquare *

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

* St. Edward's University

Energy

* Crystatech * Green Mountain Energy * HelioVolt-Suspended operations in 2015 * Illumitex

Environmental monitoring

* VI Technology-Acquired by Aeroflex

Esports

Film and television

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, which is famous for serving dinner and drinks during the film, as well as its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinema-going etiq ...

* Bright Shining City Productions *

FloSports FloSports is an over-the-top subscription sports broadcaster and streaming service. The company is based in Austin, Texas, United States, and was founded in 2006. FloSports streams live sporting events to audiences around the world. History L ...

Troublemaker Studios Troublemaker Studios is an American independent production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipa ...

* Uptown Studios Austin

Finance and banking

* Kasasa *

Dimensional Fund Advisors Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P. (branded Dimensional abbreviated DFA) is a privately-owned investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dimensional was founded in Brooklyn in 1981 by David Booth, Rex Sinquefield and Larry Klotz. The company h ...

* Farm Credit Bank of Texas *

Vista Equity Partners Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC is an American private equity firm that invests in software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. It is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, managing over $100 billion in assets. Vista Eq ...

Food and drink

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

Waco, Texas Waco ( ) is a city in and 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 U.S. census estimated 2024 popul ...

* Carino's Italian * Chameleon Cold-Brew * Chuy's * Deep Eddy Vodka * DoubleDave's Pizzaworks * Gatti's Pizza- Relocation to

Fort Worth Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Te ...

before shutdown * KaleidoScoops * Live Oak Brewing Company * The Oasis on Lake Travis * Siete Foods *

Sweet Leaf Tea Company Sweet Leaf Tea Company was a producer of ready-to-drink organic branded teas and lemonades owned by Nestlé. It was founded in Beaumont, TX in 1998 by Clayton Christopher and David Smith. On April 2, 2008, Sweet Leaf Tea Company announced $ ...

* Texadelphia-Relocation to

Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

* Tiff's Treats * Tito's Vodka * Torchys Tacos *

Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market, Inc. (colloquially referred to as simply Whole Foods) is an American multinational supermarket chain store, chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from Hydrogenated fat, hydrogenated fats and artificia ...

* 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. The studio has created the popular Dishonored (series), ''Dishonored'' series as well as developi ...

* Aspyr *

BattleCry Studios Bethesda Game Studios is an American video game developer and a studio of ZeniMax Media based in Rockville, Maryland. It is best known for its action role-playing franchises, including ''The Elder Scrolls'', ''Fallout'', and '' Starfield''. Bet ...

* Bluepoint Games *

Certain Affinity Certain Affinity is an American video game development studio based in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2006 by Max Hoberman and a small number of other ex-Bungie employees and other industry veterans. On October 18, 2024, Certain Affinity was ...

Crytek USA Crytek USA Corp. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, and a subsidiary of Crytek. The studio was led by David Adams, who was formerly the CEO of Vigil Games; a studio that had been acquired by THQ, but was shut down a ...

- 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 Wil ...

Edge of Reality Edge of Reality, Ltd. was an American video game developer, founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas, that wrote games for the Nintendo 64, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 consoles. The company developed the Ninten ...

- Dissolved 2018 *

Gamecock Media Group Gamecock Media Group was an American video game publisher based in Austin, Texas, founded in February 2007 by Mike Wilson, Harry Miller and Rick Stults, formerly founders and executives of Gathering of Developers. The company was acquired by ...

- Shutdown in 2008 * GameSalad * Ghostfire Games- Closed in 2019 * Heatwave Interactive * KingsIsle Entertainment * Portalarium- Closed 2019 * Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. * Renegade Kid- Dissolved 2016 *

Retro Studios Retro Studios, Inc. is an American video game developer and subsidiary of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas. The studio is best known for its work on the '' Metroid Prime'' and ''Donkey Kong'' series and has contributed to several other Nintendo- ...

* Rooster Teeth Games * Roxor Games * Spacetime Studios * Twisted Pixel Games * Wolfpack Studios- Shutdown in 2006

Health and Wellness

* Fleshlight

Insurance

* National Western Life

Intelligence

Stratfor Strategic Forecasting Inc., commonly known as Stratfor, is an American strategic intelligence publishing company founded in 1996. Stratfor's business model is to provide individual and enterprise subscriptions to Stratfor Worldview, its online p ...

Internet service providers

* Wayport, Inc., acquired by AT&T in 2008

Loans

* EZCorp

Manufacturing

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

Magpul Industries Magpul Industries Corporation is an American designer and manufacturer of high-tech polymer and composite firearms accessories like M-LOK M-LOK, for Modular Lock, is a firearm Rail Integration System, rail interface system developed and pa ...

* Motion Computing *

National Instruments The National Instruments Corporation, doing business as NI, is an America, American multinational corporation, multinational company with international operations. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated tes ...

Ronco HD Schulman International Trading LLC, doing business as Ronco, is an American company that manufactures and sells kitchen appliances. Ron Popeil founded the company in 1964, and infomercials for the company's products quickly made Ronco a hous ...

-Fully dissolved in bankruptcy 2018 * SuperCircuits * Tesla *

Valence Technology Valence Technology, Inc. was a company that developed and manufactured lithium iron phosphate cathode material as well as lithium ion battery modules and packs. The modules come in 12 V, 18 V, 24 V, and 36 V configurations ...

Medical

* Ben's Friends

Music

* Blastro * Blastro Networks * Collings Guitars * Emperor Jones *

Waterloo Records Waterloo Records is an independent record shop, 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 Compact Disc, CDs, Gramophone reco ...

* Western Vinyl

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Bat Conservation International Bat Conservation International (BCI) is an international nongovernmental organization working to conserve bats and their habitats through conservation, education, and research efforts. BCI was founded in 1982 by bat biologist Merlin Tuttle, wh ...

* Knowbility

Real estate

* American Campus Communities * Econohomes *

Forestar Group Forestar Group Inc. is a residential lot development company based in Arlington, Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Lo ...

-No longer located in Austin, headquartered in

Arlington, Texas Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Mid-Cities region of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and is a principal c ...

HomeAway HomeAway was a vacation rental marketplace. It operated through 50 websites in 23 languages through which it offered rentals of cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, and farmhouses. Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, ...

- Acquired and relocated in 2015 by

Expedia Expedia Inc. is an online travel agency owned by Expedia Group, based in Seattle. The website and mobile app can be used to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruise ships, and vacation packages. Expedia.com was launched on ...

* Keller Williams Realty * Opcity-Shutdown by Move, Inc.

Retail

* Allens Boots * Despair, Inc. *

Eyebuydirect Eyebuydirect, Inc. is an online retailer of prescription glasses, based in Austin, Texas. Eyebuydirect also sells prescription and non-prescription sunglasses, sport sunglasses, and computer glasses designed to reduce glare. Eyebuydirect was ...

* Flying Eyes Optics * Kendra Scott * L.G. Balfour Company * Living Direct * Outdoor Voices * Tecovas *

TicketCity TicketCity is a privately held American ticket broker and online marketplace headquartered in Austin, Texas. History Randy Cohen founded TicketCity in March 1990 using the experience he gained selling tickets on the secondary market in 1988 wh ...

, a division of

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

Security

* Knight security systems

Semiconductors

* Advanced Technology Development Facility *

Cirrus Logic Cirrus Logic Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor company, fabless semiconductor supplier that specializes in analog, mixed-signal, and audio Digital signal processor, DSP integrated circuits (ICs). Since 1998, the company's headquarters have ...

NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is the third largest European semiconductor company by market capitalization as of 2024. The company employs approx ...

Silicon Laboratories Silicon Laboratories, Inc., commonly referred to as Silicon Labs, is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design engineers and manufact ...

Shipping

* uShip

Software

* Academic Superstore * Agiliway *

Asure Software Asure Software, Inc. is a software company. Prior to September 13, 2007, the company was known as Forgent Networks. After rebranding as Asure Software, the company expanded into offering human capital management (HCM) solutions, including payro ...

Bazaarvoice Bazaarvoice is a technology company based in Austin, Texas, that provides software that allows brands and retailers to collect and display several types of user-generated content (UGC) on their e-commerce websites. Bazaarvoice's services include� ...

* BigCommerce *

Borland Borland Software Corporation was a computing technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad, and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was developing and selling software development and software deployment products. B ...

-Full acquisition by

Micro Focus International Micro Focus International plc was a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provided software and consultancy. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and t ...

Convio Convio was a software company based in Austin, Texas, in the US, with offices in Washington, DC, and Emeryville, California. Convio provided internet marketing and business management applications tailored specifically for non-profit organizations ...

Enthought Enthought, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, United States that develops Computational science, scientific and analytic computing solutions using primarily the Python (programming language), Python programming language. It is best ...

* Honestech * Indeed.com * InduSoft-Merged with

Schneider Electric Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational corporation that specializes in digital automation and energy management. Registered as a Societas Europaea, Schneider Electric is a ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, publicly traded on the Euronex ...

* Meta SaaS * Metreos-Acquired by

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...

* Pervasive Software-Acquired by

Actian Actian is an American software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that provides Analytics, analytics-related software, products, and services. The company sells database, database software and technology, Cloud computing, cloud en ...

Photodex Photodex is a software company specializing in the digital imaging market, primarily known for its ProShow product line, a photo slideshow software. The company announced in January of 2020 it was shutting down it servers as of January 31, 2020. ...

-Permanently shut down * Planview * Pristine *

SolarWinds SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offi ...

* Spiceworks * Spredfast * Third Wire * Ticketbud *

Trilogy A trilogy is a set of three distinct works 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. Three-part works that are considered components of ...

* Vrbo *

Winternals Windows Sysinternals is a website that offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment. Originally, the Sysinternals website (formerly known as ntinternals) was created in 19 ...

* X Corp. *

Xojo The Xojo programming environment and programming language is developed and commercially marketed by Xojo, Inc. of Austin, Texas for software development targeting macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, the Web and Raspberry Pi. Xojo uses ...

* Zello

Telecommunications

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

Trend Micro is an American-Japanese cyber security software company. The company has globally dispersed R&D in 16 locations across every continent excluding Antarctica. The company develops enterprise security software for servers, containers, and cloud ...

Utilities

* Lower Colorado River Authority

References

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