Best AI Infrastructure Companies in Texas, United States
The 69 best AI Infrastructure companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Applied Digital.
Our analysis of 50 AI Infrastructure companies
$46.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best AI Infrastructure companies in Texas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Applied Digital Provider of data centers and cloud solutions for high-performance computing 69Partners top 18%News top 26%AI top 26%Funding top 29% All 12 signals ▾Partnerstop 18% Newstop 26% AItop 26% Fundingtop 29% Producttop 35% Markettop 37% Growthtop 38% Talenttop 42% Techtop 48% Moattop 48% Fin. healthbottom 47% Globalbottom 30% Partners: 2 partnership announcements in 12 mo (2 in 24 mo) · 27 contract events in 12 mo News: 86 BI events in 12 mo (of 199 tracked, 11 types) · +69% YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $562M | 8 mo ago | 150 150 → 244 (+63%) | Jason Zhang Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+15 | — | — |
| 2 | Mythic Developer of analog compute-in-memory solutions for artificial intelligence inference acceleration 67Funding top 17%AI top 25%Patents top 37%News top 37% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 17% AItop 25% Patentstop 37% Newstop 37% Innovationtop 43% Moattop 44% Markettop 47% Growthtop 47% Techtop 47% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 42% Funding: Raised $178M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 10 yrs (0.9/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $178M | 6 mo ago | 360 | Dave Fick CTO & Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | 104 patents Mixed-signal AI accelerators for in-memory neural network training and inference. | — |
| 3 | Tethr Platform providing speech analytics using natural language processing | $91M | 54 mo ago | 63 | — | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — | — |
| 4 | HiddenLayer Offering threat detection solutions to protect AI models | $56M | 33 mo ago | 50 | James Ballard Co-Founder and CIO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20 | 79 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 5 | Anaconda 🦄 Provider of a platform for developing and deploying data science projects 93Tech top 20%News top 22%Funding top 23%Talent top 23% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 20% Newstop 22% Fundingtop 23% Talenttop 23% Innovationtop 25% Markettop 29% Growthtop 29% AItop 30% Moattop 31% Producttop 36% Globalbottom 37% Tech: 81 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services News: 5 BI events in 12 mo (of 19 tracked, 7 types) · 3 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 93/100 | $42M | 10 mo ago | 378 | Peter Wang Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+37 | — | — |
| 6 | Pensa Systems Provider of drone-based autonomous perception systems for inventory visibility | $42M | 29 mo ago | 26 | Pinar Kaprali Co-Founder & Head of Product | — | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 7 | Striveworks Developer of AIOps platform for artificial intelligence model deployment and management 69Growth top 20%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 32% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Fundingtop 32% Markettop 46% Moattop 47% Globalbottom 33% Patentsbottom 32% Innovationbottom 31% Newsbottom 27% Growth: Headcount 48 → 74 (+54%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $33M | 3 mo ago | 74 | Eric Korman Co-Founder & CSO | — | 2 patents Automated data provenance and workflow lineage tracking for enterprise metadata management | — |
| 8 | Inspire Semiconductor Developer of AI and blockchain-based semiconductor ICs 42AI top 20%Funding top 31%Growth top 47%News top 49% All 8 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 31% Growthtop 47% Newstop 49% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 32% Marketbottom 24% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $24.7M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 4 yrs (2.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $25M | 14 mo ago | 17 | Ron Dell CEO | WordPress Block EditorDiviWordPress+27 | — | 3 job openings |
| 9 | Extropic Hardware platform to build substrate for generative AI | $14M | 30 mo ago | — | Guillaume Verdon Founder & CEO | SanityNode.jsTailwind CSS+13 | 54 patents Probabilistic and thermodynamic computing hardware for sampling and inference | — |
| 10 | Polygraf AI provides data integrity, monitoring, and governance solutions 62Talent top 28%Tech top 30%AI top 30%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Techtop 30% AItop 30% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Innovationtop 45% Patentstop 50% Moatbottom 44% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 29% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Tech: 45 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $11M | 8 mo ago | 18 | Vignesh Karumbaya Co-Founder & COO | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 3 patents Data provenance identification and AI governance platform for machine‑learning systems | — |
| 11 | Cycorp AI based automated reasoning infrastructure | $10M | 107 mo ago | 36 | Douglas Lenat CEO & Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 12 | Neurophos Platform that deliver GPU-level performance in a compact, energy-efficient form using optical computing and… 48AI top 18%Patents top 34%Innovation top 35%Funding top 37% All 9 signals ▾AItop 18% Patentstop 34% Innovationtop 35% Fundingtop 37% Moattop 38% Techtop 50% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 46% Marketbottom 21% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Patents: 21 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 18 filings since 2022 vs 3 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $10M | 6 mo ago | 5 | Patrick Bowen Co-Founder & CEO | WixSentryApple iCloud Mail+13 | 21 patents Advanced optical computing hardware: metasurfaces, tunable liquid‑crystal metamaterials, 4‑f convolution optics, and parallel inst | — |
| 13 | Veris AI-powered synthetic data engine solutions 60Moat top 28%Patents top 32%Innovation top 39%Funding top 42% All 7 signals ▾Moattop 28% Patentstop 32% Innovationtop 39% Fundingtop 42% AItop 45% Talentbottom 45% Globalbottom 40% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · IP moat: 185 patents Patents: 185 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 13 filings since 2022 vs 63 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $8M | 12 mo ago | — | Andi Partovi Co-Founder | — | 182 patents Electrical power metering, branch current monitoring, and fault detection for building distribution systems. | — |
| 14 | Verax Developer of a platform providing visibility and control of large language models | $8M | 19 mo ago | — | Oren Gev Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesGSAP+18 | 21 patents Multi‑source acoustic capture, modeling, and networked audio transmission systems | 2 job openings |
| 15 | ThirdAI Platform offering large language models and AI technologies | $6M | 58 mo ago | 10 | Anshumali Shrivastava Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 16 | MythWorx Developer of artificial general intelligence models for defense, government, and commercial sectors 24AI top 30%Talent bottom 49%Funding bottom 46%Tech bottom 45% All 6 signals ▾AItop 30% Talentbottom 49% Fundingbottom 46% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: llms Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100 | $5M | 10 mo ago | — | Matthew Pumphrey Co-Founder | WordPressProton MailGoogle Workspace+21 | — | — |
| 17 | Uprizer Labs Consulting and product development company specializing in email protection and computation | $4M | 304 mo ago | 11 | Ian Clarke Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Pratexo Provider of an edge computing platform for AI and IoT applications | $4M | 34 mo ago | 26 | Petter Graff Co-Founder & CTO | — | 5 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 19 | Galatiq Provider of custom agentic AI agents for business automation 29Funding bottom 49%Talent bottom 45%Global bottom 25% All 3 signals ▾Fundingbottom 49% Talentbottom 45% Globalbottom 25% Funding: Raised $2.9M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $3M | 3 mo ago | — | Scott Kamra Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 20 | synnada.ai Developer of compute engine designed for data and artificial intelligence workloads | $3M | 53 mo ago | 11 | Sami Tandogdu COO | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+8 | — | — |
| 21 | Dappier Platform for users to create and monetize AI chatbots and data models | $2M | 23 mo ago | — | Dan Goikhman Co-Founder | Google Sign-inMUITailwind CSS+15 | — | 1 launch |
| 22 | Deep Cognition Platform to develop deep learning models | $2M | 29 mo ago | 28 | Mandeep Kumar Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+11 | — | — |
| 23 | 80legs Provides Web Crawling Services | $400K | 201 mo ago | — | Shion Deysarkar CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | — | — |
| 24 | Lorykeet Provider of AI governance, risk, and compliance management solutions | $225K | 83 mo ago | — | Sam Nayak Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 AI Infrastructure companies in Texas
#1
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 360 employees$178Mraised▾
Developer of analog compute-in-memory solutions for artificial intelligence inference acceleration. The company provides processors and cards designed for power-efficient AI at the edge. Its technology aims to eliminate memory bottlenecks, enabling new AI applications. The products target sectors including robotics, security, and consumer devices.
- Dec 2025Series D$125M
- Mar 2023Series C$13M
- May 2021Series C$70M
- May 2019Series B$3M
#2
Public · Dallas, Texas · founded 2021 · 150 employees$562.5Mraised▾
Provider of data centers and cloud solutions for high-performance computing. The company delivers infrastructure designed to accommodate artificial intelligence factory deployments and accelerated computing. It offers data center solutions engineered to meet specifications of accelerated compute roadmaps. The company also provides a cloud service that offers computing power for workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- Oct 2025Post IPO$112.5M
- Sep 2024Post IPO$450M
#3
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 74 employees$33Mraised▾
Developer of AIOps platform for artificial intelligence model deployment and management. The platform facilitates building, launching, and maintaining artificial intelligence models. It enables users to deploy models and maintain their functionality as conditions change. The platform delivers analysis by creating models that adapt to their environment. It offers capabilities that extend across land, air, and sea. The platform enables users to detect threats and maintain situational awareness. It automatically detects, classifies, and tracks objects of interest from satellite images to drone feeds.
- Mar 2026Series D$18M
- Jun 2023Series C$33M
#4
Anaconda 🦄Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 378 employees$41.8Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for developing and deploying data science projects. It provides collaboration tools to manage and share multiple versions of a data science project. Features include multiple data source integration, deployment, machine learning models, end-to-end encryption, and token-based access to models.
- Jul 2025Series C$150M
- Sep 2021Series B—
- Dec 2018Series B$17.5M
- Aug 2018Series B—
#5
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 5 employees$10Mraised▾
Platform that deliver GPU-level performance in a compact, energy-efficient form using optical computing and metamaterials. Its technology targets AI inference, offering hundred x proress in speed and efficiency compared to traditional systems. Its OPUs perform in-memory matrix multiplications at light speed, shrinking optical modulators by ten thousands x for terawatt-scale AI compute in data centers.
- Nov 2025Series A$110M
- Oct 2023Seed$7.2M
- 2021Convertible Debt$1M
- 2020Seed$1.8M
#6
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2025$2.9Mraised▾
Provider of custom agentic AI agents for business automation. Builds AI agents that learn and adapt to business processes for intelligent automation. Deploys forward engineers to integrate solutions into client workflows. Automates complex tasks continuously with tailored AI systems. Focuses on enterprise operations through embedded engineering teams.
- Feb 2026Seed$2.9M
#7
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 18 employees$11.3Mraised▾
AI provides data integrity, monitoring, and governance solutions. Its solutions to organizations using AI and LLM tools. Its product, allows users to identify false and misleading consumer reviews, including those generated by AI.
- Sep 2025Series A$9.5M
- Apr 2022Seed$1.9M
#8
Public · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 17 employees$24.7Mraised▾
Developer of AI and blockchain-based semiconductor ICs. It develops and delivers computation solutions as well as offers versatile processor architecture based on an array of thousands of simple but powerful CPU cores, integrated with memory and networking that have evolved for efficient blockchain applications, enabling users and innovators to develop breakthrough products for the marketplace.
- Apr 2025Post IPO$3M
- Aug 2024Post IPO$303.5K
- Apr 2024Post IPO$177.2K
- Dec 2023Post IPO$686.4K
#9
Seed · Dallas, Texas · founded 2022$5Mraised▾
Developer of artificial general intelligence models for defense, government, and commercial sectors. The company develops artificial general intelligence that requires no training and uses minimal compute power. The AGI models outperform today’s LLMs and LRMs. The company focuses on transforming defense, government, and commercial operations with its AGI technology. It also contributes to the democratization of AI by sharing its models with the Hugging Face community.
- Aug 2025Seed$5M
#10
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2025$8.5Mraised▾
AI-powered synthetic data engine solutions. Its technology operates on natural-language guided generation. Users can share the ideal schema for new dataset and a natural language prompt to guide the generation of a domain relevant dataset.
- Jun 2025Seed$8.5M
#11
Seed · Dallas, Texas · founded 2023$7.6Mraised▾
Verax AI enforces secure, compliant AI use across human users and AI agents with enterprise-wide visibility and control, providing the governance and trust required to realize the full value of AI.
- Oct 2024Seed$7.6M
#12
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2011 · 26 employees$41.7Mraised▾
Provider of drone-based autonomous perception systems for inventory visibility. The system comprises an indoor drone that leverages computer vision to scan dry shelves and coolers for looking at out-of-stock items. It collects data and processes by a companion web-based dashboard for actionable data such as comparisons between shelf performance of a major brand against a competitor, stockouts, share of shelf, and other shelf conditions impacting revenue.
- Dec 2023Series B$13.5M
- Jun 2021Series A$11M
- Nov 2019Seed$10M
- Jan 2019Seed$5M
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What Texas researches in ai accelerators
- The University of Texas at Dallas10
- The University of Texas at San Antonio7
- The University of Texas at Austin6
- Texas A&M University3
- The University of Texas at Arlington2