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Best Artificial Intelligence Companies in Austin, United States
The 118 best Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Saronic.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
118companies tracked
$1.4Bdisclosed funding
3unicorns
53have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE × AUSTIN
Our analysis of 101 Artificial Intelligence companies
$80.5b in tracked funding; 99% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
101companies analysed
99%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
49unicorns
2020median founding year
542kcombined LinkedIn audience
47%of audience held by top 3
4companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saronic 🦄 Developer of autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime forces 78Funding top 18%AI top 20%Moat top 26%Growth top 30% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% AItop 20% Moattop 26% Growthtop 30% Talenttop 33% Newstop 34% Techtop 47% Marketbottom 48% Globalbottom 44% Funding: Raised $230M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $230M | 2 mo ago | Series D | 32 | Doug Lambert Co-Founder & COO | Apple iCloud MailNode.jsSalesforce+15 | — | 2 launchs |
| 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 | Series D | 360 | Dave Fick CTO & Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | 104 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Jasper AI 🦄 AI and SaaS-based platform for content creation | $143M | 48 mo ago | Series A | 174 | Chris Hull Co-Founder | WebflowSentryZendesk+34 | 70 patents Mobile subscriber identity management and geographically targeted wireless service provisioning | 2 launchs |
| 4 | Tethr Platform providing speech analytics using natural language processing | $91M | 54 mo ago | Series B | 63 | — | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — | — |
| 5 | One Model Provider of people analytics platform, offering data integration and visualization | $84M | 32 mo ago | Series A | 116 | Chris Butler Co-Founder & CEO | SentryBootstrapStripe+14 | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | HiddenLayer Offering threat detection solutions to protect AI models | $56M | 33 mo ago | Series A | 50 | James Ballard Co-Founder and CIO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20 | 79 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 7 | Command Zero Developer of an autonomous and AI-assisted platform for cyber investigations | $51M | 12 mo ago | Series A | 30 | Dean Beer Co-Founder | WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+14 | — | — |
| 8 | ClosedLoop Provider of an AI-based risk predictive platform for payers, providers & pharma | $48M | 58 mo ago | Series B | 81 | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | 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 | Series C | 378 | Peter Wang Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+37 | — | — |
| 10 | Pensa Systems Provider of drone-based autonomous perception systems for inventory visibility | $42M | 29 mo ago | Series B | 26 | Pinar Kaprali Co-Founder & Head of Product | — | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 11 | Cognitive Scale Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions | $37M | 108 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 71 | Jennifer Crow CFO | — | 307 patents Enterprise AI model explainability, governance, and cognitive profiling platforms | — |
| 12 | 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 | Series D | 74 | Eric Korman Co-Founder & CSO | — | 2 patents Automated data and workflow lineage tracking for data integration pipelines | — |
| 13 | Circuit Provider of an AI-powered knowledge network for industrial enterprises and SMBs | $30M | 4 mo ago | Seed | — | Matt Weiss Co-Founder and CFO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27 | — | 2 job openings · 1 award |
| 14 | Conversenow Ai Developer of voice artificial intelligence solutions for the restaurant industry | $29M | 46 mo ago | Series A | 80 | Vinay Shukla Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 15 | StrongBox Data Solutions Cognitive data management solutions | $27M | 103 mo ago | Series B | 35 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | 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 | Public | 17 | Ron Dell CEO | WordPress Block EditorDiviWordPress+27 | — | 3 job openings |
| 17 | AI Clearing AI-driven progress monitoring software for construction professionals | $19M | 32 mo ago | Series A | 60 | Adam Wisniewski Co-Founder | WebflowTypekitGoogle Font API+12 | 20 patents AI-driven data processing for construction site monitoring and automated trade settlement | — |
| 18 | Numbers Station Cloud, AI and NLP-based data workflow automation platform for enterprises | $18M | 39 mo ago | Acquired | 18 | Ines Chami Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 19 | Insight Health Developer of AI clinical agents for healthcare administrative and clinical tasks 78AI top 8%Talent top 23%Funding top 27%Tech top 27% All 7 signals ▾AItop 8% Talenttop 23% Fundingtop 27% Techtop 27% Growthtop 35% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 33% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Talent: 5 named leaders on record · 5 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $16M | 2 mo ago | Series A | — | Jaimal Soni Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailAmazon Web Services+31 | — | 1 partnership |
| 20 | Extropic Hardware platform to build substrate for generative AI | $14M | 30 mo ago | Seed | — | Guillaume Verdon Founder & CEO | SanityNode.jsTailwind CSS+13 | 54 patents Probabilistic and thermodynamic computing hardware for sampling and inference | — |
| 21 | Yonder Cloud and AI based solutions for identifying misinformation across internet | $14M | 83 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Brightpick Provider of warehouse automation solutions using artificial intelligence powered robots | $12M | 19 mo ago | Series B | 72 | Michal Maly Co-Founder & Head of AI | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | — | 1 partnership |
| 23 | 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 | Series A | 18 | Vignesh Karumbaya Co-Founder & COO | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 3 patents Content provenance identification and AI governance for machine‑learning systems | — |
| 24 | Cycorp AI based automated reasoning infrastructure | $10M | 107 mo ago | Series B | 36 | Douglas Lenat CEO & Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 25 | 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 | Series A | 5 | Patrick Bowen Co-Founder & CEO | WixSentryApple iCloud Mail+13 | 21 patents Optical analog computing hardware using metasurfaces and tunable liquid‑crystal metamaterials | — |
| 26 | Waldo Photo delivery platform based on facial recognition | $9M | 90 mo ago | Seed | 24 | Rodney Rice Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | — | 1 launch |
| 27 | DryRun Security Provider of AI-native static application security testing for code reviews | $9M | 20 mo ago | Seed | — | James Wickett Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — | — |
| 28 | 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 | Seed | — | Andi Partovi Co-Founder | — | 185 patents Power distribution monitoring and metering, including branch current sensing and fault detection. | — |
| 29 | RapidCanvas Provider of an AI platform and agentic AI solutions for enterprises | $8M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 4 | Uttam Phalnikar Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+21 | — | — |
| 30 | Senseye Provider of a smartphone-based mental health diagnostic platform 42Innovation top 24%Patents top 28%AI top 35%Funding top 38% All 9 signals ▾Innovationtop 24% Patentstop 28% AItop 35% Fundingtop 38% Moattop 45% Talentbottom 45% Globalbottom 40% Techbottom 32% Marketbottom 23% Innovation: 29 patents (top 36% of patent-holders) · 20 filings since 2022 vs 9 in 2017-21 Patents: 29 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 20 filings since 2022 vs 9 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $7M | 9 mo ago | Series B | 15 | David Zakariaie Founder & CEO | — | 29 patents Eye‑based imaging for deception detection, mental‑health monitoring, and learning optimization | — |
| 31 | Contoro Robotics Provider of robotic solutions for autonomous trailer and container unloading | $6M | 15 mo ago | Series A | 16 | Youngmok Yun Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | — |
| 32 | Synthefy Developer of a multimodal time series platform using generative AI | $6M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | Sandeep Chinchali Co-Founder | — | — | 4 launchs |
| 33 | Athena Security Provider of AI-driven security management solution for buildings | $6M | 84 mo ago | Seed | 51 | Christopher Ciabarra Co-Founder and Chief AI Architect | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+43 | — | — |
| 34 | Modern Intelligence Developer of AI-based countermeasure solutions for the military | $5M | 51 mo ago | Seed | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| 35 | Troveo Platform offering digital rights management solutions | $4M | 19 mo ago | Seed | — | Marty Pesis Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackSentryNode.js+17 | — | — |
| 36 | Evoke Security Provider of AI security platform to discover, monitor, and secure agentic risks | $4M | 3 mo ago | Seed | — | Jason Rebholz Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailReact+7 | — | — |
| 37 | Trustwise Provider of AI trust and control solutions for agentic AI systems | $4M | 4 mo ago | Series A | — | Manoj Saxena Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+20 | 6 patents Safety, alignment, analytics, and RAG optimization for generative AI models. | 1 partnership |
| 38 | Uprizer Labs Consulting and product development company specializing in email protection and computation | $4M | 304 mo ago | Seed | 11 | Ian Clarke Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 39 | Humata Developer of an AI platform for document summarization and question answering | $4M | 32 mo ago | Seed | 7 | Dan Rasmuson Co-Founder & CTO | Node.jsMUIReact+13 | — | — |
| 40 | Pratexo Provider of an edge computing platform for AI and IoT applications | $4M | 33 mo ago | Series A | 26 | Petter Graff Co-Founder & CTO | — | 5 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 41 | Optelos Platform offering AI powered image data analytics solutions | $3M | 44 mo ago | Series A | 23 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | 1 launch |
| 42 | Ruli AI Provider of AI-powered legal solutions 48AI top 30%Talent top 33%Tech top 42%Funding top 46% All 7 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 33% Techtop 42% Fundingtop 46% Moatbottom 38% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 32% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $2M | 7 mo ago | Seed | — | Bryan Lee Co-Founder & CEO | SentryNode.jsRadix UI+9 | — | 1 launch |
| 43 | Dappier Platform for users to create and monetize AI chatbots and data models | $2M | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | Dan Goikhman Co-Founder | Google Sign-inMUITailwind CSS+15 | — | 1 launch |
| 44 | NeuroX1 Computational drug design platform for neurological conditions | $2M | 24 mo ago | Seed | 7 | Lucas Myers Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 45 | Sumatra AI based platform offering data pipeline preparation solutions | $2M | 47 mo ago | Seed | 67 | Lucas McGrew Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 46 | Otrafy Provider of an AI platform for supplier management and regulatory automation | $1M | 44 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Lucas Cunha Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 47 | PureCode AI generated open source UI component library | $1000K | 45 mo ago | Seed | — | Edward Daniel Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsClerkRadix UI+17 | — | — |
| 48 | Lorykeet Provider of AI governance, risk, and compliance management solutions | $225K | 83 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Sam Nayak Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 49 | Locus Insights Eye tracking software to track user experience on mobile advertisements | $120K | 96 mo ago | Seed | 6 | Tom Jackson Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 50 | Socialmatters AI based platform offering lead generation solutions | $100K | — | Deadpooled | 9 | JD Chang Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin
#1
Saronic 🦄Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2022 · 32 employees$230.5Mraised▾
Saronic 🦄
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2022 · 32 employees
Developer of autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime forces. These vessels enhance awareness, extend reach, and improve survivability in diverse operational environments. The autonomous surface vessels navigate using adaptive path planning and identify targets with advanced algorithms. They leverage resilient communications to enable manned and unmanned teaming. The vessels deliver user-defined effects with payload integrations and adapt to mission-specific requirements.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 18%AI
top 20%Moat
top 26%Growth
top 30%Talent
top 33%News
top 34%Funding: Raised $230M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) · Last round Series D (Mar 2026)
AI: Classified as an AI company
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 9/10 · Unicorn · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 75k LinkedIn followers — 13.8% of this cohort's audience · 587 engagements/post (24.0× cohort median)
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series D$1.8B
- Feb 2025Series C$600M
- Jun 2024Series B$175.5M
- Oct 2023Series A$55M
Founders & team
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Caffeinated Capital, NightDragon, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Point72 Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailDocusignGoogle Analytics
#2
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 360 employees$178Mraised▾
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 360 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 17%AI
top 25%Patents
top 37%News
top 37%Innovation
top 43%Moat
top 44%Funding: Raised $178M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 10 yrs (0.9/yr) · Last round Series D (Dec 2025)
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Patents: 104 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 44 filings since 2022 vs 60 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2026
Audience (LinkedIn): 17k LinkedIn followers — 3.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Series D$125M
- Mar 2023Series C$13M
- May 2021Series C$70M
- May 2019Series B$3M
Founders & team
Investors
BlackRock, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, Alumni Ventures, UDC Ventures, DFJ, Lux Capital
Tech stack
AddtoanyAddtoany Share ButtonsAmazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssApple Icloud MailBeaver Builder
#3
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 74 employees$33Mraised▾
Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 74 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 20%Talent
top 28%AI
top 30%Funding
top 32%Market
top 46%Moat
top 47%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
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series D$18M
- Jun 2023Series C$33M
Founders & team
Investors
Centana Growth Partners, Washington Harbour Partners
#4
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2024$30Mraised▾
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2024
Provider of an AI-powered knowledge network for industrial enterprises and SMBs. The network transforms documentation into an assistant, providing answers to internal and external partners. It extracts answers from technical content, including figures, tables, and exploded views. The platform creates secure, AI-enabled circuits that scale across teams and topics. It offers secure, topic-specific collaboration, granular permissions, and data encryption. The network integrates with platforms like Google Drive, OneDrive, and Confluence.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Principal Engineer, ML Systems, Senior Product Manager
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Angel$30M
Founders & team
Investors
Tensility Venture Partner
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAosApple Icloud MailCalendlyCloudflare
#5
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2023$15.6Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2023
Developer of AI clinical agents for healthcare administrative and clinical tasks. The company offers AI agents that handle tasks from patient intake to ongoing care. These agents assist with primary care intake, annual wellness visits, colonoscopy recall, and direct access colonoscopy. The AI agents also support pain and spine intake, neurosurgery referrals, phone triage, fax management, and virtual care.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 8%Talent
top 23%Funding
top 27%Tech
top 27%Growth
top 35%Market
bottom 40%AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Talent: 5 named leaders on record · 5 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $15.6M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 9k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. AdvancedMD Marketplace) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series A$11M
- Jun 2025Seed$4.6M
Founders & team
Investors
Kindred Ventures, Wedbush Ventures, RTP Global, MKT1, Standard Capital, Pear VC
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflare
#6
Anaconda 🦄Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 378 employees$41.8Mraised▾
Anaconda 🦄
Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 378 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 93how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 20%News
top 22%Funding
top 23%Talent
top 23%Innovation
top 25%Market
top 29%Tech: 81 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services · Devops: Envoy, Nginx
News: 5 BI events in 12 mo (of 19 tracked, 7 types) · 3 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo · Top themes: Capital raise, Funding, M&A
Funding: Raised $41.8M across 12 rounds · 12 rounds over 14 yrs (0.9/yr) · Last round Series C (Jul 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 105k LinkedIn followers — 19.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Jul 2025Series C$150M
- Sep 2021Series B—
- Dec 2018Series B$17.5M
- Aug 2018Series B—
Founders & team
Investors
DARPA, SVB, General Catalyst, BuildGroup, Snowflake, Citi Ventures
Tech stack
AppcuesApple Icloud MailBootstrapCart FunctionalityCdnjsChili Piper
#7
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 30 employees$51.5Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 30 employees
Developer of an autonomous and AI-assisted platform for cyber investigations. The platform provides expert knowledge, processes, and tools to complement security operations teams. Analysts can review complete investigations, expand on autonomous sequences, and conduct bespoke user-led inquiries. It builds incident timelines and reports, captures investigation steps, and implements best practices for consistent outcomes. The platform also speeds up analyst onboarding.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Jun 2025Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2025Series A$10M
- Mar 2025Seed$5M
- Jul 2024Seed$21M
Founders & team
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, Okta, SE Ventures, Crosspoint Capital Partners
#8
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 5 employees$10Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 5 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 18%Patents
top 34%Innovation
top 35%Funding
top 37%Moat
top 38%Tech
top 50%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 · Latest publication 2026
Innovation: 21 patents (top 51% of patent-holders) · 18 filings since 2022 vs 3 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence, Tech Hardware
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Nov 2025Series A$110M
- Oct 2023Seed$7.2M
- 2021Convertible Debt$1M
- 2020Seed$1.8M
Founders & team
Investors
MetaVC Partners, Mana Ventures, Gates Frontier, M12, Carbon Direct Capital, Aramco Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Workspace
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2025$4Mraised▾
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2025
Provider of AI security platform to discover, monitor, and secure agentic risks. The platform offers detection and response through monitoring agent intent and behavior. It also provides security posture management via threat modeling of AI risk. The platform inventories agents and tools, maps agentic workflows, and identifies risky configurations.
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Seed$4M
Founders & team
Investors
Crosspoint Capital Partners, Red Cell Partners
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag ManagerHsts
#10
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2022$4Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2022
Provider of AI trust and control solutions for agentic AI systems. The company offers solutions to minimize the trust gap throughout the AI lifecycle. These solutions include simulation, verification, optimization, and governance. The company delivers runtime trust and oversight to agents, models, and clouds. It provides AI shields to stop misuse and enforce trust. The company embeds trust through APIs, SDKs, MCPs, and Guardian Agents.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Hybrid Cloud) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Series A$12.1M
- Jun 2024Seed$4M
Founders & team
Investors
Hitachi Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, Grit Ventures
#11
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 18 employees$11.3Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 18 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%Tech
top 30%AI
top 30%Growth
top 35%Funding
top 36%Innovation
top 45%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 · Security: Hsts, Http/3
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: llm
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Sep 2025Series A$9.5M
- Apr 2022Seed$1.9M
Founders & team
Investors
AllegisCyber Capital, Alumni Ventures, DOMiNO Ventures, DataPower Ventures, 10X Capital, Machina Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerCookieyesCore-Js
#12
Public · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 17 employees$24.7Mraised▾
Public · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 17 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 42how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Funding
top 31%Growth
top 47%News
top 49%Talent
bottom 49%Tech
bottom 48%AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $24.7M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 4 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Post IPO (Apr 2025)
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers
Hiring (LinkedIn): 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +3 · hiring: Director of Hardware Engineering, DFT Engineer
Funding rounds
- Apr 2025Post IPO$3M
- Aug 2024Post IPO$303.5K
- Apr 2024Post IPO$177.2K
- Dec 2023Post IPO$686.4K
Founders & team
Investors
Humla
Tech stack
Contact Form 7Core-JsDiviFont AwesomeGodaddyGoogle Analytics
Funding & investor landscape
$1.4Btotal disclosed funding
51companies funded
128disclosed rounds
2rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Techstars5 rounds
Insight Partners3 rounds
Bessemer Venture Partners2 rounds
Notable founders
Doug Lambert
Co-Founder & COO · Saronic
Dino Mavrookas
Co-Founder & CEO · Saronic
Dave Fick
CTO & Co-Founder · Mythic
Eric Korman
Co-Founder & CSO · Striveworks
Anthony Manganiello
Co Founder · Striveworks
Matt Weiss
Co-Founder and CFO · Circuit
Jackie Padgett
Co-Founder & Chief People Officer · Circuit
Jaimal Soni
Co-Founder & CEO · Insight Health
Saran S
Co-Founder & President · Insight Health
Peter Wang
Co-Founder · Anaconda
Seth Clark
VP of Product · Anaconda
Dean Beer
Co-Founder · Command Zero
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,646,585 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Artificial Intelligence coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH IN AUSTIN · AI & Compute
How research on Artificial Intelligence in Austin is moving
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence in Austin — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 63 papers.
UT Austin leads Austin's AI research—focused on image quality, fusion, and multimodal learning—with an optimistic tone (mean stance 0.58, 36 breakthroughs versus 6 concerns).
63 papers · stance +0.58 · 67% breakthrough · 11% concern
top institutions
- The University of Texas at Austin60
- Austin Independent School District2
- Austin Health1
- Austin College1
- IBM Research - Austin1
leading researchers
Alan C. Bovik · Anush K. Moorthy · A. Mittal · Hengfa Lu · J.K. Aggarwal · James W. Pennebaker
prism intelligence · tone & topics
97% positive · 2% critical tone
Machine LearningComputer ScienceSoftwareStatisticsData ScienceNeuroscience
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Breakthroughs36 · 57%
▼ 60%→57% share
▼0.9× share momentum1,194 median citations47% since 2021mostly methods-led
Pattern recognition research is intensifying — image quality and computer vision papers dominate 57% of Austin AI output.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Image quality7
- Pattern recognition (psychology)6
- Computer vision4
- Distortion (music)4
- Benchmark (surveying)3
Landmark Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer · 6,134 cites
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Advancements12 · 19%
▲ 17%→23% share
▲1.4× share momentum0 median citations58% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements segment grew 17%->23%; variety and regularization topics newly emerging across cybernetics and linguistics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Variety (cybernetics)2
- Regularization (linguistics)2
- Character animation1
- Animation1
- Character (mathematics)1
Landmark Ecological niche modeling in Maxent: the importance of model complexity and the performance of model selection criteria · 2,233 cites
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Concerns6 · 10%
▼ 13%→0% share
2,082 median citations0% since 2021mostly position pieces
Concerns segment collapsed 13%->0%; neuroplasticity and neuroscience topics fading from Austin AI research entirely.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Variety (cybernetics)2
- Neuroplasticity1
- Neuroscience1
- Rehabilitation1
- Neurorehabilitation1
Landmark Mean squared error: Love it or leave it? A new look at Signal Fidelity Measures · 3,070 cites
Common questions
How many Artificial Intelligence companies are there in Austin, United States?
Radar tracks 118 indexable Artificial Intelligence companies headquartered in Austin, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin, United States?
The Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin, United States on this list have raised a combined $1.4B in disclosed equity funding across 51 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Austin, United States?
Saronic is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Austin, United States, with $230.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin, United States are funded?
51 of the 118 Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Artificial Intelligence unicorns are there in Austin, United States?
3 Artificial Intelligence companies in Austin, United States on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Austin, United States Artificial Intelligence companies?
The most active investors in Austin, United States Artificial Intelligence companies on this list include Capital Factory, Techstars, Alumni Ventures, Geekdom Fund, Insight Partners.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.