Best Enterprise Storage Companies in Texas, United States
The 45 best Enterprise Storage companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Dell.
Ranked: Best Enterprise Storage companies in Texas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dell Provider of enterprise servers and cloud solutions 91Market top 8%Tech top 12%Innovation top 22%Global top 24% All 13 signals ▾Markettop 8% Techtop 12% Innovationtop 22% Globaltop 24% Talenttop 26% Partnerstop 32% Moattop 32% Patentstop 34% Fundingtop 38% Newstop 46% Producttop 47% Growthbottom 48% Customersbottom 45% Market: 40,000 employees (top 1% of Cloud Infrastructure) · Top-5,000 web property Tech: 111 technologies across 7/8 capability areas · Cloud: Akamai, Amazon Cloudfront rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 91/100 | $23.8B | 76 mo ago | Public | Michael Saul Founder & CEO | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailBootstrap+34 | 44 patents Modular rack power distribution, cooling, and management for scalable data center servers. | — |
| 2 | Nimble Storage Primary Storage,Backup,Disaster Recovery | $99M | 152 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | 116 patents Flash-based storage caching, write throttling, and I/O optimization for enterprise arrays | — |
| 3 | AlterPoint Network governance software | $39M | 237 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Scott Harmon Ex-CEO & President | 2001 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Caringo Software-defined storage solutions maximizing data availability, access, and protection | $33M | 96 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2005 | — | 68 patents Distributed object storage with erasure coding, replication, and dynamic endpoint mounting. | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 5 | Mangstor Manufacturer of all flash arrays | $26M | 108 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | 12 patents High‑performance storage controllers with self‑encrypting SSDs, hierarchical FTL, and MRAM journaling | — |
| 6 | InfiniteIO Storage controller for distributed storage systems | $18M | 95 mo ago | Deadpooled | David Sommer Co-Founder | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 7 | CyberFortress Cloud based platform offering data backup and recovery solutions | $14M | 59 mo ago | Seed | Wade Alt CEO | 2006 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+31 | 3 patents Real-time network vulnerability profiling via time‑series analysis of data streams | — |
| 8 | Storspeed Inc. Flash File cacher. | $13M | 230 mo ago | Deadpooled | Mark Cree CEO & Founder | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Nimboxx Software Defined Data-center-in-a box for SMBs | $12M | 146 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Cache IQ Network Storage Solutions | $11M | 167 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2010 | — | 3 patents Modular protective floor pads for vehicles and bicycles | — |
| 11 | Infinite Storage monitoring and management solution for cloud | $10M | 95 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jay Rolette Ex- Co-Founder | 2012 | — | 24 patents Network performance monitoring and optimization for distributed storage and compute clusters | — |
| 12 | Spanning Provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for SaaS applications | $9M | 161 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2010 | RubyRuby on RailsEnvoy+15 | 2 patents Cross-chain blockchain interoperability for native token creation and issuance | — |
| 13 | DataSpan Provider of data storage and protection products | $5M | 345 mo ago | Late Stage | Paul Zaidins Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | 1974 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 14 | Connectloud Cloud host provider delivering news on marketplace, stocks, and mutual funds | $4M | 151 mo ago | Deadpooled | Zeeshan Naseh President and CEO | 2013 | — | 100 patents Multi-tenant cloud service catalog, usage metering, billing, and analytics platforms | — |
| 15 | Mezeo Software Provider of a cloud storage platform | $4M | 168 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 16 | EXTEN Technologies High performance storage solution based on NVMe over Fabrics | $755K | 83 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Craig Gilmore CEO & President | 2012 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Enterprise Storage companies in Texas
#1
Public · Round Rock, Texas · founded 1984 · 40000 employees$23.8Braised▾
Provider of enterprise servers and cloud solutions. It offers a wide range of products, services, and support, including laptops, desktops, servers, storage, monitors, and gaming solutions, as well as software and financial services, aimed at individuals and businesses.
- Apr 2020Post IPO—
- Apr 2019Conventional Debt$3.6B
- Feb 2019Conventional Debt$8.2B
- 2016Unattributed—
#2
Seed · San Antonio, Texas · founded 2006 · 27 employees$14.2Mraised▾
CyberFortress provides a cloud based platform offering data backup and recovery solutions. The platform provides services including SaaS data backup and recovery, server backup and recovery, endpoint backup, etc. Additionally, it offers a full portfolio for catastrophe recovery.
- Sep 2021Conventional Debt—
- Oct 2019Seed$3.2M
- Jan 2017Seed—
- Jan 2016Seed$11M
#3
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2005 · 21 employees$33Mraised▾
Software-defined storage solutions maximizing data availability, access, and protection. The company delivers ultimate flexibility to control how you store, protect, and access data. They enhance performance and increase data availability. They transform the way businesses approach storage with software-defined storage solutions for SAN and HCI environments. Their solutions include block, object, file, and container storage, business continuity, disaster recovery, hyperconverged infrastructure, data protection, active archive, cybersecurity, infrastructure virtualization, high-performance computing, and persistent storage for Kubernetes. They offer a free trial of their SANsymphony software. They provide support, training, and professional services to partners and customers. They are a B2B tech company offering software and SaaS solutions.
- Aug 2018Series B$3.4M
- Sep 2016Series B$8.8M
- Apr 2016Conventional Debt$1.5M
- May 2010Series A$5M
#4
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2011 · 22 employees$26.3Mraised▾
Mangstor is a leading developer of NVMe based flash storage solutions. Products offered by the company provide acceleration to application workloads in web-scale and enterprise data centers. Mangstor's NVMe over Fabric Flash Storage Arrays and NVMe Solid-State devices provide the building blocks necessary for high-performance, highly-available, and cost-effective storage infrastructure. Based in Austin, Mangstor has DataStax, Toshiba as few of its partners. It was awarded the Best of Flash Memory Summit '15. It has also announced along with Nimbix to provide converged platforms as a service.
- Aug 2017Series B$7.1M
- Jul 2016Series B$5M
- Sep 2015Series B$10.2M
- Jul 2013Series A$4M
#5
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2012$18.1Mraised▾
Infinite io is a storage controller for distributed storage systems for an enterprise. Their product NSC- 110 which is flash optimized, intelligently managed data between distributed storage. It moves inactive data to low-cost storage and increases the performance of hot data by providing it from in-built flash storage, all these policies can be set by IT admins. Its the 1st company to launch a network based storage controller. It is the 1st network based storage controller. Founded in 2014, it was incubated at Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs. Pricing starts at $50K and varies by configuration.
- Aug 2018Series B$11.7M
- Dec 2017Series A$3M
- 2015Series A$3.4M
#6
Acqui-Hired · Austin, Texas · founded 2001 · 9 employees$39Mraised▾
AlterPoint is a network configuration and change management (NCCM) software. Using its adapters, AlertPoint sends and receives configuration details to/from network devices and keeps a backup of it.
- Nov 2006Series C$7.5M
- Jan 2005Series C$12M
- Jan 2004Series B$6M
- Jan 2003Series A$7.5M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 42 employees$755Kraised▾
EXTEN provides a high-performance storage solution based on NVMe over Fabrics. The EXTEN HyperDynamic software platform is hardware and CPU agnostic and provides the advance block-storage solution. Features of the platform include high performance, platform agnostic which enables to runs on any commodity hardware, support for RoCE, InfiniBand, iWARP, Omni-Path, and TCP/IP transport modes, and flexible platform integration. Partners include Dell. Intel, Samsung, VMware, and NVMexpress.
- Sep 2019Seed$755K
- Feb 2018Conventional Debt$400K
#8
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 11 employees$10.3Mraised▾
InfiniteIO provides a storage monitoring and management solution for the cloud. The products offered by the company are Hybrid Cloud Tiering and Metadata Accelerator. Hybrid Cloud Tiering optimize the storage space by moving cold or inactive data to any cloud storage to save money and extend the life of existing IT assets. Metadata Accelerator improves the performance of the storage space by reducing storage latency.
- Aug 2018Series B$10.3M
#9
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2007 · 15156 employees$98.8Mraised▾
Nimble Storage (NASDAQ : NMBL)solutions are built on the idea that enterprises should not have to compromise between performance, capacity, ease of management, and price. Nimble’s patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, designed from the ground up to effectively combine flash with high capacity drives, makes high performance affordable, simplifies and enhances disaster recovery and backup, and delivers stress-free operations. Nimble Storage is funded by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
#10
Deadpooled · Dallas, Texas · founded 2013 · 51 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Cloud host provider delivering news on marketplace, stocks, and mutual funds. It offers a platform for accessing current news and information related to marketplace activities, stock market updates, and mutual fund trends. The website serves as a resource for individuals seeking insights into financial markets and investment opportunities. It covers a range of topics including business, finance, and economic trends, providing users with valuable data to inform their decision-making. The platform aims to deliver timely and relevant news, keeping users informed about the latest developments in the financial world. It acts as a news aggregator, offering a centralized location for accessing information from various sources, focusing on cloud hosting, marketplace, stocks, mutual funds, financial news, investment insights, business trends, economic data, and news aggregation.
- Jan 2014Conventional Debt$250K
- Mar 2013Series A$750K
- Mar 2013Series A$3.6M
#11
Acqui-Hired · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 11 employees$11Mraised▾
CacheIQ offers caching for file-based storage. Its RapidCache is a NAS acceleration appliance of DRAM and SSD that delivers performance to I/O-intensive applications while relieving overburdened storage networks.
- Sep 2012Series A$5M
- Jan 2011Series A$6M
#12
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 54 employees$9Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for SaaS applications. The company delivers data protection for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce. It offers features such as comprehensive backups, simplified restore functionalities, and a user-friendly interface. The company empowers administrators and end users to restore data.
- Mar 2013Series B$6M
- Mar 2011Series A$2M
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How research on Memory Storage in Texas is moving
A read on the academic research around Memory Storage in Texas — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 234 papers.
- Texas A&M University85
- The University of Texas at Austin67
- The University of Texas at Dallas32
- Texas Instruments22
- The University of Texas at San Antonio12
- Throughput1→5
- Resistive random-access memory4→7
- Neuromorphic engineering2→5
- Scalability1→3
- Polarization (electrochemistry)1→3
- Non-volatile memory42
- Optoelectronics31
- Flash memory17
- Resistive random-access memory13
- Flash (photography)12
- Non-volatile memory12
- Embedded system6
- Cache5
- Flash (photography)5
- Dram4
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