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Best GovTech Companies in Texas, United States

The 97 best GovTech companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Securus Technologies.

97companies tracked
$731.3Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised

Ranked: Best GovTech companies in Texas

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
13D THEA
Provider of AI-powered weapon detection systems
———David Rodriguez
Co-Founder & CEO
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2AdComp Systems
Provider of cloud-based ERP software for government and cities
——36—WordPressMySQLPHP+32Top 10M——
3adyton
Adyton provides mission-driven mobile technology to the defense, public safety & heavy industry.
——29————1 launch
4AI4Govt
Developer of an open workflow platform for government operational efficiency
——5—————
5AlertFind
Cloud-based emergency & mass notification alerts system
———Scott Brighton
CEO
WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+16Top 50M——
6Aspira
Outdoor recreation software solutions for seamless management and inspiring outdoor adventures
——1,000—Craft CMSApple iCloud MailPHP+12Top 5M——
7authentix
Authentix is a provider of brand protection, excise tax recovery, and supply chain security solutions.
——299Bernard Bailey
Chairman & CEO
WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+30Top 5M170 patents
Advanced diffractive and metamaterial optical displays for security and authentication.
1 award
8BidPrime
Cloud-based platform providing information on various government procurement projects and bids
——28Stephen Hetzel
Co-Founder
Amazon ALBReactNginx+9Top 1M—1 launch

Top 12 GovTech companies in Texas

#1
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 41 employees
$23.1Mraised
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Provider of voter registration, data, and engagement solutions for campaigns. It delivers voter registration campaigns that inform and guide voters. The company provides actionable insights on registered and unregistered voters. It enables direct voter outreach at scale for informing voters.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series B$2.7M
  • Dec 2022Series B$13.1M
  • Nov 2021Series A$10M
Founders & team
Jeremy SmithFounder & CEO
Investors
Higher Ground Labs, Scout Ventures, Gaingels, Spring St. Group, Academy Investor Network
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsElementorEmbed OptimizerEnhanced Responsive Images
#2
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2023
$2.7Mraised
▾

AI-based platform for legislation management. Users can access government meeting transcripts, videos, and legislation. The platform allows users to search by issue, code section, or bill number, enabling users to identify witness testimony and organizational stances. It uses AI for bill analysis, talking points, and amendments. Platform uses AI for providing real-time alerts on critical developments in committee hearings, legislative sessions, and state agency meetings.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Seed$2.7M
Founders & team
Eric DavisCEO
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#3
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2014 · 131 employees
$133.7Mraised
▾

Provider of cloud-native platform for unified emergency response and NextGen solutions. The platform delivers intelligent information and drives better outcomes in critical situations. It unifies a curated partner network of life-saving data and applications into a single platform. The company reimagines emergency response with a combination of mapping and analytics solutions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 16k LinkedIn followers — 6.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Critical Response Group) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2023Series C—
  • Jan 2023Series B$34M
  • May 2022Series B—
  • Aug 2021Series B$40M
Founders & team
Steven RaucherCo-founder & CEO
Investors
HAVAIC, Edison Partners, GreatPoint Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, GM Ventures, Ericsson
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDropboxGoogle Analytics
#4
Acquired · Dallas, Texas · founded 1986 · 853 employees
$404Mraised
▾

Technology solutions connecting incarcerated individuals with families, public safety, and corrections. The company provides technology solutions for investigative, corrections, monitoring, and payment needs. Investigative solutions offer data analytics and voice biometric analysis. Corrections solutions focus on modernizing the incarceration experience. Monitoring solutions deliver comprehensive electronic monitoring for community corrections, law enforcement, and courts. Payment solutions facilitate payments for court fines, child support, and other obligations. The company aims to connect what matters through public safety solutions designed to help law enforcement agencies collect, consolidate, visualize, store, and distribute information in real time. The company offers various platforms, including communication, information management, incarcerated individual self-service, and terminal hardware. The company's mission is to serve and connect to make the world safe, focusing on innovation, exceptional customer service, and trustworthiness.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 20k LinkedIn followers — 8.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • 2010Conventional Debt$210M
  • Conventional Debt$194M
Investors
NewStar Financial, Apollo Investment Corporation, Chatham Capital, HarbourVest Partners, Castle Harlan
Tech stack
AlgoliaAmchartsAnimate.CssBuilder.IoCdnjsCloudflare
#5
Acqui-Hired · Plano, Texas · founded 2007 · 7271 employees
$54.9Mraised
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Socrata is a Seattle-based cloud software company, focused exclusively on democratizing access to government data. Socrata invented 'Socrata API Foundry' to make the rapid implementation of an API-first, digital strategy at scale, easy and cost-effective to empowers a business analyst to create an open developer-ready API in minutes, enables administrators to optimize APIs for different access and workload patterns, supports device-agnostic security and privacy controls, with metadata management and turnkey cloud infrastructure scales elastically to handle fluctuating demand.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2017Series C—
  • Nov 2014Series C$30M
  • Sep 2013Series B—
  • Jun 2013Series B$18.4M
Investors
Delta-v Capital, OpenView, Morgenthaler, Frazier Technology Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Sapphire Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon ElbAmazon Web ServicesAngularjsBabel
#6
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 1912 · 100 employees
$40Mraised
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Hart InterCivic is a provider of hardware and software for elections management to government agencies. Offers election cycle management through its product Verity and Hart Voting systems. Offers features for preparing, defining, voting, counting, reporting, and auditing. Voting types include paper ballot voting, electronic voting, by-mail voting, and convenience voting. Offers electronic poll book for voter authentication, absentee processing system, and ballot origination software system among others. Hawaii and Oklahoma are among the customers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Investors
H.I.G. Capital, TGF Management, CapStreet, Stratford Capital Partners, Palisades Growth Capital
#7
Acqui-Hired · Austin, Texas · founded 1989 · 33 employees
$30Mraised
▾

Calytera provides a platform to manage the government process. It allows users to improve user interface, automate and modernize business processes. It enables users to manage encryption, manage field contracts and permits. Other solutions include compliance management, licensing, information management and grants management.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2017PE$30M
Founders & team
Zeynep YoungCEO
Investors
BuildGroup, K1 Investment Management
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlMariadbPhpZurb FoundationVarnish
#8
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 14 employees
$5.5Mraised
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Developer of augmented reality platform for firefighting and emergency response. The platform enhances situational awareness and coordination on the fireground. It provides real-time video streams, location data, and visual communication to command personnel. The system aims to improve safety, speed, and efficiency in emergency operations.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 2.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. SAM Waterflow Systems) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2021Conventional Debt$5.5M
Founders & team
Mike RalstonCo-FounderBahar WadiaCo-Founder & CBOOmer HaciomerogluCo-Founder
Investors
Responder Corp, Super Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#9
Acqui-Hired · Austin, Texas · founded 1998 · 7 employees
$18.7Mraised
▾

Data distribution engine based adaptive mobility platform

Founders & team
John Canningtonex- CEO & PresidentLeela KazaCEO
Investors
Oak Investment Partners, Austin Ventures, Nokia
Tech stack
Concrete CmsPhpApache Http ServerTypekitJqueryGoogle Analytics
#10
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 51 employees
$5.5Mraised
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Provider of AI-driven security management solution for buildings. The solution is in the form of a machine learning layer that employs a graphics card and computer vision to detect dangerous objects, alerting administrators (or the police) via an app when a threat’s detected. It employs a hybrid processing model that performs the bulk of inference on-premises, which gives it the advantage of being able to interface with third-party systems to lock doors, halt elevators, and communicate with people on site. It has applications in the areas of schools and education and retail sectors.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 2.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2019Seed$5.5M
  • 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Christopher CiabarraCo-Founder and Chief AI ArchitectLisa FalzoneCo-Founder
Investors
Pathfinder Venture Capital Funds, XFactor Ventures, NOMO Ventures, Cleo Capital, Capital Factory, Lisle Technology Partners
Tech stack
AdrollAdroll Cmp SystemApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser Insights
#11
Acquired · Dallas, Texas · founded 2002 · 470 employees
$6.5Mraised
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WatchGuard Video provides video evidence recording and sharing solutions. It offers in-car audio and video recording systems, body-cameras, evidence management and live video streaming software. Evidence video captured through patrol car cameras can be automatically uploaded to evidence storage system for further processing. Officers can set the cameras on continuous background recording and extract a stored video to serve as admissible evidence. It's evidence management system, deployed on-premise or in the cloud, offers audio and video redaction. The company claims to serve 6,000 law enforcement agencies and holds 15 patents.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2016Series A—
  • Jun 2008Conventional Debt—
  • Jun 2008Series A$6.5M
Investors
Peninsula Capital Partners, Valesco
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerImpervaHstsAmazon Cloudfront
#12
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2001 · 112 employees
$4.5Mraised
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Offers web-based e-Procurement solutions. It provides procurement solutions for government organizations and businesses through BuySpeed and BidSync offerings. BuySpeed is the procure-to-pay solution with major customers being government agencies. It provides a bid notification and management system for government agencies. Manages National Institute of Government Purchasing commodity code.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2006Series A$4.5M
  • PE—
Investors
Parthenon Capital, Tritonfinancial
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsCraft Cms

Funding & investor landscape

$731.3Mtotal disclosed funding
18companies funded
28disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Capital Factory2 rounds
HarbourVest Partners2 rounds
MassChallenge2 rounds
Techstars2 rounds
2M Companies1 rounds
Academy Investor Network1 rounds
AccelerateBaltimore1 rounds
Apollo Investment Corporation1 rounds
Austin Technology Incubator1 rounds
Austin Ventures1 rounds

Notable founders

Jeremy Smith
Founder & CEO · Civitech
Eric Davis
CEO · USLege
Steven Raucher
Co-founder & CEO · RapidDeploy
Zeynep Young
CEO · Calytera
Mike Ralston
Co-Founder · Qwake
Bahar Wadia
Co-Founder & CBO · Qwake
John Cannington
ex- CEO & President · @hand
Leela Kaza
CEO · @hand
Christopher Ciabarra
Co-Founder and Chief AI Architect · Athena Security
Lisa Falzone
Co-Founder · Athena Security
James Castro
CEO & President · Texas Juvenile Justice Department
Beto Altamirano
Co-Founder & CEO · Irys
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,182,217 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of GovTech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many GovTech companies are there in Texas, United States?
Radar tracks 97 indexable GovTech companies headquartered in Texas, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by GovTech companies in Texas, United States?
The GovTech companies in Texas, United States on this list have raised a combined $731.3M in disclosed equity funding across 18 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded GovTech company in Texas, United States?
Securus Technologies is the highest-funded GovTech company in Texas, United States, with $404M in disclosed equity funding.
How many GovTech companies in Texas, United States are funded?
18 of the 97 GovTech companies in Texas, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many GovTech unicorns are there in Texas, United States?
None of the GovTech companies in Texas, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Texas, United States GovTech companies?
The most active investors in Texas, United States GovTech companies on this list include Capital Factory, HarbourVest Partners, MassChallenge, Techstars, 2M Companies.
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