Best Virtual Reality Companies in Austin, United States
The 32 best Virtual Reality companies in Austin, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Interplay Learning.
Our analysis of 50 Virtual Reality companies
$3.3b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2019.
Ranked: Best Virtual Reality companies in Austin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interplay Learning Provider of VR simulation-based online training solutions 67Funding top 26%Tech top 26%Product top 29%Growth top 37% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 26% Techtop 26% Producttop 29% Growthtop 37% Moattop 39% Markettop 45% AItop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 32% Newsbottom 21% Customersbottom 21% Funding: Raised $46.1M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 7 yrs (0.9/yr) Tech: 67 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $46M | 26 mo ago | Series C | 169 | Doug Donovan Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+46 | — | — |
| 2 | WIN Reality Developer of VR-based softball and baseball training solutions | $45M | 53 mo ago | Series C | 70 70 → 50 (-29%) | Chris O'Dowd Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+37 | — | — |
| 3 | Virtuix Omni Provider of a treadmill for moving freely and naturally in a VR game 35Tech top 21%Funding top 22%News top 25%Product top 28% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 21% Fundingtop 22% Newstop 25% Producttop 28% Moattop 31% Growthbottom 46% Marketbottom 42% Talentbottom 40% Globalbottom 37% Fin. healthbottom 28% Customersbottom 2% Tech: 65 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $43.4M across 13 rounds · 13 rounds over 12 yrs (1.1/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $43M | 5 mo ago | Public | 23 23 → 39 (+70%) | Jan Goetgeluk Founder & CEO | Builder.ioShopifySentry+30 | — | — |
| 4 | Wave Provider of virtual concert technology | $38M | 66 mo ago | Series B | 66 66 → 80 (+21%) | Mike Fischer Investor | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 24 patents Advanced antenna designs and network optimization for heterogeneous wireless communication systems | — |
| 5 | Rey Online platform offering VR-based therapeutic sessions for mental health management | $26M | 63 mo ago | Deadpooled | 43 | Deepak Gopalakrishnan Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 6 | OxfordVR Provider of virtual devices for the treatment of psychological health | $19M | 80 mo ago | Series A | 35 | Daniel Freeman Co-Founder | Apache HTTP ServerGoogle Font APIGoDaddy+1 | — | — |
| 7 | GOLF+ Provider of a VR training platform for golf players | $6M | 48 mo ago | Seed | 25 | Ryan Engle Founder and CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVisa+20 | 24 patents Real-time golf ball trajectory modeling and sensor‑based club fitting solutions | — |
| 8 | Owlchemy Labs XR studio crafting playful VR games and experiences with spatial interactions | $5M | 123 mo ago | Acquired | 50 | — | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+14 | — | — |
| 9 | Nitero Low power 60G Hz CMOS solutions | $3M | 172 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 51 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | AstroBeam VR game studio focused on multiplayer | $3M | 36 mo ago | Seed | — | Devin Reimer Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 11 | 3Data Provider of web based immersive data visualization tool providing AR and VR solutions | $1M | 74 mo ago | Seed | 12 | Tyler Cummings Co-Founder & COO | — | — | — |
| 12 | Thrill Box Offers a behavioural data analytics platform | $205K | 116 mo ago | Seed | 12 | Benjamin T. Durham Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 13 | Superpowered Cross-platform audio, networking, and cryptography SDKs for interactive app development | $120K | 116 mo ago | Acquired | — | Patrick Vlaskovits Cofounder & CEO | PleskNginxAMP+9 | 3 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 14 | DisruptED Provider of AR an VR-based learning toys | $25K | 76 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Kate Peiler Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 15 | Immersed Developer of a virtual reality application for remote work and collaboration 48Growth top 23%Tech top 33%Funding top 47%Fin. health bottom 49% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 23% Techtop 33% Fundingtop 47% Fin. healthbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Productbottom 45% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 33% Newsbottom 22% Customersbottom 21% Growth: Revenue +60% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 50 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $20K | 6 mo ago | Seed | 34 | Renji Bijoy Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceRuby+26 | — | — |
Top 12 Virtual Reality companies in Austin
#1
Public · Austin, Texas · founded 2013 · 23 employees$43.4Mraised▾
Provider of a treadmill for moving freely and naturally in a VR game. The motion-sensing treadmill allows users to stand up and traverse virtual worlds with the natural use of their own feet. The base of the Omni is a grooved, low-friction surface. It also offers special pinned shoes to keep the foot stabilized and prevent lateral sliding.
- Oct 2025Series A$1.3M
- Sep 2024Series A$500K
- Mar 2023Series A$411.2K
- Mar 2021Series A$278.4K
#2
Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 169 employees$46.1Mraised▾
Provider of a VR simulation-based online training solution. It enables students and professionals to build career skills and technical aptitude through courses that interconnect 3D & Virtual Reality (VR) simulations, video, procedure guides, and in-the-field apps to deliver training. Provides training for various fields including Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, and manufacturing. Used by education, government, career-certification, and industries.
- Sep 2024Series C$20M
- Feb 2021Series B$18M
- May 2020Series A$2.6M
- May 2019Series A$5.5M
#3
Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 70 employees$45Mraised▾
Developer of VR-based softball and baseball training solutions. It offers virtual reality software for baseball and softball training. Its platform features a dashboard with key performance insights and is compatible with Oculus devices. It is available for download from the Oculus App Lab.
- Jun 2022Series C$45M
- Sep 2021Conventional Debt$3.8M
#4
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 34 employees$20Kraised▾
Developer of a virtual reality application for remote work and collaboration. The application allows users to create multiple virtual monitors from a computer into virtual reality. It offers features such as private workspaces, screen sharing, and remote whiteboarding. The application is available for use with various virtual reality headsets.
- Apr 2026Seed$150K
- Jun 2025Seed$250K
- 2017Seed$20K
#5
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 66 employees$38.5Mraised▾
Waves provides virtual concert technology. Music creators and concert organizers can customize the venues from realistic night clubs to outer space with a single click button. It also creates digital fan avatars in such concerts.
- May 2021Series B—
- Nov 2020Series B—
- Jun 2020Series B$30M
- Apr 2018Series A$6M
#6
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 43 employees$26Mraised▾
Online platform offering VR-based therapeutic sessions for mental health management. The platform provides wearable headsets & virtual reality therapeutic sessions (cognitive behavioural therapy) for the users. Also, it allows users to receive guided coaching sessions from experts/psychiatrists to manage their mental health-related conditions. The platform also helps in medication management.
- Jul 2021Series A$10M
#7
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 35 employees$19.2Mraised▾
Provider of virtual devices for the treatment of psychological health. The company offers VR-based devices for cognitive therapy based on therapeutic techniques.
- Feb 2020Series A$13.5M
- Sep 2018Seed$4.2M
- Jan 2017Seed$1.5M
#8
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2023$3Mraised▾
VR game studio focused on multiplayer. It offers human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR. The company is emphasizing natural hand tracking and voice communication with both friends and non-playable characters (NPCs) to create a multiplayer VR environment.
- Nov 2023Seed$3M
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 25 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Provider of a VR training platform for golf players. It provides users with an app-based virtual training platform for golf. It also provides real-world golf courses and multiplayer facilities. It also provides golf community and personal training faculty services.
- Oct 2022Seed$6M
- Aug 2019Seed$200K
#10
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 50 employees$5Mraised▾
XR studio crafting playful VR games and experiences with spatial interactions. We are dedicated to creating polished and engaging virtual reality experiences. We focus on natural, spatial interactions to unlock new forms of gameplay and immersion. We build experiences that are stylish, funny, and accessible, bringing joy to a wide audience. We pioneer experiments and share VR best practices to improve VR for everyone. Our creations include ground-breaking VR titles, experimental features, and accessibility updates. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of virtual reality through innovative game design and technology.
- Aug 2016Series A$5M
#11
Acqui-Hired · Austin, Texas · founded 2009 · 51 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Nitero is a Austin USA based fabless semiconductor company designing an ultra low power 60 GHz 802.11ad high speed wifi solution. Nitero's solution will find application in 4K wireless displays, mobile applications etc.
- Jul 2012Seed$1.5M
- Jan 2012Seed—
- Jun 2011Seed$1.6M
#12
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2015 · 12 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Data, fka DatavizVR, is a web based immersive data visualization tool. It allows users to plot data points in a three dimensional environment thereby discovering hidden insights from their data. The platform also allows users to collaborate in virtual space for co creating data visualizations, discussing insights, and building data presentations. Is based on AR and VR and uses AI in helping enterprises to increase productivity and collaboration. It allows the users to leverage webVR thereby eliminating the need for external hardware. The tool has use cases in technology, science, engineering, and finance. The company, in February 2018, was accepted to the BoostVC accelerator program, Tribe 11.
- Aug 2020Seed$1.3M
- Apr 2018Seed—
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