AI Landscape of Austin
250 AI companies in Austin, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
Who leads AI in Austin
Shows the top AI firms in Austin by hiring activity, funding, and media coverage; 250 companies are tracked, with 20 currently hiring and 65 having disclosed a funding round.
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Saronic11last posted Jun 2026
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Senseye5last posted Jan 2026
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Jasper AI5last posted Jun 2026
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Conversenow Ai3last posted Jun 2026
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Flomad3last posted Jul 2026
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Neuralogic2last posted Jan 2026
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Pensa Systems2last posted Apr 2026
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HiddenLayer2last posted Sep 2025
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Mythic$269.5MSeries D · Dec 2025
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Anaconda$226.1MSeries C · Jul 2025
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Neurophos$120MSeries A · Nov 2025
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Tethr$91.4MSeries B · Dec 2021
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One Model$83.8MSeries A · Oct 2023
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Brightpick72tracked employees
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AI Clearing60tracked employees
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Athena Security51tracked employees
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RapidCanvas19.2%30 tracked events
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Inspire Semiconductor11.5%18 tracked events
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Yonder8.3%13 tracked events
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DryRun Security7.1%11 tracked events
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Monogram5.8%9 tracked events
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Contoro Robotics7articles in the window
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Numbers Station7articles in the window
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Striveworks5articles in the window
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Cognitive Scale5articles in the window
See all 250 AI companies in Austin
Filter by funding, headcount, hiring and location, and export the list.
How the AI ecosystem in Austin grew, 2016–2025
Displays the number of AI startups founded each year, highlighting a peak of 36 companies in 2023 and 28 in 2025.
The AI market map of Austin: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the product categories these AI firms target and their revenue models, noting enterprise tech (188 firms) and subscription pricing (217 firms) as the most common.
- Enterprise Tech188 companies · $4.3B raised · 17 hiring
- Enterprise Software143 companies · $1B raised · 11 hiring
- SaaS129 companies · $3.3B raised · 6 hiring
- Deep Tech109 companies · $1.3B raised · 9 hiring
- Consumer Digital35 companies · $320.1M raised · 1 hiring
- Native AI in Software Development23 companies · $255.2M raised · 3 hiring
- Fintech14 companies · $102.8M raised · 1 hiring
- Native AI in Cybersecurity14 companies · $181.2M raised · 2 hiring
- Native AI in Marketing14 companies · $274.3M raised · 1 hiring
- Native AI in Financial Services12 companies · $91.5M raised · 1 hiring
- Healthtech12 companies · $84.5M raised · 1 hiring
- AI-Native Computer Vision11 companies · $50.5M raised · 1 hiring
Monetization
How AI companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving AI in Austin
Lists 81 corporate events over the past two years, including 32 funding rounds, 13 key‑person announcements, and 5 mergers and acquisitions.
- M&AAnaconda has acquired workflow development software vendor Outerbounds to enhance its enterprise AI platform capabilities.2026-05-01
- FundingThe investment is helping Contoro reach international customers, starting in Asia.2026-04-14
- FundingSaronic has now raised a total of $2.6B in total equity funding and is backed by 8VC, Advent International, Andreessen Horowitz, BAM Elevate, and Bessemer Venture Partners.2026-04-06
- FundingNeurophos, an Austin-based AI startup spun out of Duke University, is developing tiny optical processors for AI inference.2026-01-23
- FundingMythic , which raised a $125M Series D to develop analog processing units it claims deliver up to a 100x energy advantage over GPUs2026-01-20
- FundingPolygraf has now raised a total of $11.9M in total equity funding and is backed by Allegis Capital, Alumni Ventures, DataPower Ventures, and DOMiNO Ventures.2025-11-02
- FundingCommand Zero, an Austin, Texas-based company that provides an autonomous and AI-assisted cyber investigation platform, has secured a $10 million strategic investment.2025-08-04
- FundingInspire Semiconductor Holdings Inc. (“InspireSemi” or the “Company”), a chip design company that provides revolutionary high-performance, energy-efficient accelerated computing solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC), AI, graph analytics, and other compute-intensive workloads, announces that on June 2, 2025 it closed a non‑brokered private placement comprised of proportionate voting share units (“PV Units”) for total proceeds of US$3,000,005 as was announced in its press release dated April 21, 2025.2025-06-09
- M&AAlation on Tuesday reached an agreement to acquire Numbers Station in a move aimed at adding new agentic AI development capabilities.2025-05-20
- M&AIn December 2024, Zebra Technologies announced plans to acquire Photoneo Brightpick Group’s vision unit.2025-01-27
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a AI company in Austin was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-05-01 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-06-02 | ||
| $5M | Completed | 2025-04-15 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-01-02 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2025-01-01 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2024-06-19 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on specific corporate events such as leadership changes, IPO filings, product launches, and contract wins.
Who is building AI in Austin
Ex-Co-Founder Proof, Market Results, Pinpoint PT. Oklahoma State University BS 2009
Ex-Metacept, Kymeta. ETH Zurich MS 2013, Duke University Phd 2017
One Model, ex-Successfactors, ex-Infohrm, CQUniversity, 2005
Ex-Qualys, Agari, BlackBerry, Cylance, Batteries Plus Bulbs. Texas State University BS 2016
Strategic Advisor-Inflection Ventures · George Washington University Master of Science in Engineering Management…
Sayari Labs, ex-Army Science Board, ex-Virtu Financial, Northwestern University, 2009
Ex-PayPal, Google, GE Energy. Clemson University MS 2000, University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business MBA 2007
Ex- uShip. Texas A&M University BA 1993, Harvard Business School MBA 1999
Duke University AB 1991, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine MD 1998, Rush University 2004…
- women16
- men143
Look up the people behind AI companies in Austin
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Who funds AI in Austin
Identifies the investors behind Austin AI companies, with 155 funding rounds since 2016 from 273 investors and an average round size of $5.5 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| DCVC | 6 | 3 | Dec 2025 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 2 | Mar 2026 |
| Lux Capital | 5 | 3 | Mar 2023 |
| ATX Venture Partners | 4 | 3 | Jun 2021 |
| Techstars | 4 | 3 | Jan 2024 |
| M12 | 4 | 3 | Nov 2025 |
| MetaVC Partners | 4 | 1 | Nov 2025 |
| 8VC | 4 | — | Mar 2026 |
| Moneta Ventures | 3 | 2 | Oct 2022 |
| Insight Partners | 3 | 2 | Jul 2025 |
The typical round is $5.5M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest AI funding rounds in Austin
Highlights the largest disclosed funding deals, including Saronic’s $1.8 billion Series D round, and lists ten recent large rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series Dmega-round | $1.8B | Mar 2026 | Kleiner Perkins, Advent International, Bessemer Venture Partners +7 more | |
| Series Cmega-round | $600M | Feb 2025 | Elad Gil, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz +2 more | |
| Series B | $175.5M | Jun 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Caffeinated Capital +2 more | |
| Series C | $150M | Jul 2025 | Insight Partners, Mubadala | |
| Series A | $140.6M | May 2022 | Insight Partners, IVP, Bessemer Venture Partners +5 more | |
| Series D | $125M | Dec 2025 | DCVC, New Enterprise Associates, Future Ventures +9 more | |
| Series A | $110M | Nov 2025 | Gates Frontier, M12, Carbon Direct Capital +10 more | |
| Series C | $70M | May 2021 | BlackRock, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, Alumni Ventures +1 more | |
| Series A | $55M | Oct 2023 | Caffeinated Capital, 8VC, Andreessen Horowitz +7 more | |
| Series A | $50M | Sep 2023 | M12, Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Hamilton +3 more |
46 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Seed$7.5MMay 2026
Series A$11MApr 2026
Angel$30MFeb 2026
Series A$12.1MFeb 2026
Seed$4MFeb 2026
Seed$2.9MFeb 2026
What the news says about AI in Austin
Counts 11,102 news articles published in the last year about Austin AI firms, covering topics like product launches, strategic partnerships, and regulatory issues.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate AI news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Cryptocurrency impact on forex markets54,305▲+87%
- New product launches and innovations45,975▲+33%
- Technology adoption and digital transformation41,410▲+28%
- Strategic partnerships and collaborations37,461▲+45%
- College athletics news33,026▼-59%
- Artificial intelligence advancements32,181▲+40%
- Executive leadership changes and appointments27,800▲+36%
- Sports history and legacy stories24,526▲+1065%
- International political relations22,380▲+53%
- Security and defense policies21,442▲+44%
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17 AI companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch AI coverage in United States as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Momentum
The words getting louder — and quieter
Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.
The pressures the press keeps returning to
Three recurring angles in United States AI coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
AI jobs in Austin: who is hiring and what they ask for
Summarizes 476 job postings from 20 AI employers in the past year, emphasizing sought‑after skills such as Excel, AI, and performance optimization.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What AI employers in Austin put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- excel9▲
- inventory management4▲
- ai4▲
- performance optimization3▲
- crm3▲
- campaign production3▼
- platform3▲
- brand strategy3▲
- erp2▲
- ai platforms2▲
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36 AI-relevant internships in India were advertised over the same 12 months.
What the research says
The AI research read is national: 5,214 United States-affiliated papers, clustered into themes such as Cognition / Generative Grammar, Cloud Computing / Scalability, Pattern Recognition / Benchmark, Cloud Computing / Operating System. It is measured at country level, so it is the same signal for every city in United States — the full read, with the theme clusters, growth and blind spots, lives on the national page.
Who files AI patents in Austin
Records 37 patent filings between 2018 and 2025, with Ojo Labs identified as the leading filer.
- Ojo Labs38
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Research themes, patent activity and the companies commercialising them, in one place.
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