Directory
Who’s building here
Austin-born companies and the campuses that moved in. Humanoids, chips, identity, agents, and the factories that make the rest possible.
20 companies
Apptronik
Humanoids · Austin
Maker of Apollo, the general-purpose humanoid robot. Spun out of UT Austin’s Human Centered Robotics Lab and now among the most funded embodied-AI companies in the world.
Series A · ~$1B raised
HiddenLayer
Security · Downtown · Capital Factory
AI security platform that monitors model inputs and outputs so enterprises can ship agents without handing the keys to an attacker. Based out of Capital Factory.
Series B · $156M+
Mythic
Chips · Austin
Analog compute-in-memory chips built to run AI inference at the edge without the power bill of a GPU rack. Physics first, software second.
Late-stage · $160M+
Jasper
Content · Austin
One of the first generative-AI companies to find product-market fit with marketers. Austin-born, still a flagship of the local gen-AI stack.
Unicorn · private
SailPoint
Identity · Northwest Austin
Austin’s public identity-security company. AI now sits on top of a two-decade identity graph — who should have access, and who just got it.
Public · Nasdaq: SAIL
Coder
Devtools · Austin
Cloud development environments for teams that want agents and humans sharing the same workspace. Austin HQ, enterprise customers, fresh Series C.
Series C
CS Disco
Legal · Austin
Legal AI and e-discovery from Austin. Disco is the rare public legal-tech company that actually ships models lawyers will use.
Public · NYSE: LAW
Avathon
Industrial · Austin engineering
Formerly SparkCognition. Founded in Austin by Amir Husain (UT CS). Industrial AI for energy, aerospace, and defense — Austin engineering still growing even after the HQ move.
Private · $270M+
Neurophos
Chips · Austin
Optical processing units that compute with light instead of electrons. Austin metamaterials and silicon photonics aimed at cheaper, cooler inference.
Venture
Iodine Software
Health · Austin
Clinical AI that reads the chart the way a CDIO wishes a resident would. Now part of Waystar, still an Austin healthcare-AI landmark.
Acquired · Waystar
Tesla
Automotive · Southeast · Giga Texas
Giga Texas is not a satellite office. It is the volume factory for Cybertruck, a training ground for Optimus, and one of the densest concentrations of robotics and autonomy talent in the country.
Public · Nasdaq: TSLA
Apple
On-device · North Austin
Apple’s second-largest campus sits in North Austin. Machine learning, Siri, and Apple Intelligence work happens here — quiet, well-paid, and hard to see from the highway.
Public · Nasdaq: AAPL
Cloud · The Domain / downtown
Google Cloud and Gemini engineering in Austin. The office is a pipeline into GCP, applied AI, and the unglamorous work of making models useful for companies that still run on SQL.
Public · Nasdaq: GOOGL
Oracle
Cloud · Austin HQ
Oracle’s headquarters is in Austin. OCI’s AI stack — from GPU clusters to database-native models — is a bigger local employer than most ‘AI startups’ combined.
Public · NYSE: ORCL
Dell Technologies
Infrastructure · Round Rock
Round Rock’s original PC giant now sells AI factories: workstations, servers, and on-prem stacks for companies that will not send their data to someone else’s GPU.
Public · NYSE: DELL
AMD
Chips · Austin
Austin is one of AMD’s primary architecture homes. The people who design the CPUs and GPUs that train everyone else’s models sit in Silicon Hills.
Public · Nasdaq: AMD
NXP Semiconductors
Chips · Austin
Edge AI for cars and factories. NXP’s Austin operations sit at the intersection of automotive ADAS and industrial IoT — the chips that have to work at 125°C.
Public · Nasdaq: NXPI
NVIDIA
Chips · Austin
Austin is part of NVIDIA’s expanding engineering map — CUDA, automotive, and the unglamorous work of keeping the AI supply chain from melting.
Public · Nasdaq: NVDA
Indeed
Labor · Downtown / Domain
The world’s job site is an Austin company. Matching people to work is an AI problem at a scale most labs never see — search, ranking, fraud, and resume understanding.
Recruit Holdings
Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Chips · Northeast Austin
One of the largest semiconductor fabs in the United States. Not an ‘AI company’ on a pitch deck — the physical layer everything else stands on.
Samsung Electronics