Emergency communication and mass notification platform. Austin TX. Edison Partners + General Atlantic. Acquired by EverCommerce 2023.

Streaming TV for businesses — bar, gym, restaurant ambient content. Austin TX. Mark Cuban + Valor Equity. $1B+ valuation 2022. 55,000+ venues.

De-extinction and genomics company. $10.2B valuation Feb 2026. Co-founders: Ben Lamm and George Church. Successfully de-extincted the dire wolf Apr 2025. Backed by a16z. One of Austin's highest-profile unicorns.

Cash offer homebuying platform. Austin TX. Norwest Venture Partners. Raised $371M 2021.

Intellectible is an Austin-based AI software startup that provides specialized AI tools for enterprise service providers, including scoped projects, visual workflows, document libraries, and AI-assisted proposal writing. The company raised a $3 million seed round in June 2026.

Physical security intelligence platform for enterprise. McLean VA. JMI Equity Series C $230M Aug 2025. Consolidates physical threat data — converged security intelligence.

Austin TX. Autonomous surface vessel (ASV) company for US Navy and maritime defense. Builds unmanned surface vessels for fleet operations, ISR, logistics. Early investor: Point72 Ventures. Raised $55M Series A 2024. Naval Base San Diego adjacency for testing. Relevant to NavalX maritime ecosystem and USCGA autonomous vessel angle.

Cybersecurity — exposed credential monitoring and identity threat protection. Austin TX. Scout Ventures + M12. $100M ARR.

Austin TX (HQ moved from Palo Alto). Electric vehicles and energy. Founded 2003 by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning. Elon Musk joined Series A 2004 as chairman, later CEO. NASDAQ: TSLA. $97B revenue 2023. Musk used PayPal proceeds to fund early investment.

Bastrop TX. Tunnel infrastructure company. Founded by Elon Musk 2016. Las Vegas Convention Center Loop operational. Hawthorne CA to Las Vegas tunnels. Hyperloop concept precursor.

Austin TX. $42B endowment (UT System via UTIMCO — largest public university system endowment). Cockrell School of Engineering. McCombs School of Business. LBJ School of Public Affairs. IC² Institute — tech commercialization and entrepreneurship. Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Core campus for Austin tech ecosystem — Dell Medical, Apple, Tesla, Google all nearby. Applied

Austin TX. University of Texas Applied Research Laboratories. Underwater acoustics and sonar for Navy. Defense research since WWII. One of largest university-affiliated defense research programs in US. Classified and unclassified research. DOD primary funder.

Austin TX. Top-10 business school. Energy finance leadership — Texas oil/gas/cleantech business education. Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship. Texas Venture Labs accelerator. Strong ties to Austin startup ecosystem (Dell, Apple, Tesla connections).

Austin TX. Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Interdisciplinary computational research. Strong ties to national labs (Sandia, LANL, LLNL). DOE partnerships. Feeds Austin deep tech ecosystem.

Managed WordPress hosting platform. Austin TX. Silver Lake Partners. $290M+ revenue. 200,000+ customers. Notable 2024: public legal battle with Automattic/Matt Mullenweg over WordPress trademark.