This is a list of notable companies based in the Austin metropolitan area.

Fortune 500

(rankings as of 2021) * Dell Technologies (28) *

Oracle An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The word ...

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Tesla Inc. Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles (electric cars and trucks), battery energy storage from home to grid- ...

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Advertising

* Door Number 3 * GSD&M * LatinWorks *

LIN Media LIN Media was an American holding company founded in 1994 that operated 43 television stations. All except one were affiliates of the six major U.S. television networks. One of the remaining stations was a low powered weather station in In ...

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Media General Media General was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired ''The Richmond Daily Times'', which later became ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch ...

)-Shutdown * McGarrah Jessee * R/GA * RetailMeNot * Rock Candy Media * T3 (The Think Tank)

Aerospace and air travel

Astrotech Corporation Astrotech Corporation, formerly Spacehab Inc., is a technology incubator headquartered in Austin, Texas. Astrotech uses technology sourced internally and from research institutions, government laboratories, and universities to fund, manage and s ...

Austin Express Austin Express Inc. was a commuter airline headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States."World Airline Directory." ''Flight International''. March 18-12 200281 The airline incorporated on August 13, 1997. It was originally managed by ten former C ...

- Shutdown * Emerald Air-Closed

Architecture

* Dick Clark Architecture * Lundgren and Maurer-Closed in the 80s no successor

Automotive

* Tesla

Beauty

* Beardbrand *

Birds Barbershop Birds Barbershop is an independently owned brand of barbershops founded in Austin, Texas, USA. The first shop was opened in 2006 by Jayson Rapaport and Michael Portman with the goal to provide low cost salon services for both men and women in a ...

Biotechnology

Asuragen Bio-Techne Corporation develops, manufactures and sells life science reagents, instruments and services for the research, diagnostic, and bioprocessing markets. The company's brands include R&D Systems, ProteinSimple, and Novus Biologicals. Hi ...

-Relocation to

Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origi ...

* Luminex Corporation * Sonic Healthcare- Bought and moved to

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

Booksellers and publishing

BookPeople BookPeople is an independent bookstore in Austin, Texas, and the largest bookstore in the state of Texas. It was founded in 1970 and has been voted the best bookstore by the Austin Chronicle every year since 1995 . BookPeople was voted ''Publi ...

Clockwork Storybook Clockwork Storybook (CWSB) was a writer's collective and independent book publisher based in Austin, Texas. It specialized in the fantasy, horror and adventure genres. History Clockwork Storybook was formed in the late 1990s by fellow Austin- ...

-Shutdown *

Greenleaf Book Group Greenleaf Book Group is an independent book publisher and distributor, which was established by Clint Greenleaf in 1997. Greenleaf was a CPA and accountant at Deloitte & Touche before writing his first book, ''Attention to Detail'', in 1997 and ...

Holt McDougal Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools. The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the e ...

* Landes Bioscience *

Monofonus Press Monofonus Press is a multi-media organization that was founded in 2007 by Meef Bestest Frenz in Austin, Texas. The initial mission of the company was to combine the artistic expressions of multiple artists into a cohesive package that recognized ...

Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the c ...

Construction

Data

* Forcepoint *

Global Language Monitor The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is a company based in Austin, Texas that collectively documents, analyzes, and tracks trends in language usage worldwide, with a particular emphasis upon the English language. It is particularly known for it ...

Hoover's D&B Hoovers was founded by Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain in 1990Solomon, Steve.The Dynamic Duo" '' Inc.''. October 15, 1997. Retrieved on April 7, 2014. as an American business research company that provided information on companies and indu ...

MyEdu Myedu ( my, မြေဒူးမြို့ ) is a small town located in Kanbalu Township, Sagaing Region, Myanmar (Burma). The town was the fief of King Hsinbyushin (r. 1763–1776) of Konbaung Dynasty The Konbaung dynasty ( my, က� ...

* NetSolve (

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

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Vignette Corporation Vignette Corporation was a company that offered a suite of content management, web portal, collaboration, document management, and records management software. Targeted at the enterprise market, Vignette offered products under the name StoryServ ...

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Open Text Corporation OpenText Corporation (also written ''opentext'') is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software. OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company ...

)- Headquartered in Canada

Direct marketing

* QuantumDigital

Education

* MakerSquare *

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

Energy

* Crystatech *

Green Mountain Energy Green Mountain Energy Company is a United States company that sells electricity products, carbon offsets, and sustainable energy. History In August 1997, Green Mountain Energy was founded in Vermont as an offshoot of Green Mountain Power to tak ...

* HelioVolt-Suspended operations in 2015 * Illumitex

Environmental monitoring

* VI Technology-Acquired by

Aeroflex Aeroflex Inc. was an American company which produced test equipment, RF and microwave integrated circuits, components and systems used for wireless communications. Its headquarters were located in Plainview, New York. In May 2014, Aeroflex was ...

Esports

* Tribe Gaming

Film and television

* Alamo Drafthouse Cinema *

Bright Shining City Productions Bright Shining City Productions is an independent film and media production company established in Austin, Texas by Polish-American film director and producer Mariusz Kotowski in 2005. The company's initial film project was the full-length docu ...

FloSports FloSports is an over-the-top subscription sports broadcaster and streaming service. The company is based in Austin, Texas, United States, and was founded in 2006. FloSports streams live sporting events to audiences around the world. History ...

Rooster Teeth Productions Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Warne ...

Troublemaker Studios Troublemaker Studios is a film production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. The company is based in Austin, Texas and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. It shares ...

* Uptown Studios Austin

Finance and banking

* Kasasa *

Dimensional Fund Advisors Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P. (branded Dimensional abbreviated DFA) is a private investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dimensional was founded in Chicago in 1981 by David Booth, Rex Sinquefield and Larry Klotz. The company has affili ...

* Farm Credit Bank of Texas

Food and drink

Amy's Ice Creams Amy's Ice Creams is a privately owned chain of ice cream shops in Texas with headquarters in Austin. The ''Austin Chronicle'' described Amy's as a "quintessentially Austin institution" which "dominates the local ice cream scene." Amy's ice cream ...

Bush's Chicken Bush's Chicken (stylized as Bush's Chicken!) is a fast food restaurant serving fried chicken. The company is headquartered in Waco, Texas and has over 75 franchise locations in Central, North, South, and West Texas. The chain serves fried chick ...

-Relocation to

Waco, Texas Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the s ...

* Carino's Italian * Chameleon Cold-Brew *

Chuy's Chuy's is a Tex-Mex restaurant chain established in 1982 in Austin, Texas, by Mike Young and John Zapp. As of February 2022, Chuy's had close to 100 restaurants in 17 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ke ...

* DoubleDave's Pizzaworks *

Gatti's Pizza Mr Gatti's Pizza is a Southern and Southeastern United States pizza-buffet chain. The corporate offices are in Fort Worth, Texas. History In 1964, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James R. Eure opened a pizza and hamburger restaurant in his ...

- Relocation to

Fort Worth Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. Accord ...

before shutdown * KaleidoScoops *

Live Oak Brewing Company Live Oak Brewing Company located in Austin, Texas, is a locally owned and operated brewery. The brewery producefour year-round beersas well as nearly 20 morseasonal (or limited release) beers Live Oak beers are available on draft across Texas a ...

Oasis Restaurant The Oasis on Lake Travis is a restaurant on the western edge of Austin, Texas. The restaurant promotes itself as the "Sunset Capital of Texas" with its terraced views looking West over Lake Travis. The thirty thousand square foot restaurant sits ...

* Sweet Leaf Tea Company * Texadelphia-Relocation to

Dallas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...

Tiff's Treats Tiff’s Treats is a privately held cookie manufacturing and delivery company. Founded in Austin, Texas by two University of Texas graduates. The company operates 70 locations in five states. History Founders Tiffany Taylor and Leon Chen met ...

* Tito's Vodka *

Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an upscale American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives. A ...

* YETI Coolers

Gaming development, distribution and production

* Arkane Studios *

Aspyr Aspyr Media, Inc. (pronounced " aspire") is an American video game developer and publisher founded by Michael Rogers and Ted Staloch in Austin, Texas. Originally founded to bring top gaming titles to macOS, the company, since 2005, has become ...

Battlecry Studios Bethesda Game Studios Austin LLC (formerly BattleCry Studios LLC) is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. History BattleCry Studios was founded on October 3, 2012, as subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, headed by Rich Vogel ...

* Bluepoint Games * Certain Affinity *

Crytek USA Crytek USA Corp. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, and a subsidiary of Crytek. The studio was led by David Adams, who was formerly the CEO of Vigil Games; a studio that had been acquired by THQ, but was shut down as ...

- Shutdown in 2013 * Devolver Digital *

Edge of Reality Edge of Reality, Ltd. was an American video game developer founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas that developed video games for the Nintendo 64, GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox game consoles. It also had games in development for PlaySt ...

- Dissolved 2018 *

Gamecock Media Group Gamecock Media Group was an American video game publisher based in Austin, Texas, founded in February 2007 by Mike Wilson, Harry Miller and Rick Stults, formerly founders and executives of Gathering of Developers. The company was acquired by ...

- Shutdown in 2008 * GameSalad * Ghostfire Games- Closed in 2019 * Heatwave Interactive * KingsIsle Entertainment * Portalarium- Closed 2019 * Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. * Renegade Kid- Dissolved 2016 *

Retro Studios Retro Studios, Inc. is an American video game developer and subsidiary of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas. The studio is best known for its work on the '' Metroid Prime'' and '' Donkey Kong Country'' series, and has contributed to several o ...

Rooster Teeth Games Rooster Teeth Games is an American video game developer, publisher and distributor based in Austin, Texas, serving as Rooster Teeth's video game division. It is focused on "bridging the gap between independent game developers and the worldwide c ...

Roxor Games Roxor Games, Inc. is a 25-person company based in Austin, Texas that develops video game software for the arcade and home markets. Founded in 2002, Roxor works with developers of open source software to deploy games on a Linux-based hardware platfor ...

* Spacetime Studios *

Twisted Pixel Games Twisted Pixel Games, LLC is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. Originally a contractor, Twisted Pixel releases games based on its own intellectual properties such as '' The Maw'' and Splosion Man''. The company uses its ...

Wolfpack Studios Ubisoft is a French video game publisher headquartered in Montreuil, founded in March 1986 by the Guillemot brothers. Since its establishment, Ubisoft has become one of the largest video game publishers, and it has the largest in-house develop ...

- Shutdown in 2006

Insurance

* National Western Life

Intelligence

Stratfor Strategic Forecasting Inc., commonly known as Stratfor, is an American geopolitics publisher and consultancy founded in 1996. Stratfor's business model is to provide individual and enterprise subscriptions to Stratfor Worldview, its online public ...

Internet service providers

* Wayport, Inc., acquired by AT&T in 2008

Loans

* EZCorp

Manufacturing

* Cerilliant Corporation * CompuAdd- Closed in the 90s *

Elgin-Butler Brick Company The Elgin-Butler Brick Company manufactures structural ceramic glazed masonry products at a plant northeast of Austin, Texas, United States. The company has regional market dominance in structural brick and other ceramic products. History Orig ...

* IKey *

Motion Computing Motion Computing, Inc., was a developer of slate Tablet PC computers located in Austin, Texas. Motion Computing focused on vertical markets such as healthcare government, public safety, and construction. It was the first company to introduce Go ...

National Instruments National Instruments Corporation, doing business as NI, is an American multinational company with international operation. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. C ...

* Ronco-Fully dissolved in bankruptcy 2018 * SuperCircuits * Tesla *

Valence Technology Valence Technology, Inc. was a company that developed and manufactured lithium iron phosphate cathode material as well as lithium ion battery modules and packs. The modules come in 12 V, 18 V, 24 V, and 36 V configurations. ...

Music

* Blastro * Blastro Networks *

Collings Guitars Collings Guitars is an Austin, Texas based stringed instrument manufacturer. The company was founded in 1973 by ''Bill'' ''Collings'' (August 9, 1948 – July 14, 2017). In addition to acoustic guitars they also make electric guitars, archtop g ...

* Emperor Jones *

Waterloo Records Waterloo Records is an independent record shop, music and video retailer in Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas, which has been an integral part of Austin's music scene since 1982. The store provides a large selection of new and used Compact Disc, CDs, ...

Western Vinyl Western Vinyl is an independent record label founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas. The imprint was formed by Brian Sampson and Ryan Murphy originally to release their lo-fi indie rock projects as Win Foster and Havergal. Artists *Abram Sh ...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Bat Conservation International Bat Conservation International (BCI) is an international nongovernmental organization working to conserve bats and their habitats through conservation, education, and research efforts. BCI was founded in 1982 by bat biologist Merlin Tuttle, who ...

* Knowbility

Real estate

American Campus Communities American Campus Communities, Inc. (ACC) is the largest developer, owner and manager of student housing communities in the United States. It is headquartered in Bee Cave, Texas, with an Austin postal address. - Compare with thcity limits map of ...

* Econohomes *

Forestar Group Forestar Group Inc. is a residential lot development company based in Arlington, Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. ...

-No longer located in Austin, headquartered in

Arlington, Texas Arlington is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Tarrant County. It forms part of the Mid-Cities region of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and is a principal city of the metropolis and region ...

HomeAway HomeAway was a vacation rental marketplace. It operated through 50 websites in 23 languages through which it offered rentals of cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, and farmhouses. Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas ...

- Acquired and relocated in 2015 by

Expedia Expedia Inc. is an online travel agency owned by Expedia Group, an American online travel shopping company based in Seattle. The website and mobile app can be used to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruise ships, a ...

* Keller Williams Realty * Opcity-Shutdown by Move, Inc.

Retail

Allens Boots Allens Boots is a retail store in Austin, Texas, that specializes in western wear. The store offers items such as cowboy boots, hats, jeans, and shirts. History Allens Boots opened its doors in 1977; the big, red boot above the entrance has sinc ...

* Bravelets * Despair, Inc. * Eyebuydirect *

Kendra Scott Kendra Scott (born March 27, 1974) is an American fashion designer. She is the executive chairwoman, designer, and former chief executive officer of Kendra Scott, LLC. In 2017, she was named Ernst & Young's National Entrepreneur of the Year. Ea ...

* L.G. Balfour Company * Living Direct * Outdoor Voices *

, a division of

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...

Security

* Knight security systems

Semiconductors

* Advanced Technology Development Facility *

Cirrus Logic Cirrus Logic Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor supplier that specializes in analog, mixed-signal, and audio DSP integrated circuits (ICs). Since 1998, the company's headquarters have been in Austin, Texas. The company's audio proces ...

NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2 ...

* Silicon Laboratories

Shipping

uShip uShip, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based Internet company that operates uShip.com, an online marketplace for shipping services. Individuals and businesses post items they need shipped in a variety of categories, including auto transport, boat ship ...

Software

* Academic Superstore * Asure Software * Bazaarvoice * BigCommerce *

Borland Borland Software Corporation was a computer technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was the development and sale of software development and software deployment product ...

-Full acquisition by Micro Focus International * Convio * Enthought * Evolutionary Technologies International- Bought out by Inspire * Honestech *

Indeed.com Indeed is an American worldwide employment website for job listings launched in November 2004. It is an independent subsidiary of multinational holding Recruit Co. Ltd. It is co-headquartered in Austin, Texas, and Stamford, Connecticut, with a ...

* InduSoft-Merged with

Schneider Electric Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational company that specializes in digital automation and energy management. It addresses homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automatio ...

* Meta SaaS *

Metreos Metreos was a software company that created and sold development and runtime tools for creating voice over Internet Protocol software applications. The company was founded by Louis Marascio and Mark Richards and was based in Austin, Texas, United ...

-Acquired by

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...

* Pervasive Software-Acquired by Actian *

Photodex Photodex was a software company specializing in the digital imaging market. They are primarily known for the ProShow product line, which is photo slideshow software. Photodex released one of the first consumer level slideshow programs in 1991 wi ...

-Permanently shut down * Planview * Pristine *

SolarWinds SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offi ...

* Spiceworks * Spredfast *

Third Wire Third Wire Productions Inc. is a C corporation based in Austin, Texas, United States; it is an independent software development company founded in 1999 to create multimedia entertainment, such as Amateur flight simulation, amateur flight simulat ...

* Ticketbud *

Trilogy A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, and video games, and are less common in other art forms. Three-part wor ...

Vrbo Vrbo ( ) operates an online marketplace for vacation rentals. It was originally known as Vacation Rentals by Owner or VRBO. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and is owned by Expedia Group. History The VRBO website was created by David Cl ...

* Winternals * Xojo *

Zello Zello is a tech software company in Austin, Texas, U.S., known for the Zello app, which emulates push-to-talk (PTT) walkie-talkies over cell phone networks. History Alexey Gavrilov developed the product originally called Loudtalks which was ann ...

Telecommunications

LifeSize Lifesize is a video and audio telecommunications company in the United States which provides high definition videoconferencing endpoints and accessories, touchscreen conference room phones and a cloud-based video collaboration platform. Lifesiz ...

Protect America Protect America was a home security company based in Austin, Texas. Company history The company was founded in 1992 by Thad Paschall in Austin, Texas—where it was headquartered. By 2001, the company had installed about 200,000 security syste ...

-Assets sold to Brinks * TippingPoint-Acquired and relocated by

Trend Micro is an American-Japanese multinational cyber security software company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and Irving, Texas, United State.Other regional headquarters and R&D centers are located around East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and ...

Utilities

* Lower Colorado River Authority

References

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