Top Tech Companies In Texas You Should Know
Texas — it’s huge and home to hundreds of thousands of businesses. Within these Texas businesses are innovative and downright cool startups and tech companies. To get a look at the entire tech landscape in Texas, we’re exploring tech companies and startups throughout Austin, San Antonio, Houston and the Dallas- Fort Worth area. While this is by no means a comprehensive list for any of these cities, consider it an introduction to the many, many tech companies in Texas, and why the Lone Star state might just be the place where you find your next dream job.
Notable Tech Companies in Texas
- Cision
- Optimizely
- RetailMeNot
- WellAware
- FlightAware
- Snapstream
- 5miles Door Inc.
Austin
Austin is currently the hotbed in Texas tech, with over two thousand tech companies and startups, the city is the beating heart of the state's tech scene. The following companies are constantly growing and innovating their fields, and represent just a small fraction of what the Austin scene has to offer.
Location: Downtown Austin
Industry: Edtech
What they do: Aceable is a mobile education platform for training and certification courses like drivers ed, real estate education and defensive driving. With over 400,000 graduates to date, the self-paced, state-accredited courses are more flexible and affordable than traditional courses.
Location: Austin
Industry: Information Technology, Security
What they do: Cloudflare protects existing online applications without altering their structure or adding any hardware. The company routes traffic through its global network, becoming increasingly smarter with each site added.
Location: Austin
Industry: Cloud + Security
What they do: SailPoint is an identity governance solution provider for enterprise companies.
Location: Northwest Austin
Industry: Healthtech
What they do: Iodine Software helps hospitals improve clinical documentation. The company’s machine learning technology evaluates and discovers records that need improvement. The company's software helps hospitals prioritize records that need the most revision and enhances the accuracy and overall completeness of hospital documents.
Location: Northwest Austin
Industry: IoT and Software
What they do: CCC provides a range of cloud and mobile solutions for the automotive and insurance industries. The company’s platform connects a giant network of insurance companies, parts suppliers, repair facilities and third-party providers. CCC’s solutions help people get back on the road quickly after accidents, while also improving communication and collaboration between players in the automotive and insurance field.
Location: Oak Hill
Industry: Adtech
What they do: AdAction Interactive provides custom advertising solutions for mobile marketers. AdAction’s platform helps companies identify new audiences to target and provides dashboards for understanding campaign spending and performance. The company works with many well know brands and tech leaders like Apple, Twitter, Poshmark and FourSquare.
Location: Downtown
Industry: Cloud and Healthtech
What they do: ClearDATA provides cloud data and security solutions exclusively to the healthcare industry, ensuring organizations stick to compliance standards, privacy and security. The company offers services to multiple players in the healthcare industry including healthcare technology, providers, payers and life sciences organizations.
Location: Downtown
Industry: Software
What they do: Through its experimentation platform, Optimizely gives companies the ability to test different digital experiences in order to determine which approach leads to the most customer engagement. The company launched in 2009 from San Francisco.
Location: Downtown
Industry: Adtech
What they do: Outbound Engine makes marketing software that provides services like email marketing, professional websites, social posts and referral campaigns. The team at Outbound crafts custom and engaging content catered for each brand and creates automatic campaigns so companies can worry less about scheduling and follow up.
Location: Downtown
Industry: E-commerce
What they do: RetailMeNot helps brands drive growth by influencing purchases and engaging their large shopping audience. The savings destination provides mobile coupons, discounted gift cards and cash back offers, reaching a wider number of consumers, retaining more customers and enhancing brand awareness.
Location: Downtown
Industry: Big Data
What they do: TrendKite provides a digital public relations platform to major brands and media companies like Google, Patagonia and Marriott. The company offers solutions like influencer marketing and management, PR strategy and analytical insights.
Location: The Domain
Industry: E-commerce
What they do: Expedia Group is a vacation rental platform providing access to hotels, houses, cabins and more across 190 countries. Expedia Group's platform works on either side of the booking process, with both vacationers and those listing their homes. The platform helps renters find great places to stay and listers manage their prices, dates and rules.
San Antonio
San Antonio may not be as bustling a tech hub as Austin, but the Alamo City is definitely growing. With popular coworking spaces like Geekdom, startups are finding space to both grow and collaborate. In addition to companies like Geekdom, we've rounded up a few more startups to give you a better idea of how San Antonio is establishing itself as a tech city.
Merge VR
Location: Downtown
Industry: Virtual Reality
What they do: Merge VR creates virtual reality products for educational use in the classroom, workplace and home. The company’s products include a VR headset, educational platform, a mobile Miniverse platform and the MERGE Cube which lets users hold and interact with different virtual objects.
WellAware
Location: Shavano Park
Industry: Data
What they do: WellAware provides data solutions for the oil and gas industry. The company’s products help businesses in the energy sector effectively collect, manage and analyze their data. With WellAware’s solutions, companies can minimize downtime, decrease operating costs, ensure regulatory compliance and enhance safety efforts.
Houston
Houston is one of the 30 largest tech ecosystems in the world, according to a 2018 report by Startup Genome. The city is home to major companies in the healthcare and energy sector, but a unique startup scene is beginning to emerge. For a peak at the scene, we've rounded up a few Houston-based tech companies and startups doing some cool things.
FlightAware
Location: Upper Kirby
Industry: Big Data
What they do: FlightAware provides live flight-tracking services. The company utilizes data from air traffic control systems around the world to create real-time tracking tools for aircraft operators, service companies and travelers. In addition to millions of passengers, customers of FlightAware include United Airlines, TripAdvisor and Hawaiian Airlines.
Snapstream
Location: Montrose
Industry: Software
What they do: SnapStream's software helps customers record and search television for relevant clips and content. The company’s solutions are cloud-enabled so organizations can observe TV from different devices and record over 10 shows at a time. The company provides its services to a variety of impressive customers like The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, MLB Network, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and the U.S. Senate.
Dallas-Fort Worth
The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been a business epicenter for years. Being the home to over 100,000 businesses and housing the headquarters of major companies like Exxon Mobil, AT&T, Southwest Airlines and McKesson, Dallas is cemented as a major economic center. In addition to large, global corporations, Dallas is also home to tech companies and startups creating innovative technology and solutions.
