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These are the 51 top startups to watch headquartered in Austin, TX. We built this by parsing through nearly 300 Austin based tech companies, filtering for recently founded private companies and sorting by companies that have raised the most money.
name HQ City website Year Founded Total Investment Amount Company Description
Homeward Austin, TX homeward.com 2018 $501,000,000 Homeward is a modern home finance company that helps real estate agents and their clients overcome the limitations of traditional mortgages.
Bungalo Austin, TX bungalohomes.com 2018 $250,000,000 Freshly renovated & certified homes. Refreshingly easy home buying experience.
Wheel Austin, TX wheel.com 2018 $215,600,000 Changing the way healthcare works.
Atmosphere Austin, TX atmosphere.tv 2018 $148,742,688 Better TV for Business
Foundry Brands Austin, TX foundrybrands.com 2021 $100,000,000 Foundry is a brand acquisition platform setting a new standard for e-commerce performance and brand excellence with its data-driven technology platform.
Billd Austin, TX billd.com 2018 $90,000,000 Billd is a construction finance company that partners with regional and national suppliers across the U.S. to offer project-based financing to contractors. The short-term financing solutions facilitates immediate payment to suppliers while providing contractors the flexibility to pay for material purchases over time. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
GetBackd Austin, TX getbackd.com 2018 $87,000,000 Providing funding solutions so small business can get financing quick to get the working capital they need to be great!
UpEquity Austin, TX upequity.com 2019 $76,650,000 UpEquity is a tech-enabled mortgage platform creating a better way to buy a home. UpEquity empowers customers to close offers fast by leveraging its proprietary combination of free cash offers, automated underwriting and low mortgage rates. Even first-time homebuyers receive access to the best houses on the market, in turn democratizing the American Dream. UpEquity was founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson while they were attending Harvard Business School and later graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2019 accelerator program.
Blockcap Austin, TX blockcap.com 2020 $75,000,000 Blockcap operates as a digital asset miner. Blockcap currently engages in mining operations in North America, Blockcap aims to diversify its operations and acquire blockchain assets in geographically important regions that are technologically important to space.
Royal Austin, TX royal.io 2021 $71,000,000 Royal is a platform where you can buy ownership in songs directly from your favorite artists and earn royalties with them.
Profound Commerce Austin, TX profoundcommerce.com 2019 $53,000,000 Profound Commerce is a brand holding company with an employee presence in Austin, TX and Cebu City, Philippines. We implement leading product development, marketing and operational practices to help our portfolio companies profitably grow. Our executive team, investors and advisors represent many decades of experience in e-commerce, digital marketing and logistics.
Removery Austin, TX removery.com/locations/tx/austin 2019 $50,000,000 Removery is an innovative tattoo removal company with 40 locations across the U.S. and Canada, is the largest specialized provider of tattoo removal services in North America. Its laser specialists are highly trained in Candela's state-of-the-art PicoWay® lasers.
WayFr Austin, TX wayfr.co 2021 $32,500,000 Helping the world save millions of man-hours spent everyday booking freight.
Steadily Austin, TX steadily.com 2020 $31,600,000 Steadily is bringing fast, affordable landlord insurance to rental property owners.
Keystone Bank Austin, TX bankkeystone.com 2018 $31,000,000 Banking Centered Around You.
Katana Graph Austin, TX katanagraph.com 2020 $28,500,000 Katana Graph develops technologies to help people and businesses unleash the immense potential of their large-scale irregular and unstructured data. The company's platform combines algorithms, hardware acceleration, and emerging storage technologies to provide a graph database, graph analytics, and graph mining workloads with multiple orders of magnitude performance improvements.
XMTP Austin, TX xmtp.com 2021 $25,000,000 XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Quantum Loophole Austin, TX quantumloophole.com 2020 $24,620,000 Quantum Loophole operates data center campuses in the gigawatt scale. It specializes in meeting the needs of the cloud today and into the future with designs to develop clients' visions focused on power, density, scale, and interconnection.
AI Fleet Austin, TX theaifleet.com 2020 $24,500,000 aifleet is a driver-centric trucking company that offers fleet management AI solutions. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
ElectroNeek Austin, TX electroneek.com 2018 $23,655,000 Robotic Process Automation with awards-winning UX and developer features. Disrupting RPA market with free bots.
Sevco Security Austin, TX sevcosecurity.com 2020 $21,749,996 Sevco Security is a provider of cybersecurity services and products for cyber experts. The company designs solutions to solve hard problems associated with discovering the context of network-connected devices related to a user's network, thereby enabling cyber experts to improve cybersecurity situational awareness. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Redbud Brands Austin, TX redbudbrands.com 2020 $20,492,828 Ideas, People, Capital
AiMi Austin, TX aimi.fm 2019 $20,000,000 A new experience with music.
Creative Juice Austin, TX getjuice.com 2021 $20,000,000 Creative Juice is a full service Marketing Advertising and Design firm specializing in small to medium businesses. We have worked with companies and individuals in all stages of growth. From start up companies who are branding their business for the first time and looking for a variety of marketing tools in a compressed timeline, to mature businesses who are looking for growth in a competitive and ever changing market. We have the tools and skills required to tailor a plan specific to your business and your unique needs and target customers...we know how important your business is and we don't think you should have to compromise or fit into someone else's box or program. Our services and strengths include: website design and development, search engine optimization, brand creation and management, logo design, printed materials and graphic design, public relations, copy writing and editing, technical writing and more. Contact us today to see how we can parter with your business.
Expressable Austin, TX expressable.io 2020 $19,500,000 Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Osano Austin, TX osano.com 2018 $19,400,000 Osano is the leading data privacy platform, making it easy to become compliant with the laws of 40 countries. Follow us!
First Dollar Austin, TX firstdollar.com 2019 $19,000,000 We health care.
Darwin Homes Austin, TX darwinhomes.com 2018 $19,000,000 Darwin Homes is the property management platform that elevates the rental experience for property owners and residents. It offering a comprehensive set of services to Owners and Residents. Darwin is committed to bringing transparency and integrity to Property Management - elevating the experience once and for all.
ConverseNow Austin, TX conversenow.ai 2018 $18,250,000 Automating and personalizing restaurant orders on high volume voice channels ex phone, drive-thru & self-service kiosks.
Decent Austin, TX decent.com 2018 $18,000,000 Affordable health insurance for self-employed people, and then for all.
Kronologic Austin, TX kronologic.ai 2019 $17,500,000 Monetize & automate your most valuable resource... TIME.
HealthGrowth Capital Austin, TX healthgrowth.com 2020 $16,800,000 Leading Strategic Consulting and Direct Lender to Community Pharmacies.
Civitech Austin, TX civitech.io 2019 $16,499,999 Civitech is a political technology startup devoted to applying technology-based solutions to civic problems.
Locale Austin, TX shoplocale.com 2020 $15,625,000 High-quality accommodations for weekly and monthly stays.
Canteen Spirits Austin, TX drinkcanteen.com 2019 $15,500,000 For wherever your adventure takes you.
Palladius Austin, TX palladius.com 2021 $15,000,000 Palladius is an innovative real estate investment management organization focused on investing capital on behalf of institutional investors.
CognitOps Austin, TX cognitops.com 2018 $14,505,000 The CognitOps Warehouse Operating System empowers leaders to unleash their DC potential
Lendflow Austin, TX lendflow.io 2019 $13,500,000 Lendflow enables software companies to embed lending services into their software.
Rocket Dollar Austin, TX rocketdollar.com 2018 $13,468,000 Yup, you can invest your old 401(k)s and IRAs into cool things. Welcome to \'21st Century diversification\'
BluePallet Austin, TX bluepallet.io 2020 $12,733,000 BluePallet is a vertically integrated B2B platform for industrial trade.
Cion Digital Austin, TX ciondigital.com 2021 $12,000,000 Cion Digital’s proprietary Blockchain Orchestration Platform allows institutions to build innovative finance solutions quickly, and to seamlessly connect their legacy systems with the complex and ever-changing world of decentralized finance. We help clients grow and protect revenue opportunities by expanding and integrating their existing financial systems to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital asset economy.
Podium Education Austin, TX podiumeducation.com 2018 $12,000,000 Every student deserves access to a great education. At Podium, we partner with universities to deliver online global education programs that expand access, increase enrollment, and produce great outcomes for students.
Onramp Funds Austin, TX onrampfunds.com 2020 $11,305,134 Onramp Funds' innovative financing platform is purpose-built for eCommerce entrepreneurs. Their financial solutions fund your working capital needs, freeing your existing capital to invest in growth. With Onramp, you don't pay for inventory until you receive your sales deposits! Their leadership team includes highly successful entrepreneurs behind ShippingEasy and CSIdentity and growth leadership with ShipStation, Shipworks, and Stamps.com. They understand the unique challenges eCommerce merchants face. The team brings 40 years of experience empowering small eCommerce businesses, bringing a dedication to delivering the cash SMBs need, when they need it, to grow and scale their businesses. No other financial product aligns as closely with the requirements and sales cycles of the eCommerce industry.
Founderpath Austin, TX founderpath.com 2020 $11,000,000 The way SaaS founders get capital without giving up equity. Get $10k-$1m in 72 hours. Everyone gets free analytics.
Horizen Labs Austin, TX horizenlabs.io 2019 $11,000,000 Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift from centralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust.
Heroic Public Benefit Corporation Austin, TX heroic.us 2020 $10,949,929 Heroic builds a social training platform to help people become the best versions of themselves. Heroic is designed to effectively and measurably change people's lives. They aim to leverage the best of social technology and leave the worst behind.
Esper Austin, TX esper.com 2018 $10,716,406 Esper is empowering a new era of public administration with a platform that helps government evaluate and manage public policy.They partner with government to integrate and transform their data into actionable insights for more transparent, data-driven decision making.They’re a mission-driven group of technologists and policy experts passionate about improving the policymaking process in government.
Milestones Labs Austin, TX milestones.ai 2019 $10,323,296 Milestones Labs provides real estate services to assist people in purchasing a home, selling a home, and obtaining a mortgage. The company provides a platform for real estate professionals and mortgage lenders to improve the process of buying, selling, financing, and managing homeownership while adapting to the various business models of traditional brokerage, mortgage, title, and insurance companies. Milestones Labs was founded in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Place Technology Austin, TX placetechnology.com 2018 $10,020,000 Place Technology is a developer of strategic finance software used to serve SaaS and professional services. Its platform accelerates accounting workflows, produces accurate profit and loss, and unifies accounting data with sales and service data that enable businesses to improve their cash and financial forecasting.
AnthemIQ Austin, TX anthemiq.com 2020 $10,000,000 We build technology that helps Commercial Real Estate brokers manage their deals from search to signed lease. More deals, saved time, happier clients.
Albedo Austin, TX albedo.space 2020 $10,000,000 Albedo designs and operates satellites that capture imagery at a resolution 9x higher than what's available today. We're modernizing how satellite imagery is used by providing transparent, near real-time access to our ultra-high resolution datasets.
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Check out the full blog post and all of Austin's innovative tech companies here: https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-austin-startups-to-watch-in-2022

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