List of companies based in Austin, Texas

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

Fortune 500

(rankings as of 2021) ^[1]

• Dell Technologies (28)
• Oracle (80)
• Tesla Inc. (100)

Advertising

• Door Number 3
• GSD&M
• LatinWorks
• McGarrah Jessee
• R/GA
• RetailMeNot
• Rock Candy Media
• T3 (The Think Tank)

Aerospace and air travel

• Astrotech Corporation

Architecture

• Dick Clark Architecture
• Lundgren and Maurer-Closed in the 80s no successor
• Reclaimed Space

Automotive

• Tesla

Beauty

• Beardbrand
• Birds Barbershop

Biotechnology

• Luminex Corporation

Booksellers and publishing

BookPeople store at Sixth and Lamar in Austin

• BookPeople
• Greenleaf Book Group
• Holt McDougal
• Landes Bioscience
• Monofonus Press
• Steve Jackson Games

Construction

• The Boring Company
• ICON ^[2]

Data

• Forcepoint
• Global Language Monitor
• Hoover's
• NetSolve (Cisco Systems)
• Vignette Corporation (Open Text Corporation)- Headquartered in Canada

Direct marketing

• QuantumDigital

Education

• MakerSquare
• University of Texas at Austin
• St. Edward's University

Energy

• Crystatech
• Green Mountain Energy
• Illumitex

Environmental monitoring

• VI Technology-Acquired by Aeroflex

Film and television

Sign for the original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown Austin

• Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ^[3]
• Bright Shining City Productions
• FloSports
• Troublemaker Studios
• Uptown Studios Austin
• Shop LC

Finance and banking

• Kasasa ^[4]
• Dimensional Fund Advisors
• Farm Credit Bank of Texas
• Vista Equity Partners

Food and drink

Entrance to Sweet Leaf Tea Company in Penn Field Business Park

• Amy's Ice Creams ^[5]
• Carino's Italian
• Chameleon Cold-Brew
• Chuy's
• Deep Eddy Vodka
• DoubleDave's Pizzaworks ^[6]
• Gatti's Pizza - Relocated to Fort Worth before shutdown
• KaleidoScoops
• Live Oak Brewing Company
• The Oasis on Lake Travis
• Siete Foods
• Sweet Leaf Tea Company
• Tiff's Treats
• Tito's Vodka
• Torchys Tacos
• Whole Foods Market
• YETI Coolers

Gaming development, distribution and production

• Arkane Studios
• Aspyr
• BattleCry Studios
• Bluepoint Games
• Certain Affinity
• Devolver Digital
• GameSalad
• Heatwave Interactive
• KingsIsle Entertainment
• Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc.
• Retro Studios
• Rooster Teeth Games
• Roxor Games
• Spacetime Studios
• Twisted Pixel Games

Health and Wellness

• Fleshlight

Insurance

• National Western Life

Intelligence

• Stratfor

Internet service providers

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

Loans

• EZCorp

Manufacturing

National Instruments campus in Austin

• Cerilliant Corporation
• Elgin-Butler Brick Company
• IKey
• Magpul Industries
• Motion Computing
• National Instruments
• SuperCircuits
• Tesla
• Valence Technology

Medical

• Ben's Friends

Music

• Blastro
• Blastro Networks
• Collings Guitars
• Emperor Jones
• Waterloo Records
• Western Vinyl

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

• Bat Conservation International
• Knowbility

Real estate

• American Campus Communities
• Econohomes
• Keller Williams Realty

Retail

Merchandise inside Despair, Inc.'s Austin warehouse

• Allens Boots
• Despair, Inc.
• Eyebuydirect
• Flying Eyes Optics
• Kendra Scott
• L.G. Balfour Company
• Living Direct
• Outdoor Voices
• Tecovas
• TicketCity
• Whole Foods Market, a division of Amazon

Security

• Knight security systems

Semiconductors

• Advanced Technology Development Facility
• Cirrus Logic
• NXP Semiconductors
• Silicon Laboratories

Shipping

• uShip

Software

• Academic Superstore
• Agiliway
• Asure Software
• Bazaarvoice
• BigCommerce
• Convio
• Enthought
• Honestech
• Indeed.com
• Meta SaaS
• Oracle Corporation
• Pervasive Software-Acquired by Actian
• Planview
• Pristine
• Realtor.com
• SolarWinds
• Spiceworks
• Spredfast
• Third Wire
• Ticketbud
• Trilogy
• Vrbo
• Winternals
• X Corp.
• Xojo
• Zello

Telecommunications

• Janet TV
• LifeSize

Utilities

The Lower Colorado River Authority generates electricity from the Mansfield Dam.

• Lower Colorado River Authority

See also

• Silicon Hills

References

1. "Fortune 500 list of companies 2021" . Retrieved December 25, 2021.
2. "Intelligent Machines Building Humanity's Future" . Retrieved May 5, 2025.
3. "Alamo Drafthouse expands to D.C." Austin Business Journal. Accessed October 31, 2012.
4. Hipp, Laura (April 6, 2008). "BancVue explodes by bringing technology to small, rural banks". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
5. "Bush's Chicken rebuilding in Lorena, plans expansion outside Texas". January 5, 2016.
6. "Double Dave's Pizza Works Inc". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2008.