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

Aerospace and air travel

• Astrotech Corporation
• Austin Express- Shutdown
• Emerald Air-Closed

Architecture

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

Automotive

• Tesla

Beauty

• Beardbrand
• Birds Barbershop

Biotechnology

• Asuragen-Relocation to Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Luminex Corporation
• Sonic Healthcare- Bought and moved to Australia

Booksellers and publishing

BookPeople store at Sixth and Lamar in Austin

• BookPeople
• Clockwork Storybook-Shutdown
• Greenleaf Book Group
• Holt McDougal
• Landes Bioscience
• Monofonus Press
• Steve Jackson Games

Construction

• The Boring Company

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
• HelioVolt-Suspended operations in 2015
• Illumitex

Environmental monitoring

• VI Technology-Acquired by Aeroflex

Esports

Film and television

Sign for the original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown Austin

• Alamo Drafthouse Cinema^[2]
• Bright Shining City Productions
• FloSports
• Troublemaker Studios
• Uptown Studios Austin

Finance and banking

• Kasasa^[3]
• 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
• Bush's Chicken-Relocation to Waco, Texas^[4]
• Carino's Italian
• Chameleon Cold-Brew
• Chuy's
• Deep Eddy Vodka
• DoubleDave's Pizzaworks^[5]
• Gatti's Pizza- Relocation to Fort Worth before shutdown
• KaleidoScoops
• Live Oak Brewing Company
• The Oasis on Lake Travis
• Siete Foods
• Sweet Leaf Tea Company
• Texadelphia-Relocation to Dallas
• Tiff's Treats
• Tito's Vodka
• Whole Foods Market
• YETI Coolers

Gaming development, distribution and production

• Arkane Studios
• Aspyr
• BattleCry Studios
• Bluepoint Games
• Certain Affinity
• Crytek USA- Shutdown in 2013^[6]
• Devolver Digital
• Edge of Reality- Dissolved 2018
• Gamecock Media Group- Shutdown in 2008^[7]
• GameSalad
• Ghostfire Games- Closed in 2019^[8]
• Heatwave Interactive
• KingsIsle Entertainment
• Portalarium- Closed 2019 ^[9]
• Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc.
• Renegade Kid- Dissolved 2016^[10]
• Retro Studios
• Rooster Teeth Games
• Roxor Games
• Spacetime Studios
• Twisted Pixel Games
• Wolfpack Studios- Shutdown in 2006^[11]

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
• CompuAdd- Closed in the 90s
• Elgin-Butler Brick Company
• IKey
• Motion Computing
• National Instruments
• Ronco-Fully dissolved in bankruptcy 2018^[12]
• 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
• Forestar Group-No longer located in Austin, headquartered in Arlington, Texas
• HomeAway- Acquired and relocated in 2015 by Expedia^[13]
• Keller Williams Realty
• Opcity-Shutdown by Move, Inc.^[14]

Retail

Merchandise inside Despair, Inc.'s Austin warehouse

• Allens Boots
• Bravelets
• Despair, Inc.
• Eyebuydirect
• Kendra Scott
• L.G. Balfour Company
• Living Direct
• Outdoor Voices
• Tecovas
• 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
• Borland-Full acquisition by Micro Focus International
• Convio
• Enthought
• Evolutionary Technologies International- Bought out by Inspire
• Honestech
• Indeed.com
• InduSoft-Merged with Schneider Electric^[15]
• Meta SaaS
• Metreos-Acquired by Cisco Systems
• Oracle Corporation
• Pervasive Software-Acquired by Actian
• Photodex-Permanently shut down ^[16]
• Planview
• Pristine
• SolarWinds
• Spiceworks
• Spredfast
• Third Wire
• Ticketbud
• Trilogy
• Vrbo
• Winternals
• X Corp.
• Xojo
• Zello

Telecommunications

• Janet TV
• LifeSize
• Protect America-Assets sold to Brinks
• TippingPoint-Acquired and relocated by Trend Micro

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 25 December 2021.
2. "Alamo Drafthouse expands to D.C." Austin Business Journal. Accessed October 31, 2012.
3. Hipp, Laura (April 6, 2008). "BancVue explodes by bringing technology to small, rural banks". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
4. "Bush's Chicken rebuilding in Lorena, plans expansion outside Texas".
5. "Double Dave's Pizza Works Inc". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
6. "Crytek Lays off Staff After Selling Homefront; Crytek UK May be Shut Down".
7. "SouthPeak Games Nabs Gamecock". 14 October 2008.
8. "Catnip Games Acquires Shroud of the Avatar". Archived from the original on 2019-10-10.
9. "Catnip Games Acquires Shroud of the Avatar". Archived from the original on 2019-10-10.
10. "One studio becomes two as Xeodrifter dev Renegade Kid shuts dow". 29 August 2016.
11. "Shoot to Thrill: Playing Catch-Up with Former Shadowbane Develo". 24 July 2006.
12. "Court Records". Archived from the original on 2018-09-20.
13. "Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B". 4 November 2015.
14. Realtor.com replaces lead-gen products with Opcity referral model in 60 markets
15. "Why the chancellor may weep at Invensys takeover". BBC News. 31 July 2013.
16. "Home". photodex.com.