Austin based startups who've raised in the last year and are currently hiring
Fetii operates on-demand and reservation group rideshare with branded 7–14 passenger vans, QR-code individual payments, and a VSP program enabling third-party fleets to serve college-aged riders.
Jupiter Power develops and operates utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) across the United States.
Wander operates an app-based network of owned smart short-term homes outfitted with 1GB Wi‑Fi, workstations, app-controlled amenities, hotel-grade cleaning, and 24/7 human+AI concierge, automated by its WanderOS.
GoodDay is an AI-native, ERP-lite software platform that helps retail and e-commerce brands manage inventory with greater accuracy and speed.
Arintra provides a GenAI-native platform that uses LLMs and clinical knowledge graphs to generate explainable, auditable medical codes and documentation, integrating natively with EHRs like Epic and Athena.
Ontic provides a SaaS protective intelligence platform that aggregates open-source and internal data, surfaces pre-incident indicators, and supports investigations, case management, incident response workflows, and security training services.
Adaptive Insurance builds an AI-driven platform offering parametric insurance for U.S. businesses, including GridProtect short-duration outage coverage using verified triggers and automated, rapid claims payments.
TERN develops AI-powered satellite-independent positioning and navigation software for commercial and defense vehicles.
KERV.ai turns video content into AI-driven, interactive and shoppable experiences that boost performance for brands, agencies and publishers.
Aalo Atomics builds small modular Aalo‑1 reactors and Aalo Pods bundling five units to drive a ~50 MW turbine, tested at Idaho National Laboratory with an adjacent data center.
Knox is a managed cloud provider that accelerates FedRAMP authorization for software vendors, hosting and monitoring applications, remediating compliance drift, and assuming security responsibilities on customers' behalf.
Volcon is repositioning as Empery Digital, executing a Bitcoin treasury strategy via Gemini custody and converting its power-sports unit into an asset-light Empery Mobility division.
Tesoro XP is a retail-funded rewards platform that lets gamers earn premium in-game currency through verified real-world purchases.
QbDVision is a cloud-based Digital CMC workspace that structures, links, and curates development and manufacturing data to automate CMC workflows, support tech-transfer, and enable data-driven decisions.
HackerPulse provides a dashboard integrating with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket plus product analytics to visualize engineering time allocation, identify cross-team bottlenecks, and guide team formation and workflow optimization.
Saronic designs and manufactures autonomous surface vessels for naval customers, producing multiple ASV models with integrated autonomous software, payload modularity, GPS/comms-denied operation, and plans for scalable domestic shipyard production.
Lakefusion provides an AI-native master data management platform natively integrated with the Databricks Lakehouse.
Lucky Energy makes zero-sugar, five-ingredient energy drinks designed to provide clean, sustained energy and is rapidly scaling its U.S. retail footprint.
PreFix is a subscription, tech-enabled home maintenance service that assigns Home Managers for seasonal preventive maintenance and most repairs, deploying vetted contractors for complex repairs at negotiated rates.
Niural provides an AI-native PEO platform with proprietary tax engines, integrated payments, and EMMA executional AI to automate payroll, HR, and back-office operations for SMBs and mid-market firms.
CleanPlanet operates a recycling-as-a-service model deploying proprietary on-site solvent recovery units across industries (flexible packaging, coatings, automotive, chemicals) to enable on-site solvent reuse and reduce transport-intensive disposal.
Throne makes an AI-powered device that mounts to home toilets and uses computer vision to analyze waste for gut, urological and hydration health insights.
ElephantSqlDB offers a quantum-augmented, GPU-optimized database that delivers constant-time (O(1)) query performance for enterprise AI and analytics workloads.
E.J. Ward provides integrated fuel management, telematics, and EV-charging solutions for fleet operators.
Vellum Health provides a tech-enabled mobile platform for on-demand IV access, infusion therapy, and on-site blood transfusions in SNFs, LTACs, and homes, using AI-enabled EMR integration and care navigation.
Nucleus4D is a spatial computing platform that converts real-world properties into high-fidelity, AI-ready digital twins for use in real estate, immersive media, and future physical-AI applications.
NoScrubs provides app-based wash-and-fold laundry pickup and same-day folded delivery via a network of partner facilities that minimize travel and logistics time.
Mentium provides AI-powered digital workers that automate back-office workflows for freight brokerages and other logistics companies.
Colossal Biosciences is a Dallas-based de-extinction company developing technologies to restore extinct and critically endangered species, including efforts to revive the dodo.
Matey builds AI legal software for criminal defense; CrimD ingests and organizes discovery, transcribes digital media, analyzes case facts, and generates trial-ready outputs for defenders and law firms.
Noveon Magnetics is a U.S.-based manufacturer of sintered rare-earth permanent magnets using a proprietary closed-loop, EcoFlux technology.
Hexium operates a laser-driven AVLIS process that uses picometer-precise, low-power lasers to ionize lithium-6 from vapor, collect ions on charged plates, condense and package separated lithium-6 and lithium-7.
Harbor Health is a healthcare provider and insurer pairing primary care with integrated specialty services and longitudinal coverage, connecting members to dedicated care teams and customized care pathways.
Nurocor provides a cloud-based platform for pharmaceutical clinical development that automates protocol design, governance, reusability, and site competency to accelerate trial lifecycles and improve operational efficiency.
Allen Control Systems builds autonomous robotic weapon systems using AI, computer vision, and proprietary controls to convert legacy or modern guns into counter-drone precision-targeting platforms for military and security users.
Curative offers an employer-based health insurance plan with $0 out-of-pocket costs, combining AI-powered member support and a nationwide provider network.
Plant People is a supplement brand that makes sugar-free, gluten-free functional gummies targeting immunity, gut health, stress, weight management and hydration.
Solace is a digital health platform that matches patients with trained advocates via a proprietary EHR and data platform, enabling real-time communication, nationwide advocate coverage, and EMR-integrated outcomes monitoring.
Scorability provides an AI-driven recruiting marketplace that helps college coaches discover, evaluate, and connect with more than a million prospective student-athletes.
Augment provides Augie, an AI assistant automating freight operations via voice, email, SMS, Slack and Telegram—handling bids, tracking, load building, invoicing, workflows and system integrations for FTL, LTL, drayage.
TurnKey Lender is an AI-powered, cloud SaaS platform that automates the end-to-end loan lifecycle—origination, underwriting/decisioning, servicing, collections, and compliance—for banks, fintechs, and embedded lenders globally.
GrowthLoop provides an agentic AI-powered, composable customer data platform that lets enterprise marketers activate first-party data from their cloud environments in real time.
Lifeguard is an Austin-based startup offering an always-on AI security guard that protects individuals and families from online scams, fraud, and data breaches.
Mia Labs provides an AI-powered conversational platform that automates and unifies customer communications for automotive dealerships.
RunReveal provides an AI-native security data platform that ingests, normalizes, transforms, routes, and retains logs, with AI workflows, detections-as-code, fast search, customizable visualizations, and 40+ integrations.
Hello Patient offers a conversational AI platform that manages patient interactions across voice, text, and chat—booking appointments, answering queries, and re-engaging patients while meeting healthcare privacy and security standards.
ePayPolicy provides an end-to-end electronic payments and AR/AP automation platform for insurers, agencies, MGAs/wholesale brokers, and premium finance firms, integrating with agency management systems to streamline billing and reconciliation.
Verisoul offers an AI-powered platform that detects and blocks fake users, bots, and fraud across the entire customer lifecycle.
Loxo provides a horizontally integrated, AI-driven recruitment platform that delivers talent intelligence and a single system-of-record to manage the full hiring lifecycle for recruiters in the US and UK.
Overhaul provides in-transit supply-chain visibility and risk-management software that ingests telemetry and contextual data, uses AI to detect at-risk shipments, trigger corrective actions, and manage cold-chain and compliance workflows.
Sweatpals is a community-driven fitness marketplace that helps people forge social connections through real-world wellness experiences.
Phantom Neuro develops a minimally invasive neural interface system combining low-power implantable sensors, AI, and software to provide high-accuracy, real-time control of prosthetic limbs and robotic exoskeletons.
Autonomize AI provides a healthcare-native agentic AI orchestration platform with pre-trained medical LLM agents for care management, utilization and chart-review workflows, supporting multimodal data, fine-tuning, VPC deployment, and PHI anonymization.
DealHub.io provides an agentic platform that unifies CPQ, billing, and revenue orchestration to automate enterprise quote-to-revenue processes.
Significo develops AI-powered digital therapeutic and personalized health platforms that support patients, providers, and payors.
Portnox provides a cloud-native Unified Access Control/NAC SaaS (Portnox CLEAR) that enforces passwordless authentication, authorization, endpoint risk posture assessment, automated remediation, and compliance across networks, apps, and infrastructure.
Eve Security provides an agentic AI observability and policy-enforcement platform that protects enterprises’ most critical systems from insecure or rogue AI agents.
Avride develops and operates autonomous vehicles and delivery robots that share common self-driving technology.
Neutrl builds a market-neutral synthetic dollar (NUSD) that generates yield and capital efficiency via delta-neutral strategies backed by discounted assets, bridging private OTC markets and DeFi for OTC arbitrage.
Supra Elemental Recovery develops a reusable, 3D-printed cartridge system that extracts high-purity critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, gallium and scandium from domestic industrial and electronic waste streams.
SkyFi provides an AI-driven self-service platform that lets businesses, governments and individuals task satellites and analyze geospatial imagery on demand.
Ruli.ai provides an AI-native continuous legal intelligence platform that helps in-house legal teams operate more efficiently and proactively.
Anaconda provides an enterprise Python distribution and AI platform that manages development environments, trusted packages, secure AI workflows, and a model hub for Python models, datasets, libraries, and dependencies.
Skyways manufactures long-range autonomous VTOL cargo aircraft (V2, V3) with double-hybrid electric-fuel propulsion, ~100 lb payload, 1,000+ mile range, 20+ hour endurance, and scaling for mass production.
Adapt.com provides an AI operating layer that connects a company’s existing tools, understands business context, and autonomously executes workflows for employees.
Maxwell Biosciences develops CLAROMER™, an AI-driven platform producing patented host-defense peptidomimetic molecules that target microbial membranes to destroy bacteria, viruses, fungi, and biofilms for topical applications.
Equal Parts integrates AI-driven automation and systems integration into relationship-based insurance distribution, acquiring and modernizing independent agencies to automate administrative tasks while preserving agent-client relationships.
QuoteWell is an Austin-based, AI-powered wholesale insurance brokerage that helps producers place complex commercial risks in the non-admitted market.
CleanArc Data Centers develops and operates renewables-focused hyperscale data center campuses, offering turnkey design, construction, commissioning plus True Additionality load-following carbon-free power sourced from solar, wind, storage, and hydro.
NetRise provides a SaaS platform analyzing compiled code and device firmware, generating SBOMs and software asset inventories, and continuously monitoring XIoT and supply-chain software for vulnerabilities and incident response.
Polygraf AI provides a low-compute, enterprise AI security platform that detects AI-driven risks, fraud and insider threats for mission-critical organizations.
Twenty One Capital is a bitcoin-treasury firm being launched via a SPAC merger to hold large BTC reserves and become a publicly traded company.
Funga develops DNA‑sequencing and ML‑driven forest microbiome profiles to formulate and apply native mycorrhizal inoculants to nursery seedlings, plus software recommending fungal mixes and measuring soil carbon impacts.
ICON develops large-scale 3D‑printing robotics (Vulcan, Phoenix), materials and software, and constructs 3D‑printed homes and structures for residential, affordable, defense, and space habitat projects.
Function Health provides a device-agnostic platform that combines regular lab testing with consolidated health data and an AI model to deliver personalized medical insights to consumers.
Maestro provides an enterprise-grade, scalable infrastructure stack and UTXO indexing platform for Bitcoin DeFi, integrating with wallets, DEXs, lending protocols and enabling contract programmability via a parallel execution layer.
AirStrip is an enterprise AI healthcare technology company that provides clinical surveillance, decision support, patient monitoring, and alarm management solutions to hospitals and health systems.
Lumaegis develops the RadBox, a patent-protected sterilization device using dual-modality germicidal and thermal LEDs, holds FDA De Novo classification, and is pursuing UL/CE testing and production from Austin.
Command Zero provides an autonomous, AI-assisted cyber investigation platform combining encoded expert workflows, LLM-driven automation, and federated, technology-agnostic querying with automated reporting and timeline generation for enterprise SOC analysts.
Recess operates a marketplace platform for parents to discover and book enrichment classes, after-school care, and camps, with live search and booking rollout starting in Austin and national expansion.
Share One provides a verified video testimonial platform that captures authentic customer stories to build brand trust.
Base Power provides leased, high-capacity home battery systems that double as grid assets for Texas homeowners.
RankTitan.ai is an AI-powered local SEO platform that improves Google Maps visibility, monitors online reputation, and tracks local search performance for businesses across North America, Latin America, and Europe.
Nudge Security provides automated SaaS and AI security governance at the workforce edge, giving organizations real-time visibility and policy-driven guardrails for employee-chosen applications.
Guild is a blockchain-enabled platform that lets music artists and creators earn on-chain ownership stakes through “Note” tokens while using integrated smart-contract, AI, and community tools.
SEON provides an AI-driven software platform that helps businesses prevent fraud and meet AML compliance requirements without hindering legitimate customer activity.
bioAffinity Technologies develops a porphyrin-based CyPath platform for non-invasive early cancer diagnostics — an at-home sputum collection and lab-based automated flow-cytometric lung cancer test — and advances targeted therapeutics via OncoSelect
Swarmer is a Ukrainian technology company developing AI systems that coordinate military drone swarms.
GetReal operates a forensics platform analyzing audio, video and images via web interface, API and integrations to detect deepfakes and impersonations, with Inspect, Protect, Respond and threat dashboard.
Blueprint Data Centers develops and operates U.S. data centers engineered for high-performance computing, employing power-constrained site strategies to deliver two Austin campuses totaling 85MW with committed utility power.
Flo Recruit provides a SaaS applicant-tracking platform connecting law firms and schools, centralizing candidate data and managing recruitment workflows, firm profiles, job listings, and networking
Lendflow offers white-label, low-code embedded credit infrastructure—APIs, proprietary decisioning OS, KYB and credit verification—to help vertical SaaS and fintechs launch and operate branded lending products rapidly.
Legion Health is a Texas-based full-stack virtual mental-health clinic that uses AI to deliver next-day psychiatric care.
Mavvrik provides a financial control platform for IT with real-time cost visibility, cost-allocation and chargebacks, budget guardrails, anomaly detection, and per-model AI/GPU spend tracking across cloud, on‑prem, SaaS.
Ares Interactive is a next-generation, cross-platform free-to-play game developer and publisher leveraging AI workflows to create enduring player-loved franchises.
Neurophos develops photonic AI inference chips that aim to deliver exaflop-scale performance with drastically lower power consumption than traditional GPUs.
Vida is an Austin-based developer of an AI phone agent operating system that automates customer interactions for enterprises across voice, web and SMS channels.
CertifID is a real-estate wire fraud protection platform providing identity and device verification, transaction monitoring, insurance-backed guarantees, recovery services, and integrations with title and escrow workflows.
Prospyr provides an all-in-one, AI-enabled practice management platform for aesthetics and wellness practices.
Gyde is an AI-native brokerage platform that equips elite insurance, health, and wealth brokers with automation and operational support to deliver more personalized, high-touch advice at scale.
Episode Six offers an enterprise payments platform providing ledger, real-time payments, card issuing/processing, fraud detection, and 550+ APIs with multi-currency, multi-country regulatory support, deployable cloud or on-premise.
LeanDNA provides an AI-powered supply planning and inventory optimization platform for discrete manufacturing supply chains.
Vine provides a commercial lending platform for banks and credit unions that consolidates AI-powered document reading, configurable financial spreading, decisioning, and document generation for auditability and streamlined lending workflows.
Apptronik develops general-purpose humanoid robots, centered on its Apollo platform, for industrial, public-space, and eventual in-home use.
NinjaOne is a cloud-native endpoint management and RMM platform that automates monitoring, patching, backups, software deployment, antivirus, alerting, scripting and integrations for MSPs, SMBs and enterprises.
emptyvessel is an independent, remote game studio developing DEFECT, a cyberpunk squad-based immersive shooter for PC and consoles, operating with a 14-person team of veteran developers and composer Mick Gordon.
CesiumAstro builds modular, software-defined satellite communications systems that can be reprogrammed in orbit for connect-detect-defend missions.
Paradromics is a Texas-based neurotechnology startup developing an implantable brain-computer interface to enable communication for patients with severe paralysis.
Better Sour produces USA-made tart fruit gummies with globally inspired sour flavor profiles using plant-based ingredients and fruit/vegetable dyes, distributed in retail stores and on Amazon.
Routefusion is a financial infrastructure platform that offers a single API for businesses to embed cross-border payments and multi-currency accounts into their products.
Billd provides construction-specific financial and payment solutions that give commercial subcontractors faster, more predictable access to working capital.
Accelsius provides two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid-cooling systems for AI and high-performance computing data centers.
ControlTheory provides an OpenTelemetry-based Observability Control Platform that enables active management of telemetry—cost, operational, and adaptive control—via spike detection, cardinality reduction, intelligent sampling, and elastic telemetry pipelines.
BlinkOps provides a no-code security automation platform and security micro-agent builder that creates task-specific agentic micro-agents, integrating deterministic workflows, agent-to-agent communication, and 30,000+ integrations for SecOps and CloudOps.
Famous Labs is an AI-driven “vibe-coding” platform that has quickly grown to $35 million in profitable revenue with a 20-person team.
Thoughtful.ai builds role-based AI agents and an automation platform that uses LLMs, NLP, OCR, and RPA to automate healthcare revenue-cycle tasks such as claims processing, eligibility verification, and payment posting.
Wild Basin Energy is an Austin-based mineral and royalty acquisition company assembling natural-gas-focused mineral and royalty interests—primarily Haynesville Basin acreage—using a technically focused land, reservoir engineering, and geology team.
Mythic builds analog-compute AI chips (Analog Processing Units) that deliver roughly 100× better energy efficiency than conventional GPUs for data-center and edge inference workloads.
Mesa is an Austin-based membership platform for homeowners offering mortgage origination and refinancing plus a homeowner-focused rewards credit card that earns redeemable points on mortgage payments and household purchases.
Knit provides an AI-native, end-to-end consumer research platform that combines quantitative and qualitative surveys with researcher-driven generative AI to automate analysis and deliver report-ready insights for enterprise teams.
Infravision builds and deploys proprietary aerial-robotics systems that enable faster, safer, and more cost-effective power-line construction and maintenance.
Savara Pharmaceuticals develops inhaled pulmonary therapeutics—dry‑powder vancomycin AeroVanc for MRSA in cystic fibrosis, MOLBREEVI for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, and NanoCluster formulation technology.
Loman AI provides a voice AI customer engagement platform for restaurants that answers calls, takes orders, handles FAQs and reservations, and integrates with POS and ordering systems.
ActivTrak provides a cloud-based workforce intelligence and analytics platform that helps enterprises analyze work activity data to improve productivity, engagement, and operational efficiency.
Contoro Robotics builds AI-enabled, teleoperated robotic systems using customer-specific models, advanced grasping techniques, and human-in-the-loop control for trailer and container unloading in warehouses and fulfillment hubs.
Daylight Energy offers no-upfront-cost residential solar-and-battery subscriptions that network home storage into a dispatchable virtual power plant.
Nominal provides an AI-native platform that integrates with existing ERPs via a shadow ledger and generative subledgers to automate transaction matching, reconciliations, intercompany consolidation, lease, accruals, and period-end workflows.
Sensi.AI provides an AI-powered Care Intelligence platform that continuously monitors and analyzes seniors’ physical, emotional and cognitive well-being to enable safer aging at home.
Warden AI is an AI auditing platform for HR tech that enables enterprises and vendors to evaluate systems using proprietary datasets, benchmarks, and dashboards for fairness and regulatory compliance.