United StatesStartup ecosystemsAustin
City
Austin
The Texas capital and a university city. Technology employment includes branch offices of firms based elsewhere. It is not a smaller copy of the Bay Area, and it is not the rest of Texas.
Last reviewed 27 October 2026
- SectorsNoteThe kinds of firms that occupy space here. Software and a laboratory need different buildings.
- TalentNoteWhere people are hired from, and what the employment contract allows.
- UniversitiesNoteThe campuses that feed the labour market. A university and a startup are different organisations.
- Venture capitalNotePrivate funds share one federal rulebook. A national total, when this note prints one, is dated. Cities are left unranked.
- Company formationNoteWhere the legal person is created, and how that differs from a tax-identification application and from the city where the staff sit.
- ExitsNoteA public listing or a sale of the company. The federal pathways are shared. Whether the local office and the local jobs remain is a separate fact.
- EmploymentNotePayroll, kept apart from a funding announcement. Large employers and new firms are counted separately.
- Housing and commercial spaceNoteHow the jobs reach a bedroom and, only sometimes, a lease.
Delaware filings, the SEC private-fund rules and the H-1B cap stay on the ecosystems page, not on each topic.
The same place in real estate. The Texas tax rules are on the Texas real estate note.