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Austin venture capital & startups
Austin hard tech, defense, energy, and crypto with Texas operating leverage.
Austin attracts hard-tech and defense builders who want Texas costs with national capital access. See 8VC/Multicoin and our Austin startup coverage.
Funds matched by headquarters aliases; startups by hq field plus curated IDs when verified.
Venture firms in Austin
Matched from fund headquarters in our directory (alias-based). Dual-HQ firms may appear in more than one city.
| Firm | HQ (directory) | Leads |
|---|---|---|
| 8VC | Austin, TX | Seed, Series A |
| Multicoin Capital | Austin, TX | Seed, Series A |
Startups we cover in Austin
Matched from startup hq fields. Many profiles still lack HQ — curated lists in editorial notes fill gaps when verified.
| Startup | One-liner | HQ |
|---|---|---|
| Apptronik | Austin humanoid robotics company shipping Apollo robots for warehouse and factory logistics pilots. | Austin, Texas |
| Arpeggi Labs | Web3 collaborative music creation software (Studio and on-chain production tools). | Austin, TX |
| Base Power | Residential backup batteries and retail electricity plans that aggregate into a virtual power plant across Texas and exp | Austin, Texas |
| CesiumAstro | Software-defined phased-array satellites and comms payloads for space, air, and defense missions. | Austin, TX |
| Galadyne | Defense startup building scalable liquid-propulsion missile systems for strike and intercept missions. | Austin, Texas |
| Gym Class VR | Social VR basketball from IRL Studios—top sports title on Meta Quest with NBA licensing. | Austin, Texas |
| Method | Embedded API linking consumer debt accounts for repayment and balance transfers. | Austin, TX |
| NinjaOne | Austin unified IT operations platform — RMM, patching, backup, and remote access in one cloud-native console. | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Ollin Bio | Clinical-stage retina biotech advancing OLN324, a VEGF/Ang2 bispecific for DME and wet AMD. | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Rigup | Workforce platform for skilled trades in energy and infrastructure (now Workrise). | Austin, TX |
| Saronic | Autonomous surface vessels for US Navy and maritime defense at production scale. | Austin, Texas |
| Season Health | Food-as-medicine platform pairing meal prescriptions with delivery and reimbursement. | Austin, Texas |
| Sloyd | AI 3D asset platform combining parametric templates with text and image-to-3D generation. | Oslo, Norway / Austin, TX |
| Tenfold | CRM and phone system integration for sales and service teams (acquired by LivePerson 2021). | Austin, Texas, USA |
Related reading
Austin FAQs
Practical answers for founders researching this investor.
Open /vc/austin for fund HQ matches from our directory, then related reading for editorial shortlists.
See the startups table on /vc/austin. Profiles link to /startup/ pages when HQ or curation matches.
Start at /vc/austin, then the related blog hub and /directory for national funds.