Top 24 AI startups in Austin

Jul 25, 2025 | By Siddhant Patel

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Funding: $22.4B
xAI is an AI company that seeks to understand the true nature of the universe.
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Funding: $393.7M
Apptronik specializes in human-centered robotic systems. These are robotics systems that operate in close proximity to humans.
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Funding: $286.6M
SparkCognition engages in developing AI-Powered cyber-physical software for the safety, security, and reliability of IT, OT, and the IoT. SparkCognition builds artificial intelligence solutions for applications in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, finance, aerospace, defense, and security.
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Funding: $164.7M
Mythic goes beyond conventional digital architectures, memory, and calculation elements – rethinking everything from the ground up: from transistors and physics, through circuits and systems, up to software and AI algorithms.
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Funding: $148.9M
Slingshot Aerospace applies advanced analytics, machine learning, computer vision, and collaborative tools to data from earth and space, providing customers with clarity in complex situations.
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Funding: $108.4M
Paradromics is developing broadband for the brain
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Funding: $107.5M
HiddenLayer provides a software-based platform that helps enterprises monitor the inputs and outputs of their machine-learning algorithms.
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Funding: $80.3M
Diligent Robotics builds AI-powered robot assistants that do humans' routine tasks. Moxi is our 1st commercial robot helping nurses.
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Funding: $65.1M
Smarter Sorting is a machine learning for waste. Smarter Sorting allows municipalities to take waste of extreme negative value and use our proprietary software to sort that waste into high value commodities that are sold into established markets.
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Funding: $32.3M
Striveworks has created a fluid platform that adapts & readapts as it works toward a future where AI-based economy can free human capacity.
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Funding: $19M
Cerebri helps to measure customer success and to drive higher revenue and exceed KPIs with Next Best Actions, generated in real time for millions of individual customers.
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Funding: $17.9M
OneSpot generates personalized content after viewing a website user’s history on the internet.
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Funding: $13.8M
ControlRooms is the AI-powered monitoring and observability tool for critical infrastructure.
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Funding: $13.1M
StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit is designed to predict how well an audience will receive a book before it's even published. StoryFit is AI technology that analyzes book manuscripts and movie scripts to identify hits for publishers and studios
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Funding: $13M
Grid4C develops AI and Machine Learning solutions to extract maximum business value out of smart meters and IoT data, embedding algorithms at the grid edge, while delivering predictive insights for energy providers, their customers, and the grid.
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Funding: $10.7M
Refraction AI is a robot delivery startup offering food delivery service from restaurants to customers through its self-driving robot REV-1.
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Funding: $8.1M
BalkanID has developed the industry’s first AI-Powered Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform.
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Funding: $5M
Modern Intelligence is a technology company using proprietary advances in information and complexity theory to build one AI for defense.
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Funding: $4M
Autonomize AI is a Human-Centric AI platform that uses multi-structured clinical and biomedical data combined with human context.
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Funding: $705K
Vybe Software develops Leia - website builder that uses A.I. to automatically create and publish your own custom, high-quality website, blog, or online store in seconds
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro