2019 Best Tech Startups in Texas

January 20, 2019February 22, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Texas. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

Revenue potential
Leadership team
Brand/product traction
Competitive landscape

Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.

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1. WP Engine

Founded: 2010

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“WP Engine is a new breed of technology company at the intersection of tech innovation and service. We provide the leading digital experiences platform on WordPress that drives your business forward faster. 5% of the web visits a site on WP Engine’s platform every day. We support over 90,000 customers in over 140 countries, and over 500,000 web experiences globally. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Antonio, Texas; Limerick, Ireland, London, England and San Francisco, California.”

2. Bungalo

Founded: 2018

“Bungalo is completely transforming the home buying experience by bringing every step of the process under one roof. Owning a home is the American Dream. But the process of buying a home, filled with endless uncertainties and steps, is more like a nightmare. So we dared to dream bigger – could buying a house be easy, stress-free, and even fun?

We launched Bungalo to make simple home buying not only possible, but a total delight. With Bungalo, buyers can search, tour, make an offer and even finance your new home with one seamless online platform.”

3. BigCommerce

Founded: 2009

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“BigCommerce is the world’s leading cloud ecommerce platform for established and rapidly-growing businesses. Combining enterprise functionality, an open architecture and app ecosystem, and market-leading performance, BigCommerce enables businesses to grow online sales with 80% less cost, time and complexity than on-premise software. BigCommerce powers B2B and B2C ecommerce for more than 60,000 SMBs, 2,000+ mid-market businesses, more than 25 Fortune 1000 companies, and industry-leading brands including Assurant, Ben & Jerry’s, Gibson, Paul Mitchell, Martha Stewart, and Toyota.”

4. Onit

Founded: 2011

“Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st century. Brought to you by the same team that created spend management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. Our solutions simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries.”

5. StackPath

Founded: 2015

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“StackPath is the intelligent web services platform for security, speed and scale.

It is the first platform to unify enterprise security solutions by leveraging collaborative intelligence that makes each service smarter and more secure with every threat detected, in addition to vastly improving the customer experience.

More than 30,000 customers, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to early stage startups already use StackPath technology. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, StackPath has offices across the U.S. and internationally.”

6. Alkami Technology

Founded: 2009

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“Alkami Technology, Inc. provides online and mobile banking solutions for credit unions and banks. Based in Plano, Texas, the company’s digital banking platform delivers unparalleled functionality, security, flexibility and extensibility with a superior architecture designed for the future of digital banking. With its modern interface, fully hosted business intelligence solution and customizable feature set, the platform is the ultimate digital banking solution for financial institutions.”

7. Compass Datacenters

Founded: 2011

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“Compass delivers your data center faster, with more features and personalization capability, that meets or beats competing alternatives, anywhere you want it to be.”

8. Armor

Founded: 2009

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“Armor is a born-in-the-cloud cyber security services company that provides uncompromised security and compliance for companies around the world.

We protect businesses’ data workloads and applications across on-premise, hybrid and cloud environments by being a single source for security talent, technology and techniques. And we ease the burden of attaining and maintaining compliance, wherever your data is located.”

9. HYLA Mobile

Founded: 2009

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Texas

“HYLA Mobile, formerly eRecyclingCorps, is one of the world’s leading providers of products and services that capture, extend and optimize the life and value of used mobile devices. We are transforming the wireless ecosystem by helping consumers realize and immediately take advantage of the residual value of their used devices, and are providing a reliable and responsible way of collecting, processing and distributing used mobile devices. HYLA Mobile’s approach delivers economic, environmental and social benefits to the partners, consumers and communities it serves.”

10. Hedera Hashgraph

Founded: 2016

Also honored in: 2019 Best Tech Startups in Dallas

“The Hedera hashgraph platform provides a new form of distributed consensus; a way for people who don’t know or trust each other to securely collaborate and transact online without the need for a trusted intermediary.”