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2025 Best Tech Startups in Texas

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Powered by CrunchbaseThe 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:

  1. Revenue potential
  2. Leadership team
  3. Brand/product traction
  4. 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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10. ICON

ICON

Founded: 2017

Also honored in:

“ICON is a construction technology company developing robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction to tackle the global housing crisis and prepare to build on other worlds. As a pioneer of large-scale 3D printing, ICON continually sets new standards for delivering resilient, dignified housing and recently unveiled a radical new robotic printer that enables multi-story construction, a new low-carbon building material, a digital catalog for residential architecture, and an AI architect for home design and construction. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond.”

9. Infinitum

Infinitum

Founded: 2016

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Texas

“Infinitum is at the forefront of making electric motors more efficient, more durable, lighter weight and less expensive. Our disruptive motor and control products utilize our patent-pending Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and provide broad application across multiple industries. We work with global manufacturers and industrial OEMs to customize our technology for specific applications and market segments.”

8. Avride

avride

Founded: 2017

“Avride is a leading developer in the autonomous vehicle and delivery robot industry.

Our dynamic team, composed of a few hundred engineers develops and operates autonomous cars and delivery robots across the globe, shaping the future of mobility and logistics.

At Avride, we are committed to making the roads safer and more accessible for everyone. At the core of our philosophy is the belief in the transformative power of technology. Every product we develop, every test we conduct, and every service we launch is anchored in our vision of creating a safer and more sustainable world with help of cutting-edge technologies and breakthrough solutions.”

7. Axiom Space

Axiom Space

Founded: 2015

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“Axiom exists to create a thriving home in space that benefits every human, everywhere.

The International Space Station’s life is finite, and the world will soon be in need of a new space station. Axiom, whose leadership has been involved in every ISS mission since the program’s inception, is taking on this challenge by supporting expanded utilization of the ISS today while creating the first international commercial space station to later host government astronauts, private companies, and individual explorers alike.

Our low-cost Low Earth Orbit platform access and decades of human spaceflight management experience support the research, testing of exploration-enabling technologies, and in-space manufacturing that will create new opportunities for advanced industries, governments, and educators and enable future human space exploration.”

6. Homeward

Homeward

Founded: 2018

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“Homeward is a modern home finance company that helps real estate agents and their clients overcome the limitations of traditional mortgages.

Our Homeward Offer is more than an offer. It’s the power to buy a new home on your terms. It’s the convenience that keeps you from moving twice. And it’s the savings that come from having everything you need in one place.

Homeward has an office in Austin, TX, but operates with a fully remote workforce.”

5. Agora Data Inc

Agora Data Inc

Founded: 2017

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Arlington

“Agora Data, Inc. is a leading consumer fintech company revolutionizing financing for the subprime and non-prime markets. Loan originators can secure capital, obtain actionable loan performance data to improve their portfolios, and use a wide range of solutions to grow their business safely.

Powered by patent pending artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, loan originators can access real-time data analytics and planning resources to help optimize the performance of their portfolios.

Agora Data, with deep roots in automotive, made history by closing the first-ever asset pooled non-prime auto securitization in 2020 and continues to bring groundbreaking financing solutions to an underserved market.”

4. Island

Island

Founded: 2020

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“What if the enterprise had complete control over the browser? What would it mean for security, for productivity, for work itself?

Introducing Island, the Enterprise Browser – the ideal enterprise workplace, where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect. Led by experienced leaders in enterprise security and browser technology and backed by leading venture funds — Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes Capital — Island is redefining the future of work for some of the largest, most respected enterprises in the world.

Welcome to work as it should be.”

3. Lancium Technologies

Lancium Technologies

Founded: 2017

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Houston

“Lancium is an energy technology and infrastructure company dedicated to accelerating the energy transition, while enabling the scale and speed required by hyperscale AI companies and balancing and stabilizing the power grid. The Lancium Clean Campus and energy management services are designed to provide low-cost, green energy at mega-scale for AI data centers.”

2. Cart.com

Cart.com

Founded: 2020

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“Cart.com is the leading provider of unified commerce and logistics solutions that enable B2C and B2B companies to master omnichannel commerce, from product discovery to order delivery.

The company’s enterprise-grade software, services and logistics infrastructure, including its own network of fulfillment and distribution centers, are used by some of the world’s most beloved brands and most complex companies to streamline operations across channels and drive more efficient growth.

With over 6,000 customers, 1,600 employees and a nationwide network of 14 fulfillment and distribution centers spanning over 8 million square feet, Cart.com is transforming how commerce works in the omnichannel world.”

1. Plus Power

Plus Power

Founded: 2018

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in California

“The Plus Power team, led by seasoned executives from the renewables and energy storage industry, is accelerating the deployment of transmission-connected battery storage throughout the United States. Based in Houston, San Francisco and New York, Plus Power operates at the nexus of energy, technology and finance.

Plus works with electric utility companies to provide capacity, energy, and ancillary services from energy storage projects that can reduce operating costs and provide benefits to rate-payers.”

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