Texas

Funding into Texas startups has grown nearly tenfold over the past five years, reaching $11.2B in 2025. With $14.2B raised in the first 9 months of 2026, the full year is on track to land at $19.0B, a +69% change versus 2025. The chart below shows annual funding totals; the latest year is annualised from observed-to-date data and represents the renderer's projection, not a closed quarter.

Yearly totals mask the quarter-by-quarter rhythm. The chart below shows Texas startups funding raised in each of the last 21 complete quarters through Q3 2026. All bars are actual closed-quarter sums, no projections, no in-progress quarters.

How capital deployed into Texas startups is split across round sizes. In the trailing four quarters, 80% of capital landed in scaleup ($100M+) rounds, 16% in breakout ($15–100M), and 4% across startups (under $15M). Each panel below stacks the canonical sub-bands across Q3 2022 → Q3 2026.

The most active investors in Texas startups ranked by the number of disclosed VC rounds they've participated in. Austin Ventures leads with 203 rounds, followed by Y Combinator at 186. The table shows the top ten with their firm type, the rounds they've joined and the companies they've backed here (follow-on rounds make the first larger), and headquarters.

Two views of leadership in Texas startups: the most-funded companies all-time on the left, and the hottest companies right now by Dealroom Signal on the right. Total-funding figures include all capital sources tracked by Dealroom (VC plus grants, project finance, and other instruments). Signal is Dealroom's live growth ranking, these are the firms with the strongest recent momentum across team, timing, growth, and completeness.

How Texas stacks up against its global VC peers, with Texas highlighted. The chart ranks the top countries; alongside it, the leading Austin metro region leads the city ranking with $10.7B in 2026 Q1-3 (year to date). Use the metric pills, and the dropdown, to switch view.

Where Texas startups are based, each bubble is a city, sized by its number of VC-backed startups. The map fits to the ecosystem; scroll or drag to explore, pinch with two fingers on mobile.

In 2026 Q1-3 (year to date), the largest VC rounds in Texas startups reveal where capital is consolidating. The table below lists the 15 biggest rounds by amount, with date, company, round type, and lead investors; rounds without a public amount sit at the bottom with the amount left blank. Exits sit in the Unicorns & Exits section.

Which industries pull in the most venture capital across Texas startups, and where does the Texas punch above its weight versus the rest of the world? Use the toggle to switch between absolute VC funding and each industry's over/under-index, and to change the time window. In 2026 Q1-3 (year to date), Transportation leads at $5.0B, and the Texas over-indexes only in Transportation (35% of Texas venture capital versus 6% across the rest of the world, 6.07×), and under-indexes most in AI, Fintech, Semiconductors relative to the rest of the world. Industries are tracked through Dealroom's industry tags, which overlap, a company spanning, say, AI and fintech is counted in both, so these show where capital concentrates, not a mutually exclusive split of the total.

Texas startups have minted 138 unicorns to date. Dealroom defines a unicorn as a company that has reached a $1B+ valuation or exit (verified and manually reviewed; other lists use different criteria, this is ours). Of those, 17 are decacorns, companies at a $10B+ valuation. The ecosystem also counts 92 thoroughbreds: companies generating $100M+ in revenue (a separate lens from unicorns, with some overlap). The chart below shows the cumulative count climbing each year, with the line tracking new unicorns minted in that year, peaking at 30 in 2021. On exits, the sector has produced 592 tracked exits since 2019 representing $3.1T in disclosed value. Notable exits in the data include SpaceX | xAI ($2.7T, 2026), followed by X. ($45.0B, 2025), X. ($44.0B, 2022).

Entrepreneurship is a power law. Of every Texas startup founded, only a fraction attract venture capital, and far fewer climb each successive funding level. This funnel traces VC-backed Texas startups from first cheque through to the rarest valuation outcomes. Mouth figures are annual means (2010–2024); pool stages count VC-backed companies founded since 1990 by total funding.