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Texas

State · United States · Pop. 31.3M · #10 region by EV

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🦄 New unicorns by year
8
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
73
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$2.2T
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Texas

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Texas-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Texas - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Texas-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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Top sub-locations

Inside Texas: top 6 metros

Metros inside Texas ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
1 Austin $2T
2 Dallas $195B
3 Houston $68.5B
4 San Antonio $11.4B
6 El Paso $62.3M
By 5-yr EV growth
1 Austin 14×
3 Dallas 3.9×
4 San Antonio 3.8×
5 Houston

Startup funnel

Texas's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed
1,147
Seed
1,027
Series A
1,005
Series B
583
Series C
361
Unicorn
98
Decacorn
7

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Texas

VC investment into Texas-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Texas

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Decacorns $10B+ valuation 7
X.CyrusOneNateraApplied DigitalAST SpaceMobileColossalRealPage
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 98
BigCommerceConsenSysISN WorldNetSpendOpen LendingRaptor TechnologiesIntraBioQ2Wheelo9 SolutionsNinjaOneHighRadiusFlashParkingHyliionBumbleZenBusinessCaris Life SciencesTeladocICON TechnologyTaskUs+77 more
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 73
TeslaX.CrowdStrikeRackspaceTeladocNateraGreen DotTaskUsRumbleONBumbleSailPoint TechnologiesCaris Life SciencesQ2Silicon LaboratoriesE2openCurativeNinjaOneKendra Scott DesignDigital TurbineApplied Optoelectronics

Academia

Texas's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Texas.

University-linked startup formation
115
University spinouts
2,208
Total alumni-founded companies
1,293
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
660
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
255
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Texas stacks up

Compare Texas with peers from the same country (United States) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Texas dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Texas's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Texas's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Texas's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Texas's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Texas
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Texas
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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