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Silicon Hills

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name	Silicon Hills
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settlement_type	Tech hub
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Silicon Hills is a nickname for the tech hub comprising a collection of high-tech companies in the Austin metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas. Silicon Hills has been a nickname for Austin since the mid-1990s. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley, but refers to the hilly terrain on the west side of Austin. High tech industries in the area include enterprise software, semiconductors, corporate R&D, biotechnology, the video game industry, and a variety of startup companies.

Technology companies with offices in the area include Advanced Micro Devices, Amazon.com, Apple Inc., ARM Holdings, Cisco, eBay, Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), IBM, Indeed, Intel, NXP Semiconductors, PayPal, Procore, Silicon Labs, Texas Instruments, Oracle Corporation, Visa, VMWare, and many others. Dell's worldwide headquarters are located in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin.

Venture capital, incubators and accelerators

Austin was one of the top areas for venture capital with investors investing $621 million in 2013 (43% of that went to software and semiconductor firms). Some venture capital investors include Austin Ventures, Central Texas Angels Network, Genesis UT, and Tritium Partners. There are at least 15 startup incubators as well, including: Capital Factory, Austin Technology Incubator, DivInc, Founder's Institute, Tarmac and the IC2 Institute (the incubator for the University of Texas at Austin). Additionally, Austin houses several startup accelerators including Sputnik ATX venture-accelerator, Tech Stars, and Mass Challenge TX.

Austin Venture capital investment over time

List of tech companies with a presence in the Austin area

Main article: List of companies based in Austin, Texas

Agiliway
AMD
Adobe
Amazon
Apple
Applied Materials
Arm Holdings
AT&T
Atlassian
BigCommerce
Bazaarvoice
BioWare
Blizzard Entertainment
Bold Commerce
Buffalo Technology
Bumble
Cirrus Logic
Cisco Systems
Cloudera
Cyc
Dell
Dropbox
eBay
Electronic Arts
Facebook
Flextronics
Freescale Semiconductor
General Motors
Google
Honeywell
Hewlett-Packard
HomeAway
Hoover's
HostGator
John Deere
IBM
Indeed
Infineon (formerly Spansion)
Informatica
Intel Corporation
Magento
Microsoft
Main Street Hub
National Instruments
Nokia
Nvidia
Nintendo
NXP Semiconductors
Oracle
PayPal
Planview
Polycom
Pushnami
Qualcomm
Rackspace
Rapid7
Redgate Software
Resideo
RetailMeNot
Roku
Rooster Teeth
SurveyMonkey
Samsung Group
Silicon Laboratories
Smith & Nephew
SolarWinds
SpaceX
SparkCognition
Tableau
Talroo
Tesla Inc.
Troux Technologies
United Devices
Unity Technologies
Virtual Group
Visa
VMware
WP Engine
Xerox
Zynga
Zaiten

References

Zimmerman, Eilene. (17 July 2013). "Austin's 'Silicon Hills' Builds on Its Infrastructure".
(9 March 2016). "Could Austin — the 'Silicon Hills' of Texas — become the next biotech hub?". STAT.
"The Top 100 Digital Tech Employers in Austin".
Zimmerman, Eilene. (July 17, 2013). "Austin's 'Silicon Hills' Builds on Its Infrastructure". The New York Times.
"Austin venture capital firms every entrepreneur should know".
"IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin - Innovation, Creativity, Capital".
(1 February 2016). "Office Tour: Atlassian Offices – Austin".
(5 September 2019). "Austin's Fast 50: Quick-growing companies to watch". Austin Business Journal.

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