Top Texas Defense Startups (13)

Striveworks helps organizations get the most out of their investment in artificial intelligence. Our proprietary technology allows organizations to rapidly build, launch, and maintain AI models—in hours, not months. Users can deploy them in one click and keep them working even when the world changes around them. Striveworks delivers trustworthy AI-powered analysis by creating models that “learn” and stay ahead...

Cyberhill Partners is the Enterprise AI Factory. We build and deploy enterprise AI solutions — fast, secure, traceable, and fully owned by you. After 7+ years building AI at the U.S. Department of Defense, we spun out that expertise to solve the hardest problems in commercial enterprise. With more than 1,000 implementations delivered and an $11M investment from Baleon Capital,...

Venus Aerospace is developing reusable hypersonic technology that will revolutionize and redefine the boundaries of aviation, defense, and beyond.

Dispel's flagship product, the Dispel Zero Trust Engine (ZTE), simplifies secure remote access, data streaming, micro-segmentation, and ongoing threat detection for industrial control systems and cyber-physical environments. An award-winning platform, Dispel has also received industry recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and Forrester New Wave Leader. Founded in 2015, Dispel pioneered the first network-level moving target defense SD-WANs and holds over...

SynMax is an innovative data analytics company dedicated to providing actionable intelligence to its customers and bringing transparency to traditionally opaque industries. Achieved by combining the objective proof afforded by satellite imagery with the scalability of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Synmax is set apart from its competitors by providing the ground truth behind the data. Why guess when you can...

Umbra builds next-generation space systems that observe the Earth in unprecedented fidelity. Our mission: Deliver global omniscience. To stay ahead of climate change, geopolitical risk, and other major crises and issues, we need a global understanding of what is changing, where, and how fast. Umbra provides easy access to the highest quality commercial satellite data available, which is an indispensable tool for...

Essner Manufacturing is a Defense/Aerospace parts manufacturing and processing facility. Our specialties include the production of sheet metal and machined parts, value added kits for our customers, and assemblies. Essner is accredited by Nadcap for Chemical Processing, Aluminum Heat Treating, Prime and Topcoat Painting, and Resistance and Fusion Welding.

Allen Control Systems is a defense technology company for a new era of drone warfare and to completely change battlefield economics. ACS is developing counter-drone robotic gun systems targeted at neutralizing attacking drone swarms, drones that are pre-programmed with AI, and drones that are non-jammable. ACS was created to lower the cost per kill of a drone to a few...

REPKON USA is a provider of turn-key complete production plants for the metal forming sector as well as a designer, manufacturer and supplier of key metal forming machines for the global market, with a well established reputation for outstanding performance. Recognized worldwide for its proprietary design and manufacturing know how, REPKON has been selling sheet metal forming equipment to producers across...

Redspin, a division of Clearwater, has become one of the most trusted cybersecurity companies for the Defense Industrial Base. Our exclusive focus on tailoring our CMMC assessment, training, consulting, and managed services for each client delivers peace of mind by lowering the risk of a security incident or breach, and meeting/maintaining compliance regulations. Since our founding in 2001, we’ve become...

Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that deploys advanced aircraft to greatly increase military capability. Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California and backed by leading venture firms such as Sequoia Capital and Bedrock Capital, Mach Industries is an engineering-obsessed team pursuing focused product bets to create value for the defense customer. They are dedicated to solving the next generation of...

Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.

VORAGO Technologies is a privately held, high technology company based in Austin, Texas with over 15 years of experience in providing radiation-hardened and extreme-temperature solutions for the Hi-rel marketplace, and recognized as one of Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. VORAGO’s patented HARDSIL® technology uses cost-effective high-volume manufacturing to harden any commercially designed semiconductor component for extreme environment...