20 Companies That Moved To Austin, Texas (2020-2025)

In this report, we highlight 20 major companies that moved to Austin, TX from a different state between 2020-2025. This research by Buildremote is a free subset of our database, Companies Moving To Texas.

This report was published on July 8, 2025. The research was conducted from 2021 onward.

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👉 Companies Moving To Austin, Texas 👈

Here’s a list of 20 notable companies that moved to Austin, TX since 2020. At the time of writing, our complete database has 53 companies that moved to Austin from other states. 

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Oracle

• Moved from: California
• Date: December 11, 2020
• Employees: 196,710
• Source

“Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas. We believe these moves best position Oracle for growth and provide our personnel with more flexibility about where and how they work,” a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.”

Tesla

• Moved from: California
• Date: October 7, 2021
• Employees: 64,860
• Source

“To be clear we will be continuing to expand our activities in California,” Musk said. “Our intention is to increase output from Fremont and Giga Nevada by 50%. If you go to our Fremont factory it’s jammed.” But, he added, “It’s tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come in from far away….There’s a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area.”

TTEC Holdings, Inc.

• Moved from: Colorado
• Date: March 21, 2025
• Employees: 52,000
• Source

“TTEC Holdings, Inc., formerly known as Teletech, announced it is relocating its headquarters from Englewood, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, to a new home in Austin.”

SpaceX

• Moved from: California
• Date: July 16, 2024
• Employees: 13,000
• Source

“Musk posted on X that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to the company’s rocket launch site dubbed Starbase in Texas.”

F45

• Moved from: California
• Date: June 21, 2021
• Employees: 4,950
• Source

“In a June 21 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), F45 Training revealed its headquarters is now in Austin and indicated it plans to become a public company. F45 had been based in Los Angeles.”

Digital Realty

• Moved from: California
• Date: 2021
• Employees: 4,690
• Source

“January 14, 2021 Said Digital Realty CEO William Stein, “”The central location, affordable cost of living, highly educated workforce and supportive business climate have helped make Texas an epicenter for business activity and technology growth.”””

Realtor.com

• Moved from: California
• Date: February 6, 2025
• Employees: 3,000
• Source

“Austin and Texas offer a strong and growing talent pool, a powerhouse economy with unparalleled housing growth, affordability of living only matched by its aspirational lifestyle, expansive tech and academic communities, and a dynamic and vibrant city at the heart of the thriving state of Texas. There is no better place for us to call home,” said Damian Eales, Chief Executive Officer, Realtor.com.

X (Twitter)

• Moved from: California
• Date: September 13, 2024
• Employees: 2,840
• Source

“‘This is the final straw,’ Musk said in announcing that X would move its headquarters to Austin, Texas.”

PEAK6 Investments LLC

• Moved from: Illinois
• Date: January 1, 2025
• Employees: 1,500
• Source

“PEAK6 will move its global headquarters from its current location in Chicago, Illinois to the company’s existing office in Austin, Texas.”

Green Dot Corporation

• Moved from: California
• Date: 2021
• Employees: 1,440
• Source

“May 7, 2021 “”The CEO called Texas a very ‘business friendly state’ relative to California, where local rules could dictate how the company chooses board members, for instance.”””

NinjaOne

• Moved from: California
• Date: 2021
• Employees: 1,240
• Source

“August 17, 2021 “”One of the things that I saw is that a lot of my friends and family and employees that are moving here from the Bay Area can actually be homeowners, which in the Bay Area is virtually impossible,”” he said. “”So I think it’s actually the hidden retention tool, and a great recruiting tool.”””

ABBYY

• Moved from: California
• Date: October 13, 2024
• Employees: 950
• Source

“Our move to Austin represents a significant milestone in ABBYY’s transformation,” said Patrick “PJ” Jean, chief technology and product officer at ABBYY.

Mondee

• Moved from: California
• Date: 2022
• Employees: 500
• Source

“July 22, 2022 “”Another Bay Area corporate headquarters will soon fly the coop, with travel tech firm Mondee heading to Texas.”””

QuestionPro

• Moved from: California
• Date: 2020
• Employees: 450
• Source

“January 21, 2020 “”Bhaskaran said Austin’s cost of living makes it easier to scale up and hire talent. Austin’s talent pool, and the ability to attract people who live outside of Texas were also factors, he said. (The Bay Area) was not sustainable for us,” Bhaskaran said. ““For the same price we can find really amazing people in other areas.””

BSU Inc.

• Moved from: New York
• Date: April 26, 2021
• Employees: 430
• Source

“US EMS provider, BSU Inc., was founded in upstate New York more than 30 years ago, recently expanded to Austin, Texas, setting up its HQ and manufacturing in a new – bigger – facility.”

T1 Energy (FREYR Battery)

• Moved from: Georgia
• Date: February 10, 2025
• Employees: 328
• Source

“As we move forward with our strategy to build an integrated American solar + storage manufacturing network, we intend to bring more than 1,000 new American jobs to the Texas economy.”

Sonim Technologies

• Moved from: California
• Date: June 3, 2020
• Employees: 280
• Source

“It has moved its HQ to Austin from California and cut jobs as part of cost-saving measures designed to put the company ‘on a path to growth and profitability.'”

Sourceability

• Moved from: Florida
• Date: June 6, 2024
• Employees: 272
• Source

“The move comes about 18 months after it was bought by an Austin private equity firm.”

CharterUP

• Moved from: Georgia
• Date: May 2, 2023
• Employees: 210
• Source

“CharterUp, which runs an online charter bus-booking platform, is moving its headquarters from Atlanta to Austin and plans to add 100 local jobs.”

The Joe Rogan Experience

• Moved from: California
• Date: August 9, 2020
• Employees: 3
• Source

“Texas JRE studio set up has begun!” Rogan said over the social media platform on Saturday.”

See Also: Every Company Leaving California | Every Company Leaving San Francisco | Notable Companies Leaving Chicago

 

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Sources & Further Reading

Here’s where we found our research. 

1. News stories linked to under each company
2. Dallas Regional Chamber
3. Office of the Governor, Texas Economic Development & Tourism
4. The California Book of Exoduses compiled by California Policy Center
5. Y Texas’s Relo Tracker