Tech Companies in Dallas: an overview
The Dallas Regional Chamber's 2026 economic development guide, using Lightcast and Bureau of Labor Statistics data, counts 330,457 high-tech jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2025. That puts DFW fourth among US metros, behind New York, Washington and Los Angeles. The guide lists 766 telecommunications establishments in the region employing 34,343 people, 771 data processing and hosting establishments with 16,316 jobs, and 748 software publishers with 12,494 jobs. The chamber also counts 49 Fortune 1000 headquarters in DFW in 2026.
The chamber traces the region's electronics industry to 1958, when Jack Kilby invented the microchip at Texas Instruments. TI, which began in 1930 as Geophysical Service Inc., still lists its headquarters at 12500 TI Boulevard in north Dallas. AT&T's filings give 208 S. Akard St. in downtown Dallas, and Match Group, the owner of Tinder, is on North Central Expressway. Two data center operators are also based in the city: CyrusOne on N. Harwood St. in Uptown and DataBank on S. Akard St.
Many tech employers sit in the northern suburbs. Plano is home to Tyler Technologies, Alkami Technology, Diodes and Intrusion, and Legacy Drive in Plano holds the US offices of Toyota Connected North America, NTT DATA and Ericsson. Further west, Sabre is based in Southlake, Solera in Westlake and Thryv in Grapevine. The chamber says more than 280 companies have moved their headquarters to Dallas-Fort Worth since 2010, including six Fortune 500 companies since 2016.