{"id":1162,"date":"2018-11-18T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peaksalesrecruiting.comblog\/austin-tech-companies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:36:09","slug":"austin-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksalesrecruiting.com\/blog\/austin-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Austin Tech Companies To Watch If You\u2019re In Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/picture>\n\n

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If you\u2019re a sales leader looking for your next career move, Austin should be on your radar. It\u2019s \u201cthe home of live music,\u201d but it\u2019s not just the music scene that\u2019s thriving\u2014the city\u2019s reputation as a tech hub continues to grow, and now may be just the right time to consider joining one of Austin\u2019s flourishing scale-ups. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here we look at ten up-and-coming, Austin-based tech companies that are already making waves with disruptive products and innovative positioning. They all have strong investor support and fresh, individual visions \u2026 and they\u2019re definitely worth keeping your eye on. <\/span><\/p>\n

Why? The city\u2019s tech community is attracting some of the country\u2019s top sales talent, but it is hungry for more. <\/span>Hiring grew 11%<\/span><\/a> in June 2018 compared to the same period just 12 months earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/picture>\n\n

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These ten exciting Austin tech companies are contributing to the hiring landscape and the city\u2019s tech nexus:<\/span><\/h2>\n

1. ThousandEyes<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand and improve connected experiences everywhere. The ThousandEyes cloud platform offers unmatched vantage points throughout the global internet and provides immediate visibility into experience for every user and application over any network. Companies can deliver superior digital experiences, modernize their enterprise WAN, and successfully migrate to the cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Industry:\u00a0<\/b>Software<\/span><\/p>\n

Industry Outlook:\u00a0<\/b>The cloud services market is expected to double from over $150 billion in 2017 to <\/span>$302 billion by 2021<\/span><\/a>, and grew 21% in the last year. Infrastructure-as-a-service is the fastest growing subcategory, and Chief Information Officers are using cloud services as <\/span>basic infrastructure<\/span><\/a> for new business initiatives. Enterprises are rapidly <\/span>migrating applications into the cloud<\/span><\/a> or simply deploying them in the cloud to begin with; 45% of applications workloads were in datacenters in 2017, down from 60% in 2016. Amazon Web Services has the largest public cloud market share, followed by Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and a long tail of providers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growth stage:\u00a0<\/b>Series C<\/span><\/p>\n

Selling tools available:<\/b>Free trial; demo request for lead generation; learning and resource center with webinars, whitepapers, tech talks; case studies in PDF and video formats; hosts an annual industry conference<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards received:<\/b><\/p>\n