Tech companies in Dallas-Fort Worth: the count, the counties and how to reach them

This page is for people who need Dallas tech companies as a list rather than a headline: companies hiring an IT partner, recruiters and job seekers, investors scanning the region, and B2B sellers whose buyers are software and IT firms. It covers the federal count, where the firms are, how to find them by name and how to work through them.

Tech companies in Dallas by the numbers

County Business Patterns (CBP), the Census Bureau's annual count of employer businesses, puts 7,996 tech establishments in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area (CBSA 19100) for 2023. Tech here is four NAICS industry groups: software publishers (5112), computer systems design and related services (5415), data processing, hosting and related services (518) and other information services (5191).

That's more than twice the Austin tech market by establishment count (3,712), though Austin's average pay is higher at $158,662.

Two centers: Dallas County and Collin County

Dallas County has the larger sites (about 29 employees per establishment) and 55% of the metro's tech jobs. Collin County, which takes in Plano, Allen and McKinney, has nearly as many establishments but smaller ones, about 16 employees each. Fort Worth's Tarrant County is a distant fourth for tech, behind Denton. The county rows add up to 7,941, 55 fewer than the metro total: the metro's three smallest tech counties (Hunt, Kaufman and Wise) aren't shown, and the county file doesn't publish every industry row for small counties.

What kind of tech: integrators more than product companies

Systems design firms, which plan and integrate hardware, software and networks for clients, outnumber custom programming shops here. In Austin it's the other way round. Dallas also has more data processing and hosting establishments (544) than software publishers (425), a sign of the region's data center and managed services base. If you need an implementation partner or managed service provider, Dallas gives you a deep bench; if you want product companies, the list is much shorter than the headline suggests.

Size: mostly small firms

That's 7,041 establishments with 1 to 19 employees, 687 with 20 to 99 and 266 with 100 or more. The classes total 7,994; the Census Bureau withholds two establishments' size cells for confidentiality.

Reading the numbers correctly

CBP counts establishments: single locations with at least one paid employee. A national consultancy with offices in Plano and Irving appears twice, and a company whose Dallas staff all work from home may not appear at all. Owner-only businesses and freelancers are excluded. Employment is for the week of March 12, 2023, and the 2023 figures were released in 2025. Chipmakers count as manufacturers and in-house IT teams count under their employer's industry, so neither is in these totals.

Finding Dallas tech companies by name

The Chamber's guide is the one published list of large names. Its Fortune 1000 map includes Texas Instruments and Match Group in Dallas and Sabre in Southlake. Texas Instruments is classified as a manufacturer, so it isn't in the Census count above, which is a useful reminder of how industry codes shape any list.

Evaluating a Dallas IT firm before you sign

Whichever group, confirm the legal entity with the Comptroller, ask where the delivery team sits, and get the scope, response times and termination terms in the contract rather than the proposal.

Selling to Dallas tech companies

Who you reach depends on size:

• 1 to 19 employees (7,041): the founder or managing partner decides, usually quickly and on a small budget.
• 20 to 99 employees (687): a COO, practice lead or head of delivery owns the problem; the CEO signs.
• 100 or more (266): functional leaders, procurement and often a security review. Expect a longer cycle and more people (see how buying committees form).

1. Choose a county pair and an industry code. Dallas and Collin together hold 70% of the establishments.
2. Pull names from the sources above, then cut national firms whose Dallas office doesn't buy.
3. Look for timing: a new partner certification, a hiring push, an acquisition, a new office in Plano or Frisco.
4. Lead with that timing in the first line of every message.

Worked example: a training company targeting integrators

Illustrative example. The company, people and rates are fictional, to show the method.

Northline Labs (northline.example) runs cloud certification bootcamps. Integrators often need certified engineers to keep their cloud vendor partner tiers, so Northline targets Dallas systems design and managed services firms with 20 to 99 employees.

• Tech establishments with 20 to 99 employees: 501 + 186 = 687.
• IT services are 6,784 of 7,996 establishments (85%), so Northline estimates about 584 in that band.
• It assumes half are integrators or managed service providers that hold cloud partnerships: about 290 accounts.
• Contacting 100 a month at a 4% meeting rate gives 4 meetings a month; closing one in four is one new client a month.

Building that list by hand means checking hundreds of websites for partner badges and hiring pages. Bebop takes a description like "Dallas and Collin County IT integrators with 20 to 99 employees hiring cloud engineers" and returns matching companies with a playbook for each.

Subject: Cloud certifications for [Company]'s new hires

Hi [first name],

I noticed [Company] has [number] open cloud engineer roles. When integrators grow that fast, keeping enough certified engineers for the partner tier usually becomes someone's spreadsheet problem.

We run two-week certification cohorts for North Texas teams, scheduled around billable work. Would it help to see the pass rates and cohort dates for Q1?

[Your name], Northline Labs

Next step: find the right person at each account with how to find decision makers.