Data Report · Fund Formation by State · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
Venture Fund Formation in Texas: 216 Funds Filed (Sep 2025 to Aug 2026)
216 venture funds filed a Form D from a Texas address in the twelve months to August 2026, 2.36% of every US venture fund filing in that window. Every figure here is computed from the filings themselves.
Written by Michael Kaufman · Reviewed against our editorial standards · Updated
Quick Answer
Between September 2025 and August 2026, 216 venture capital funds filed a first Form D from a Texas address, out of 1,295 pooled-fund filings from the state and 9,169 venture filings nationwide. That is 2.36% of US venture fund formation and ranks Texas 7th among the states. The 129 filings that named a dollar target are seeking $6.23B combined, with a median target of $10M and a largest single target of $1.5B; 87 filings declared an indefinite or undisclosed target and are excluded from both figures. 211 of the filings (97.7%) came from issuers with no earlier filing anywhere in the warehouse. Busiest month: Jun 2026 with 32 filings; quietest: Oct 2025 with 11. Figures as of September 15, 2026.
Key Takeaways
- 1.Texas recorded 216 venture fund filings in the window, 7th nationally and 2.36% of the 9,169 filed across the country.
- 2.Venture funds were 16.7% of all 1,295 pooled-fund filings from Texas, against 42.6% nationally.
- 3.The 129 filings naming a target are seeking $6.23B combined; the median is $10M and 87 filings named no amount at all.
- 4.211 filings (97.7%) came from first-time vehicles, and 22.7% of the state's venture filings carry series-vehicle names, against 65.6% nationally.
- 5.Austin accounts for 58.3% of the state's venture filings (126 of 216).
216
venture fund filings from Texas addresses
7th nationally, 2.36% of the 9,169 filed nationwide
$6.23B
combined disclosed target offering
across the 129 of 216 filings that named a dollar target
$10M
median disclosed target
largest single target $1.5B
211
first-time fund vehicles
97.7% of the state's venture filings came from an issuer with no earlier filing on record
Month by Month: Venture Fund Filings from Texas
Filings are counted by SEC filing date. Peak month Jun 2026 at 32, low month Oct 2025 at 11.
- Sep 202512 venture
- Oct 202511 venture
- Nov 202512 venture
- Dec 202515 venture
- Jan 202618 venture
- Feb 202620 venture
- Mar 202626 venture
- Apr 202621 venture
- May 202613 venture
- Jun 202632 venture
- Jul 202619 venture
- Aug 202617 venture
The data does not explain why any month moved the way it did. Form D records that a filing happened, its target and its address. A month-to-month change in these counts is a change in filing behaviour, and nothing in this dataset attributes it to a cause.
The Largest Venture Targets Filed from Texas
Ranked by disclosed target offering, across the whole window. “Sold at filing” is the amount reported sold as of the Form D date: a fund showing $0 has not reported sales yet, it has not failed to raise.
| # | Fund | Target | Sold at filing | City | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8VC Fund VII, L.P. | $1.5B | $0 | Austin | Jun 29, 2026 |
| 2 | Transpose Platform BOV III, L.P. | $500M | $0 | Houston | Apr 9, 2026 |
| 3 | Goldcrest Capital IV-A, LP | $312M | $0 | Dallas | Oct 1, 2025 |
| 4 | Gore Range Capital Fund III LLC | $250M | $70M | Southlake | May 27, 2026 |
| 5 | 8VC STSD, LLC | $240M | $0 | Austin | Mar 17, 2026 |
How Texas Compares
Texas holds 2.36% of US venture fund filings, which is 7th of the 26 states with enough filings to publish. An even split across those states would be 3.85% each, and the median state in this series filed 13 venture funds against Texas’s 216, a factor of 16.6.
Inside the state, venture funds were 16.7% of the 1,295 pooled-fund filings recorded, against 42.6% nationally. The median disclosed target was $10M, against $520K across all US venture filings in the same window.
Read the count with the address in mind. Austin carries 58.3% of the state’s venture filings (126 of 216), and 22.7% of those filings carry series-vehicle names of the “a series of” or “Series 12” form, against 65.6% nationally. Form D reports the issuer’s principal-place-of-business address, which for a fund is often a legal, administrative or platform address rather than where the manager sits. A high concentration in one town, paired with a high series share, means the count is measuring deal vehicles filed through a platform rather than distinct firms raising funds.
Methodology
Source. Public SEC EDGAR Form D filings, collected by VC Beast’s daily automated ingest into our Form D warehouse (coverage 2024-07-01 through 2026-09-15). Figures on this page are as of September 15, 2026.
Scope. Industry group 'Pooled Investment Fund', original filings only (amendments excluded). Venture filings are those whose Form D investmentFundType is 'Venture Capital Fund'. The window is the twelve full months from 2025-09-01 to 2026-08-31, and filings are bucketed by SEC filing date.
Form D reports the issuer's principal-place-of-business state, which for a fund is often a legal or administrative address rather than where the manager sits. Delaware's count in particular reflects vehicles administered at their Delaware domicile address.
Form D discloses a target offering amount (frequently 'Indefinite') and the amount sold as of the filing date. Neither equals final closed fund size, and they are reported separately here.
First-time vehicles are issuers (by SEC CIK) with no earlier filing anywhere in the warehouse (coverage begins 2024-07-01). Each fund vehicle files under its own CIK, so this measures first-time vehicles, not first-time management firms.
Filings are bucketed by SEC filing date, not by fund close or first sale.
Which states get a page. A state gets a page only when it recorded at least 12 venture fund filings in the window — roughly one a month. Below that the monthly series is mostly zeroes and the medians rest on a handful of filings, so the state is excluded from both the route params and the sitemap rather than published thin. 26 states and territories cleared it; 25 did not and have no page.
Reproducible. Every figure on this page is regenerated by node scripts/reports/generate-state-fund-formation.mjs, and the California count is cross-checked against a direct count query on each run. Corrections: our corrections page.
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VC Beast, Venture Fund Formation in Texas, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from SEC Form D filings, published September 15, 2026, https://vcbeast.com/reports/fund-formation/texas
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Sources & References
- 1.SEC Form D filings via VC Beast's daily EDGAR ingest(Primary data source: original Form D filings from SEC EDGAR)