TiE Seattle

We’re so excited to be hosting the TYE Global Championships in Seattle on June 13 this year! 🌟

📍 Location: Bellevue College
📅 Date & Time: June 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM

This event brings together incredibly talented young entrepreneurs from around the world, and it’s always inspiring to see the ideas, passion, and creativity they bring to the stage.

Even more special for us this year — we’re the defending champions 🏆 — and can’t wait to welcome everyone to Seattle as we keep the energy going and continue building on that momentum.

If you’re part of the startup community, love supporting the next generation, or just want to be inspired, we’d love to have you join us.

👉 Register and find full event details here:
https://events.tie.org/Seattle/TYEGlobalChampionship2026IgnitetheNextGenerationofEntrepreneursHostedbyTiESeattle

🌟 Interested in joining the next TYE Seattle cohort (2026–2027)?
Applications are now open for high school students who want to learn entrepreneurship, build startups, and develop leadership skills alongside mentors and industry leaders.

👉 Apply here:
https://events.tie.org/Seattle/TiEYoungEntrepreneurTYESeattleApplication2026-2027

Hope to see you there! 💫

Sold out for tonight.

We’re excited to gather a room full of founders, operators, investors, and builders for Founded & Funded — an evening of honest conversations about what it really takes to build a company.

Not the polished version told in hindsight, but the moments in between: the uncertainty, the pivots, the near misses, the hard-won lessons, and the conviction required to keep going.

Looking forward to hearing the stories behind the stories from an incredible group of women who have built, funded, scaled, invested in, and exited companies.

Participants - Leka Devatha, Vandana Mishra, Palvi Mehta, Akhila Tadinada, Chetana Desai, Harini Gokul, Ambika Singh, Sharmilli Ghosh.
Hosted by- Moumita Bhattacharya

We gathered to celebrate the mentors of TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Seattle and pay tribute to Soma Somasegar — whose life embodied everything mentorship stands for.

Soma was a technology leader, investor, and community builder. But what people remembered most wasn’t his title or his résumé.

It was how he saw people.

He listened more than he talked. He simplified complexity. He showed up — genuinely. He believed in founders before they believed in themselves.

That’s exactly what our TYE team do every single day. Thanks to Kishor Panpaliya, Yashovardhan Wagh, Aalok 🦄 Doshi and Aravind Bala.

At TYE Seattle, mentorship means seeing potential early.

Vijay Vashee said it simply, and it stayed with everyone in the room:

“If we take care of our children, they will take care of our future.”

Thank you to Vijay Vashee, Gowri Shankar, Aravind Bala, Ezhilarasan (Ez) Natarajan, , Sharmilli Ghosh, and Haresh Ved for sharing their reflections and thoughts of Soma.

And a heartfelt thank you to Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, for partnering with TiE Seattle in honoring Soma’s legacy — and for believing in the power of community, mentorship, and paying it forward.

The greatest tribute to Soma is not only remembrance.

It is action.
To mentor generously.
To lead with humility.
To listen more.
To see people.
To invest in our children and our future.

And maybe ask ourselves — as Soma often did:

Are we having fun?