Slide Apply Now 2023
Global Program
for Women
Host of $100,000+ Equity free cash prizes

Early Stage and Late Stage Startups Founded or Co-Founded by

Women Entrepreneurs

Women co-founder must be majority/equal founder stakeholder
Companies registered on or after 1 Jan 2016 eligible to apply

Leadership

(2023)

Dharti Desai

Trustee
TiE New York

Komal Goyal

TiE Colorado

Ranjana Singhal

TiE Coimbatore

Smita Bagla

TiE SoCal

TiE WOMEN

LEARNING

ACCESS TO FUNDING

MENTORING

SCALABILITY

SAFE SPACE

COMMUNITY

Vision

The vision of TiE Women (tiewomen.org) is to embrace, engage and empower women entrepreneurs across the globe – irrespective of the size of the enterprises, origin, standing or background.

Mission

The vision is set to be achieved through a solid mission of sustainable and easy-to-adapt programming for all 61 chapters of TiE Global that will track the entire entrepreneurial journey with solid outcome metrics. The program is built on the Pillars of TiE Women: Learning, Mentoring, Access to Funding, Scalability, Safe Space, and Community.

Winner TiE Global Pitch Competition 2022

Azima Dhanjee

USD 50K
TiE Lahore

Amy Beckley

USD 25K
TiE Colorado

Nandita Shetty

USD 15K
TiE Austin

Best B2B Startup Award

Sarita Ahlawat

USD 10K
TiE Delhi-NCR

Global Pitch Competition 2022

Grand Finale Jury

Vani Kola

Managing Director at Kalaari

MR Rangaswami

Founder at Indiaspora, CEF & Sand Hill Group

Gopal Srinivasan

Chairman, TVS Capital Funds Limited

Nirupa Shankar

Jt. MD at Brigade Group

Finals Jury

Ankita Vashishta

StrongHer LLC

Anuradha Chaturvedi

Associate Partner (Human Resources) at KPMG India

Anusha Sirigiri

Assistant Professor at Indian School of Business

Dr. Aravind Chinchure

CEO, Deshpande Startups

Avishek Gupta

Caspian

Bhawna Bhatnagar

WeFounder Circle

Dagmar Turkova

VP of Partnerships EWA European Women’s Association

Deeksha Ahuja

Founding Partner Encubay Angel Network

Deepthi Ravula

Chief Executive Officer WE Hub, A Government of Telangana Initiative · Full-time

Hanisha Vaswani

Managing Partner – Majority

Harini Sivakumar

Founder, CEO | Building Earth Rhythm | BW 40under40

Dr. Lakshmi Goritiyal

CEO, SNDT

Megha Jain

Gates Foundation

Narendra Bhandari

Sea Fund

Rajeshwari Srinivasan

Titan

Ravindra Krishnappa

July Ventures

Richa Natarajan

Managing Director, Unitus Capital

Srinivas Rao Mahankali (MSR)

CEO – T-Hub

Sushma Kaushik

Partner, Aavishkar Capital

Tripti Shinghal Somani

Wommenovator, Managing Director & CEO, KGS Advisors

Victoria Mehran

Venture Partner at Expert Dojo

Sponsors / Partners

Silver Partner

India Partner

Supported By

Chapter Partner

Outreach Partner

Early Stage and Late State Startups Founded or Co-Founded by

Women Entrepreneurs

Women co-founder must own atleast 33% of the equity
Companies registered on or after 1 Jan 2015 eligible to apply

Chapters Winner 2022

Sahar Jamal

Maziwa Breastfeeding

TiE Africa

Dana Weeks

MedTrans Go

TiE Atlanta

Nandita Shetty

Lactation Lab

TiE Austin

Laina Emmanuel

Brain AI

TiE Bangalore

Gili Naveh

Cavisense

TiE Boston

Harashita Rani Banyal

MiaSiesta AI

TiE Chandigarh

Sravani Rao

Quantic Tech Analysis

TiE Chennai

Niveditha R

Machenn Innovations

TiE Coimbatore

Benefits to Participants

Equity free cash prizes

$100,000

Mentoring

by successful entrepreneurs

Investor Access

From around the world

Networking

With global participants and TiE members

Global Platform

to showcase your startup

Learning

Sessions and events

2023 Global Program Timeline

1

March 31st, 2023

Launch

Applications Launch
.
.

2

July 10th, 2023

Close

Application Close
.
.

3

July 10th – Aug. 31st, 2023

Chapter Finals

Chapter Finals
.
.

4

Sept. 1st to Oct. 31st, 2023

Mentor Connect

Chapter and global mentor connect + accelerator sessions

5

November, 2023

Global Finale

Global Finale at TGS Singapore
.

6

2023

empoWer IGF

empoWer IGF
(India Chapters only) (TBD)
.

Impact

# of startups
women founders touched
# of investments
Total prize money

Journey So far

1350+ Applications across 47 countries (4300+ cumulative in 3 years)
350+ Women-led Startups Accelerated
600+ Women Entrepreneurs received chapter level mentoring
100+ Mentors and Experts engaged
9 women-led startups received equity-free grants worth $257K

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TiE Global

TiE is the world’s largest network of
entrepreneurs with a stated mission of
fostering entrepreneurship globally

3000+

Charter Members

15000+

Members

57

Location

14

Countries

WEALTH
CREATED

$ ONE
TRILLION+

EMPLOYMENT
GENERATED

2.5 MILLION +
DIRECTLY

#QUANTUM OF
INVESTMENTS

$ 50-70
BILLION

#OF STARTUPS
MENTORED

25,000+
STARTUPS

Slide “The TiE Women pitch competion has helped
my startup fine tune our business model. The extensive
mentoring gave us an outside in perspective and
helped transform our idea into a global product.
Giada Bertola Erotology, TiE Africa