Join the Boston boot camp where high schoolers come to develop critical business and leadership skills for a career in STEM, entrepreneurship and startups.
2022-2023 TYE Student
Entrepreneurship Academy
Call for applications Now open
TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) is a global program dedicated to fostering future generations of industry leaders by teaching high school students the rewards and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur. The TYE Academy provides a hands-on learning environment where high school students experiment, build resilience and collaborate.
Through a series of immersive workshops offered in Kendall Square, student teams utilize modern skills and tools to bring ideas to life by learning how to get customer feedback, how to iterate and consider different business models.
The next TYE Academy will run from September 2022 through May
2023.
Give your student entrepreneur their best chance to succeed
Proven over 15+ years, our robust business curriculum empowers driven, self-starting student entrepreneurs to be the visionaries of the next generation and provides the building blocks for the launch of their most successful career. As a non-disruptive addition to regular academic programs at school, student entrepreneurs will:
Work with a team to build
a real startup
Learn directly from top industry
experts & startup founders
Build a professional network
and make lifelong connections
From being accepted into top colleges to starting their careers, our graduates have exceeded in both the academic and professional world. Our real-world career training has already produced hundreds of New England TYE graduates:
97%
of alumni report
increased ability
to lead
40%
of alumni report TYE
inspired them to start
their own company
90%
of alumni report TYE
influenced their decision to
pursue a career path in STEM
TYE Alumni:
make the next student success story yours
Himaja Nagireddy
TYE 2013
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Himaja is a candidate for a Master of Science (MS) in Environmental Health Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a National Council Member and Co-Chair for UNA Women at the United Nations Association of the United States of America, and interned for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2019. She also won the BOLD Women’s Leadership Network scholarship and was nominated for the Marshall, Truman, and Udall Scholarships at the University of Connecticut, where she graduated with a triple bachelor’s degree: Physiology & Neurobiology (BS), Molecular & Cell Biology (BS), and Sociology (BA).
Saniya Shah
TYE 2010
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Saniya is CEO and Co-Founder of Pilota, a machine learning platform that predicts the risk of disruption associated with air travel flights. She was named by Forbes as one of the 13 Female Game Changers of the Travel Industryand is an associate at the Big Red Venture Fund, an early stage VC fund operated by graduate students at Cornell University. She graduated as a Merit Scholar and Fort Fellow, with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Cornell Tech.
Kartik Shastri
TYE 2005
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Kartik was the Co-Founder & Head of Product at FillMyFork, a nutrition wellness product that was acquired by Series B startup Zipongo, which he started with fellow TYE alumni Arun Nijhawan. He graduated with a BA in Economics & Asian Studies and a BS in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University, where he went on to complete his Master of Engineering as well. Fun fact: Kartik was also the captain of the Cornell Bhangra team, which he led to compete in the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent.
Arun Nijhawan
TYE 2005
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Arun founded Remedy Health, a therapy program for chronic pain. He also started FillMyFork, a nutrition wellness product that was acquired by Series B startup Zipongo, with fellow TYE alumni Kartik Shastri. There, he went on to lead data science and guide product vision. He has previously judged and mentored the Big Ideas competition for Global Health business plans at UC Berkeley and has been covered in broadcast outlets around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, MobiHealthNews, and of course, TiE Boston. He earned a lifetime membership award from the Woodsworth College Students Association at the University of Toronto, where he graduated with honors in Physics and Astrophysics (BS).
Aneri Soni
TYE 2013
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Aneri is a candidate for her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Brown University, where she is co-mentored by Thomas Serre and Michael Frank. She also tutored elementary students through the REACH tutoring program and currently does neuroscience outreach at local schools in Providence. Aneri was a Torch and Laurel Mentor for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and graduated from Cornell University with a double bachelor's degree in Psychology (BS) and Math (BS).
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TYE Mentors:
access an incredible network of proven entrepreneurs
Harsha Prakki
CGI
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Harsha, a proud TYE alum, is the Founder of Qualtags and brings valuable experience in Business Analysis, Data Analytics, and Agile Methodologies. Harsha’s career has led her through the Health, Life Sciences, and Public sectors, contributing to sales, procurement, and client project delivery as a consultant in IT implementations.
Beyond IT consulting, Harsha works with food supply chain technology, where she developed a POC for an IoT-based cold chain monitoring solution.
Lakshmi Juneja
Kaiburr
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Lakshmi is an accomplished technology leader who excels at delivering complex, mission critical products. She has Deep Program and project management skills, excellent communicator at all levels, experienced leader and manager.
With experience in pioneering the startup of new organizations, and success in leading and maturing innovation projects, she has emerged as a very effective TYE Mentor.
Travis Matthew
OMC
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Travis is currently an Executive at OMC, which facilitates the business integration of these various opportunities through disciplined diligence, accounting support, HR solutions, legal strategies, IT infrastructure, and capital access. Travis is an expert in Fashion, Finance, Foods, Technology and has developed into a fantastic TYE mentor over the past few years.
Seshubabu Passam
PTC
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Seshubabu is a seasoned CTO/architect with 24 years of experience in a variety of cross-functional areas, including team building, architecture, hands-on implementation, rapid prototyping, security, mentoring, pre-sales, product management, customer success, marketing, and IT tasks. His experience helping startups grow from the ground up, scaling from single digits to hundreds of employees, is apparent in his TYE mentorship success.
Girish Juneja
Dover Corporation
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Girish is a General Management executive with cross-functional experiences in building technology driven businesses. He brings extensive leadership experience in P&L management, go-to-market strategy, ISV & OEM channels, engineering, product management and product marketing. He has mentored Aqua-Sol and Telepark, TiE Boston’s winning teams for 2022-23 and 2023-24.
Philip Toussaint
Ecopreneur Media
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Philip is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ecopreneur Media, a media production company dedicated to increase environmental awareness in the business industry and provide valuable insight into environmental issues faced today. He is also COO of Nomads with Solutions, an all-around digital agency run by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. He was previously a researcher for Boston Medical Center (BMC) and received an award for research on AIDS with Haitian American Responsible Teens (HART). He earned a double bachelor's degree in Business Administration (BBA) and Environmental Studies (BA) from Stonehill College.
Asit Goel
SammyOps
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Asit is the Founder and CEO of SammyOps, a smart fleet management platform and mobile app for owners of mixed fleets in construction and related trades. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Executive Education program for leadership skills and served on the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Delhi. He won the Global Emerging Leaders Award by Asian MBA International (AMBA) in 2015, and earned a Master of International Marketing (MIM) at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management
Sheri Palazzo
Altaeros
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Sheri is the Vice President of Engineering at Altaeros, a telecommunications company that aims to bring affordable connectivity to rural communities and underserved populations. She previously worked as the Engineering Manager of Productivity & Sustaining at GE Oil & Gas and has led product creation for multiple innovations—ranging from consumer headphones at Bose to telecommunications platforms at Altaeros. She earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) from Northeastern University.
Tuan Ho
Scholar Jet
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Tuan is CEO and Co-Founder of Scholar Jet, an education management platform for workers to enhance their skill sets and get recruited by up-and-coming innovation and technology companies. Tuan was named a Forbes Top 30 Entrepreneur Under the Age of 30 in the US (a.k.a. Forbes 30 Under 30) and is a Yawkey Foundation Scholar, a National Association of Asian American Professional Scholar, and a Greater Boston Real Estate Board Scholar. Tuan was awarded with the Young Leader In Recognition at the age of 15 from the Harvard Institute of Politics, and was named the Priscilla Chan Stride Fellow from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as well as the Spark Impact Winner for Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Mayor Walsh of Boston. He graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (BS).
Anjali Midha
Diesel Labs
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Anjali is CEO and Co-Founder of Diesel Labs, a Cambridge-based content analytics provider for the marketing and media industry. She has previously worked as the Global Media & Agency Research Director at Twitter. She earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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TYE Supporters:
network with the game-changers
Asha Dixit
Dixit Family Fund
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Samir Desai
Desai Foundation
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Nilanjana Bhowmik
Converge
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Venkat Srinivasan
Innospark
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Subu Kota
Subu Kota Family Foundation
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Sushil Tuli
Leader Bank
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Yash & Jigna Shah
Yash & Jigna Shah Family Foundation
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Renu & Kedar Gupta
The Gupta Family Foundation
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Neil Chheda
Romulus Capital
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Raj Goyal
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Dr. Amar Sawhney
Augmenix, Inc.
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Amar is the Chairman and CEO of Instylla Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in hydrogel technology. Amarpreet was previously a President & CEO of Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. a company focused on ophthalmic drug delivery. He was also the Chairman of Augmenix, Inc., Founder and CEO of Confluent Surgical (acquired by Covidien), and the Chairman of MarketRx (acquired by Cognizant), a provider of pharmaceutical marketing and sales analytics and intelligence.
Jit Saxena
Netezza
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Jit serves on the board of multiple technology startups, including Salesforce’s Demandware, Cambridge Semantics, Evergage, DataRobot, AtScale, and more. Jit also previously founded two technology companies of his own, Applix and Netezza (acquired by IBM).
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The TYE Entrepreneurship Academy is part of TiE
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