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About Us

TiE-Houston is a not-for-profit organization focused on fostering entrepreneurship through networking, mentoring, and participation in the local and global economy.

TiE, which stands for The Indus Entrepreneurs, has become an increasingly diverse and international organization and thus also stands for Talent, Ideas, and Enterprise. TiE Global was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, California, and has raised up over 40 Chapters worldwide.

TiE's mission is to create wealth and raise prominence fo entrepreneurs, both the Indus population and all ethnicities, in the chapter's local community as well as internationally by fostering and supporting entrepreneurship.

Our members are comprised of people who represent a diverse set of industries. Included in the mix are presidents, CxO's, corporate executives, financiers, engineers, artisans, consultants, and business professionals.

Following the guideline and philosophies of the TiE organization, the Houston chapter will attempt to mobilize the people of Houston and the Indus region based on the common tenet of entrepreneurship. Because TiE's founders came from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the membership includes people from those regions. Increasingly, TiE is demonstrating its power as an inclusive organization, and its membership is open to anyone interested in working with and supporting TiE's main objectives. TiE will focus its energies on creating business opportunities, maintaining relationships through networking and nurturing entrepneruship, and will involve itself in political and social activities only to the extent that such activities support the cause of entrepreneurship. TiE is a non-partisan organization.

Importantly, the Houston region now supports a critical mass of Indian professionals and academics. In addition, the role and participation of Indus professionals in the current wave of business activity has burgeoned, and the need for an organization such as TiE-houston - bringing the Indus and "mainstream" populations together in business and social partnerships - is now more evident.