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TYE Boston - TiE Young Entrepreneurs
TYE Boston is a non-profit organization focused on youth entrepreneurship, providing high school students with real-world startup experiences and leadership development opportunities.
Overview
What TYE Boston - TiE Young Entrepreneurs does
What TYE Boston - TiE Young Entrepreneurs is
TYE Boston is a non-profit organization focused on youth entrepreneurship, providing high school students with real-world startup experiences and leadership development opportunities.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 13, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
TYE Boston - TiE Young Entrepreneurs as a community
Community overview
TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) is a youth entrepreneurship program initiated by TiE Boston in 2005. It aims to foster the next generation of leaders by providing high school students with the skills and experience necessary to succeed in entrepreneurship. TYE operates under the TiE-Boston Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and has expanded globally, now being offered in 32 locations worldwide.
Community focus
TYE focuses on developing critical business and leadership skills among high school students. The program emphasizes hands-on experience in building startups, providing participants with a rigorous curriculum that includes mentorship from successful entrepreneurs and industry experts. TYE aims to inspire students to pursue careers in STEM and entrepreneurship.
Member value
Participants gain hands-on experience in entrepreneurship, mentorship from industry experts, and opportunities to compete for seed funding. The program also helps students develop critical business and leadership skills.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- cohort-based
- Commitment
- moderate
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- August 10, 2026
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Students
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- bootcamp and community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed
- Regions
- United States
Community activity
Events and activity
TYE hosts several events, including the Final Pitch Competition, an annual event where students pitch their startups to a panel of judges, and the Global Pitch Competition, where winning teams from local chapters compete internationally.
Notable members
Key team members include Asit Goel, Founder and CEO of SammyOps; Girish Juneja, General Management Executive at Dover Corporation; Sheri Palazzo, Vice President of Engineering at Altaeros; and Philip Toussaint, Founder of Ecopreneur Media.
Common questions
What to know about TYE Boston - TiE Young Entrepreneurs
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Source basis
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Last reviewed
April 13, 2026
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