From Semifinals to the Spotlight: Celebrating the 2026 TiE Women’s Silicon Valley Final
After months of learning, mentoring, pitching, and pushing their businesses forward, 10 incredible women founders took the stage for the 2026 TiE Women’s Silicon Valley Final—bringing their stories, ideas, and ambitions to a room filled with investors, entrepreneurs, mentors, and supporters.
The Final marked the culmination of the 2026 TiE Women’s Program, a journey designed to help women founders sharpen their businesses, strengthen their investor pitches, and build the confidence and connections needed to take their companies to the next level.
From healthcare and AI to technology and innovative solutions across industries, the founders demonstrated the diversity, ambition, and innovation of women entrepreneurs in the TiE Silicon Valley community.
🏆 And the Winners Are…
After a highly competitive round of pitches and Q&A, our judges selected:
🥇 Winner — Shital Tripathi, Founder and CEO, Pari Biosciences Inc.
🥈 Runner-Up — Mou Nandi, CEO, Monere Corp
🥉 Second Runner-Up — Katy Reynolds, Co-Founder and CEO, Shibusa Systems Inc.
We also recognized two founders with Special Mentions:
✨ Subaila Zia, Founder and CEO, Telemedora
✨ Cien Zhang, Co-Founder, COO, GTM, Topaas.AI
A huge congratulations to all of our finalists! Each founder brought something unique to the stage, and reaching the Final is an accomplishment worth celebrating.
🌎 The Journey Continues for Pari Biosciences
As the 2026 TiE Women’s Silicon Valley Winner, Pari Biosciences Inc. will go on to represent TiE Silicon Valley at the TiE Women Regional Finals in Los Angeles.
We are excited to see Pari Biosciences take the next step in this journey and represent our Silicon Valley community on the regional stage. Congratulations, Pari Biosciences! 🚀
💜 The People Behind the Program
A program like this doesn’t happen without an incredible community behind it.
We are deeply grateful to our TiE Women’s Program Chairs — Sushma Malhotra, Vidhya Ranganathan, and Deepa Nagpal — for their leadership, support, and commitment to creating opportunities for women founders.
Your dedication helped bring this program to life and created an environment where founders could learn, connect, challenge themselves, and grow.
🎤 Thank You to Our Finals Judges
A special thank you to our incredible panel of Final judges:
AGK Karunakaran · Ashu Garg · BV Jagadeesh · Grace Wang · Ranjani Ramamurthy
Thank you for taking the time to listen to each founder, ask thoughtful questions, and share your expertise. Your perspectives and feedback helped make the Final a valuable experience for every participant.
🌟 Thank You to Our Mentors
We also want to recognize our amazing mentors who generously gave their time throughout the program.
From sharing hard-earned lessons to asking the questions founders needed to hear, our mentors played an important role in helping participants strengthen their businesses and prepare for the pitch journey.
Thank you for showing up for our founders and for investing your time and experience in the next generation of women entrepreneurs.
🚀 From Masterclasses to the Final Stage
The Final was the culmination of a journey that included practical masterclasses, mentorship, founder connections, and plenty of pitch practice.
Our founders learned from an incredible group of instructors who shared their expertise across fundraising, go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, pitching, and building scalable companies.
But perhaps the biggest takeaway from this year’s program was simple:
Founders grow when they have the right community around them.
Congratulations to every woman who participated in the 2026 TiE Women’s Program. Whether you made it to the Final or not, you took a risk, put your business out there, learned from others, and kept building.
That deserves to be celebrated.
💫 What’s Next?
For Pari Biosciences Inc., the journey continues in Los Angeles at the TiE Women Regional Finals.
For all of our founders, this is just the beginning.
The connections made, lessons learned, and relationships built through this program will continue well beyond the Final.
To our founders: keep building, keep learning, and keep taking up space. The world needs what you’re building. 🚀
Congratulations to our 2026 TiE Women’s Program founders—and thank you to everyone who helped make this journey possible. 💜
