# TiE Angels

> TiE Angels is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 86 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 86
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/tiesv
- Website: http://www.tieangels.com

TiE Angels is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Software and Enterprise Software. TiE Angels was launched in July 2010. It is an angel investment group formed by Charter Members of TiE Silicon Valley. The mission of TiE Angels is to support top-tier emerging companies with early stage investment and support. Since founding TiE Angels in Silicon Valley, the forum has been launched at TiE chapters in other cities includingBoston, New York City, Seattle, Portland, and Atlanta.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for TiE Angels. Shizune tracks 4 team members at TiE Angels. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/tie-angels?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$3.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$1.9M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 23 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 12 | 14% |
| SaaS | 11 | 13% |
| Health Care | 9 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 10% |

132 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 46 | 53% |
| Series A | 12 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 7% |
| Angel | 3 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 65 | 76% |
| India | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deepak Sindwani | Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-sindwani |
| Kiran Rao | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiran-rao-3 |
| Satish Tadikonda | Active Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satish-tadikonda |
| Steve Dahill | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-dahill |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cheerio AI | Cheerio AI provides agentic AI solutions tailored for enterprise revenue expansion and automated customer interactions. It offers no-code workflow tools spanning various channels, powered by 300+ AI models and more than 8,000 integrations. | $873.4K | Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Clean Fanatics | Clean Fanatic is the leading name in Household cleaning services in Bangalore and one of the Cleaning Services pioneers in India. They specialize in Sofa cleaning, Carpet cleaning, Upholstery cleaning, Mattress cleaning, , and various other housekeeping services in Bangalore. | $2M | Seed | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Surgicure Technologies | Surgicure is a biotechnology start-up company that is dedicated to building effective medical instruments to prevent unnecessary harm while promoting safety and efficiency for both its patients and practitioners during surgical procedures and healing processes. Its product secures medical tubes intubated within a patient's mouth while relyingon the patient's oral cavity.Founded in 2018 by Irena Volkov, Surgicure Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Glidance | Glidance develops a self-driving mobility aid for people with sight loss. It leverages advancements in robotics, AI, and autonomous systems to guide people with sight loss where they want to go. With the aid of its advanced technology, users may navigate through crowds of people and around objects with ease and safety, getting to a door, stairwell,or park seat in the area. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| PredictionStrike | PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares. | $10M | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| Deep Cognition | Deepcognition.ai provides industries first deep learning platform to design, train and deploy deep learning models with cloud or local GPUs. Models can be designed without needing to do any programming. | $1.3M | Convertible Note | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| Optiwise | Optiwise is a platform for marketplace optimization based in California. |  | Seed | May 09, 2023 |  |
| Lidrotec | Lidrotec aim to expand the application potential of processing with ultra-short pulse lasers. | $5.3M | Series A | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| Optiwise | Optiwise is a platform for marketplace optimization based in California. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Monetize360 | We’re proud to be the company bringing the best-in-class, no-code pricing and billing solution to market. Our customers are able to automate routine financial processes and quickly monetize their products and services, in even the most complex scenarios. No pricey custom development, no arduous onboarding required. |  | Seed | May 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 86 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elevate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [LaunchPad Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchpad-venture-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [GOOSE Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goose-society-of-texas) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Fabric](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-fabric) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [37 Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/37-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does TiE Angels invest in?

TiE Angels invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TiE Angels's check size?

TiE Angels typically joins rounds of $700k–$3.5M at Seed, $1M–$1.9M at Pre-Seed and $1.5M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds TiE Angels participates in.

### How do I contact TiE Angels?

Public channels for TiE Angels include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at TiE Angels?

The team at TiE Angels includes Deepak Sindwani (Partner), Kiran Rao (Partner) and Satish Tadikonda (Active Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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