Articles about Aravind Bala

Seattle-area young entrepreneurs capture third-straight win in global TiE startup pitch contest

A team of Seattle-area high school students won the 2026 TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Global Pitch Competition earlier this month, notching a three-peat for the TYE Seattle chapter. Read More

Students pitch startups in regional TiE Young Entrepreneurs finals, vying to three-peat in global contest

This year’s Seattle-area cohort included students across 20 teams, pitching ventures in industries including artificial intelligence, children’s nutrition, ocean plastic recycling, mental health and healthcare. Read More

SeekOut’s Anoop Gupta steps down as CEO, hands reins of AI recruiting company to tech vet Sean Thompson

Anoop Gupta is stepping down as CEO of SeekOut, the Bellevue-based recruiting startup he co-founded in 2017, handing the reins to enterprise software veteran Sean Thompson. Co-founder Aravind Bala will remain as CTO. Read More

Working Geek: Why Aravind Bala left a lead engineer role at Microsoft to launch Nextio

Aravind Bala had been at Microsoft for nearly 15 years when he met Anoop Gupta, his manager on the Office… Read More

Hit reply to get paid: Microsoft vets take on LinkedIn with novel ‘Nextio’ messaging service

A new professional messaging service called Nextio aims to challenge a key feature of LinkedIn by turning the economic model on… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec’s startup Telo lands $2.2M in quest to shake up the online messaging industry

Telo, a messaging startup led by former Microsoft executive and distinguished scientist Anoop Gupta, has raised $2.2 million in funding in its pursuit… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec Anoop Gupta’s new startup is rethinking messaging by empowering recipients

Social networks commonly charge companies and marketers a premium to deliver targeted messages and ads — a classic example of the modern online economy, in… Read More