Aravind Bala
Aravind Bala is CEO at SeekOut and also serves as an Instructor at TiE Seattle. He founded SeekOut in 2017, which is still running, and previously held several engineering leadership roles at Microsoft.
Startup Spotlight: Aravind Bala, CTO, SeekOut.com - How to successfully pivot your company
In this episode, we feature Aravind Bala, who is the CTO and co-founder of Seekout. SeekOut (https://seekout.io) empowers companies to go beyond LinkedIn in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent. Prior to SeekOut, Aravind spent 14 years at Microsoft as a Partner Engineering Manager. In this episode, Aravind shares the following: * *From Big Tech to startup leap:* Aravind Bala shares why he left a 14-year Microsoft career to build a company “for real,” guided by Jeff Bezos’ regret minimization mindset—and the importance of finding the right co-founder (Anoop Gupta). * *The first idea (and why it didn’t stick):* The team’s…
Organizations
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SeekOut CEO 2026–present, CTO & Co-Founder 2017–2026 · current
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TiE Seattle Instructor 2023–present · current
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Nextio Co-Founder & CTO 2015–2017 · past
Education
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The Ohio State University Master’s Degree, Computer Science · 1997–1999
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Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering · 1993–1997
