Tia Irvine

Innovation Architect, Cisco Hyper Innovation Living Labs

San Francisco

Tia has supported innovation efforts at organizations as small as two startup founders with just an idea and as large as multinational Fortune 100 corporations seeking to overhaul their legacy businesses. As the Director of Strategic Partnerships at two of the Bay Area’s top technology incubators, Tia has evaluated hundreds of startups on behalf of the organizations she’s led and the corporations they serve, and advised dozens on all aspects of their businesses, from building a team to defining business models and go-to-market strategies. During the tenure of her involvement, these startups had cumulatively raised over $180 million; six were acquired. Prior to her work with startups, Tia’s career was broadly focused on reducing the impact of the built environment through green building and sustainable land use, with an emphasis on water reclamation and renewable energy technologies.