Atenean bags first runner-up at Stanford ASES Summit 2024

Katherine Grace O. Go (4 BS MGT) was selected as one of the global Top 33 student entrepreneurs to join the 26th Affiliated Stanford Entrepreneurial Society (ASES) Summit held at Stanford University, California last 30 March to 4 April with a scholarship grant. Her team’s culminating FinTech startup pitch was awarded First Runner-up by a panel of Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

The ASES Summit is an annual week-long immersive conference at Stanford University for student entrepreneurs. This year's delegates represented 17 countries, with students coming from Yale University, Columbia University, University of Sydney, Oxford University, University College London, IE Business School, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, among others.

With the theme “Beyond a Predicted Future,” this year’s edition included design thinking, pitching, and networking strategy workshops conducted by Stanford faculty and distinguished guests, including Michael Marks (Former CEO at Tesla), Mark Pincus (Founder at Zynga), and Richard Dasher (Director at Stanford US-Asia Technology Management Center).

The Summit culminated with a pitch competition before Silicon Valley investors Jacob Cole (Founder at Ideaflow), Cris Neckar (Partner at Two Bear Capital), and Charlotte Xia (Investor at Fusion Fund). Go’s team presented a Software as a Service (SaaS) startup for Southeast Asian cooperatives to have safe and accessible credit. Her team, comprising students from Monash University, Nagoya University, and Chulalongkorn University, were awarded First Runner-up of the competition.