A community that lets you fail.
50+ people from our Build with ASES initiative, all starting from scratch. And the ASES community is here to make sure your ambition is backed with action.
@itsrevoltph | Expanding the Electric Vehicle (EV) charging network all around the world.
An autonomous medical delivery drone designed to reach communities that roads and doctors cannot.
Split the bill without the group chat math!
The sales and inventory platform for cooperatives and small Filipino businesses with fragmented records.
An analyst that lives inside your company that gets smarter every week, and is accessible to your whole team.
Virtual assistance and consultancy in real estate and construction.
Make the clothes you want. Experience the luxury of custom-made clothing.
A cross-university community of student founders and makers who share unfinished work, exchange honest feedback, and come back with a stronger version.
Twice a month, we fill a room with people sharper than you and hand you the mic. That's the whole event.
Build with ASES has its own sign-up. You're applying for a seat in the room, not applying to join ASES, so there's no overlap and no confusion: this is a standing event, not a club application. Show up, present, and let the room tell you what to fix next.
One night we go hunting for real problems worth solving. The other, you stand up and show what you actually built. Sometimes there's a theme, sometimes a weird constraint, but the follow-through is never optional.
Free if you're an ASES member, a small door fee if you're not, but either way you get the same seat and the same brutally useful feedback. Nobody checks your resume at the door.
Every idea that gets picked apart in this room walks out a little less bad. We built BWA because most people hide their rough drafts. We'd rather cheer for them.
Beyond the twice-a-month grind, two flagship events take builders further from home turf.
We haul the whole setup to campuses across Manila so you don't have to find us. Same honest feedback, closer to your dorm.
Three weeks to prove you're not just talk. Pick a real Philippine problem, build something for it, then pitch to investors flying in from Manila and Silicon Valley. Win, and the funding is real too.
is the Manila chapter of the Stanford ASES student entrepreneurship network. We're undergraduates from universities across the Philippines, building together.
FAQ
The Manila chapter of the Affiliated Stanford Entrepreneurial Society, a student startup crowd from across the city's universities. We build things. We don't just talk about building things, which turns out to be the rarer skill.
None of them, and that's kind of the point. We're a chapter of Stanford's global network, so our people come from Ateneo, DLSU, UST, UP, Mapúa, PUP, FEU, and a bunch of schools that would otherwise never share a room.
Nope. We're not checking your GitHub at the door. The only question that matters is: are you building something, or do you want to start? Everything else you figure out here.
Yes, any university student in the Philippines is welcome. Just a heads-up: the events themselves happen in Metro Manila, so you'll need to make the trip.
Yes, a one-time membership fee. New members from public universities pay ₱250, new members from private universities pay ₱350, and returning members pay ₱250 to renew. It funds the events you will be showing up to. Payment details, including the GCash QR, are on the application page.
You'll pitch. Build with ASES runs twice a month and the whole point is putting your work in front of people who'll tell you the truth. Then there's Bootcamp: three weeks, a real problem, and a pitch to investors from Manila and Silicon Valley. Win that one and the funding is real money, not a certificate.
A fair few. Members and alumni have launched startups, closed VC funding, and landed roles at companies you've heard of. Some are still grinding on their thing. A few of them are now the ones giving feedback in the room, which is either full circle or slightly terrifying depending on how your last pitch went.
Facebook or Instagram, both @asesmanila, or email asesmanila.team@gmail.com. A real person answers, not a bot.
