From STRIVE to Silicon Valley: Starship Co-Founder’s EPIC Journey

Azat Harutyunyan is the co-founder of Starship, a platform designed to help students secure financing and financial aid to help pay for university tuition upon acceptance into a foreign university. He created the Starship startup during the EPIC Jam two-day ideathon, in which he took part after successfully completing the STRIVE program. Azat is a computer science student at AUA and one of the participants selected for the EPIC/HIVE Silicon Valley ten-day industry tour in the summer of 2023.