Aspire Impact

Know what Aspire Impact is before you approach it

Aspire Impact is an impact rating, certification and assessment firm, not a startup incubator or accelerator. If you are a founder looking for incubation or funding, this is not an intake programme you apply to.

If you want an impact assessment

Its main service, the 4P Impact Assessment, is something an organisation engages Aspire to carry out, rather than an open call with deadlines. The relevant audiences are corporates, non-profits and CSR teams, financial-services firms and education bodies that want to measure their social and environmental impact. The route in is to contact Aspire through the enquiry channels on its site.

If you run an incubator or accelerator

Aspire's startup-ecosystem work supports incubator and accelerator organisations rather than individual startups, connecting them to Impact Hub's global network for mentoring and training. Note that this initiative dates to 2020 and its page has not been updated since, so confirm it is still active before relying on it.

A note on the Aspire group

Searches for "Aspire Circle" or the Aspire Circle Fellowship point to a separate body, the Aspire Circle charitable trust, which runs the group's fellowships, scholarships and internships on its own site. Leadership training sits with a third arm, Aspire Education. Check which part of Aspire you actually need before getting in touch.

Aspire Impact describes itself as a social enterprise focused on leadership and ecosystem development in social and environmental impact, under the tagline "Measure The Good". Its registered name is Aspire Impact Ratings Pvt Ltd, a for-profit private limited company. It is the impact rating and certification arm of Aspire, a group founded by Amit Bhatia and established in 2007, based in Gurgaon, Haryana.

What it is

Aspire sits across three initiatives, each a distinct body. Aspire Impact handles impact rating and certification. Aspire Circle, a charitable trust, runs fellowships, scholarships and internships. Aspire Education provides leadership training. The work this page covers is Aspire Impact's own: measuring and certifying social and environmental impact, rather than running an incubator or accelerator for founders. On its own pages it presents as an assessment and certification firm, not as a programme that takes in startup cohorts.

What it does

Aspire Impact's main offering is a proprietary impact assessment it calls 4P, after the four lenses it measures against: Product, People, Planet, and Policy and Governance. It is aimed at corporations and organisations that want to measure and value their social and environmental impact, with editions described for corporates, non-profits and CSR, financial services and education. It is a service an organisation engages Aspire to deliver rather than an application-based programme, and Aspire describes completing a company's assessment over three to four months and producing both an internal report and an external one.

Aspire Impact has also run an ecosystem-support initiative aimed at India's startup support organisations. Under it, Aspire brings Impact Hub's global network to India to provide mentoring, training and support to incubators and accelerators in India. The beneficiaries here are incubator and accelerator organisations, not individual founders, and the initiative dates to a 2020 effort that has not been refreshed since.

Who runs it

Aspire was founded by Amit Bhatia and established in 2007. Aspire Impact is one of its three arms. The 2007 date is for Aspire overall; the site does not give a separate incorporation year for Aspire Impact Ratings Pvt Ltd as a named company.

Where it is

Aspire Impact's corporate office is in Sector 23, Gurgaon, Haryana. Its registered office is in Saidullajab, near Saket Metro Station, in New Delhi.