Ascend, winner of the Impact NA20 2025!
Ascend is the winner of the Impact NA20 2025 award from French Tech Bordeaux, alongside companies that are shaping sustainable transformation in New Aquitaine. This distinction highlights our vision: corporate sustainability must be managed with reliable tools, adapted to the realities of territories and capable of helping organizations strengthen their performance and resilience in a rapidly changing environment.
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Ascend was awarded the NA20 Impact Prize during the 2025 edition led by French Tech Bordeaux. A distinction that honors nineteen start-ups with impact in the region.
For our team, it is an immense source of pride. But above all, it is a strong signal sent to companies and territories that are now looking for reliable solutions to manage their sustainability.
Why this recognition matters to us
This award confirms a conviction that we have held since day one. Businesses need sovereign, reliable tools rooted in their local realities to regain control of their extra-financial data, better exploit them and speak a common language with their partners, funders and territories.
It also validates a key intuition: resilient companies will be those that have been able to develop their robustness in an unstable and complex environment. Controlling its impacts, risks and opportunities throughout the value chain is the foundation of sustainable performance.
; Harnest;: a platform born from the needs of businesses
Harnest is at the heart of this transformation. Our ESG management and reporting platform allows organizations to structure their extra-financial data, to manage their CSR action plans and their ESG performance and to anticipate regulatory, territorial and geopolitical developments that are accelerating.
Our ambition is simple: to make companies more robust, more readable for their partners and more resilient in the face of ongoing transformations.
With Harnest, we want to support organizations to meet these challenges with tools that are reliable, usable and usable on a daily basis. Tools, like VSME+, which create a real common language between economic, public and financial actors.
Thanks to all the Ascend teams, whose daily commitment makes possible what we are building: a European model of sustainability rooted in reality.
And see you in 2026 for the rest of the adventure!