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    For Scale-ups

    Impact reporting that keeps pace with your growth

    From Series A to the next round: impact indicators, ESG data and reporting that satisfy investors, customers and due diligence, without rebuilding everything every year.

    Organisations we work with

    • Willicroft
    • Bright Kitchen
    • Wakuli
    • Max & Bien
    • Sababa
    • Grassa
    • Proeon
    • Sheartex by DST
    • LÄCKER
    • AmperaPark
    • This Side Up
    • Raddis Cotton

    We met some of them through Impact Hub Amsterdam’s Food Chain Accelerator, ABN AMRO’s Impact Nation, Impact Hub Amsterdam’s Regeneration Program and Impact Hub Amsterdam’s Investment Ready Program.

    What you get

    • Impact data investors can use

      Impact and ESG reporting that fits what your investors need for their own reporting, including SFDR

    • Due diligence without panic

      Your impact case, data and evidence in order before the next funding round or sale

    • A system that scales

      Clear definitions and processes that still work with more countries, teams and products

    • Credibility with enterprise customers

      Answers to supplier questionnaires and sustainability requirements from large customers

    • Mission in a growing team

      Impact goals new people meet in their first week and see again in their team targets

    Two people at work by a window
    Photo: jason song via Unsplash

    Why we do what we do

    Read the film as text
    1. We all want to know
    2. our place in the world.
    3. Thin grey lines join dots into a web.
    4. We like to believe that what we do is part of something larger.
    5. It is.
    6. Together we make our surroundings, our brands, our communities.
    7. We shape the work of others, as they shape ours.
    8. The web grows dense.
    9. We live in one web of cause and consequence.
    10. Each path tells a story, part of a larger narrative.
    11. A system of meaning.
    12. So what is our impact?
    13. Whose lives do we touch?
    14. What changed? For whom? How much? And what part was ours?
    15. Intended or not, for better or worse.
    16. Knowing that changes what you do next.
    17. A dark line draws a path through the web. Impact management helps you see it, steer it, and use it.
    18. A large word: Lead. A purple path runs through the web. Lead with purpose, and fund your mission.
    19. A large word: Improve. A green path runs through the web. Learn what doesn’t work and design for better.
    20. A large word: Engage. A blue-green path runs through the web. Share your story, and bring others into it.
    21. A large word: Account. A blue path runs through the web. State your claim, and prove it.
    22. A large word: Discover. A yellow path runs through the web. Find your next impact before it happens.
    23. “How do you measure impact?”
    24. It sounds hard.
    25. It isn’t.
    26. It’s not about the how.
    27. It’s about
    28. Portraits of people fill the screen.
    29. A large word: Who.
    30. About rights-holders, whose lives are touched.
    31. And stakeholders, whose choices shape them.
    32. The people stand side by side, at the same height. A wave of colour runs through the web. Every voice, every perspective, equally weighed.
    33. The web turns many colours. Pluriform and equivalent.
    34. Who determines what.
    35. And what determines how.
    36. That’s it. No more, no less.
    37. We count what can be counted, and listen to the rest.
    38. Coloured paths wind across the web. We find the stories that connect the dots, and make sense of the whole.
    39. We love our craft:
    40. to ask the questions,
    41. to measure what matters,
    42. and narrate what works.
    43. One dark path remains. Let’s reveal your path.
    44. The word narrate, with the line: impact in numbers and stories.

    What we often hear

    • “Our impact framework from the early days no longer works now that we’re in more countries.”

      We redesign your impact measurement with core indicators everyone uses and room for local context

    • “Investors want ESG and impact data for the new round, and we’re not ready.”

      We help you put together an impact case and data set that withstands due diligence, aligned with the frameworks your investors use

    • “We hire so fast that new colleagues barely know what impact we’re after.”

      We help you build impact goals into onboarding, OKRs and team rhythms, so the mission stays tangible

    • “Enterprise customers send supplier questionnaires and ask for CSRD data we haven’t pulled together.”

      We help you build one consistent set of answers and data you can reuse for questionnaires, the VSME and, if it suits you, B Corp

    • “Our impact reporting takes a lot of work, but says little about what we really achieve.”

      We help you focus your reporting on the outcomes that matter most, so management and the board can use it to steer the business

    What you may be wondering

    • Do we have to rebuild everything?

      No. We first look at what you already measure and who uses it. Most of it is often already there.

    • Does the CSRD apply to us now?

      Since the Omnibus, probably not. Customers and investors do ask for it. We build one set of data you reuse for both.

    • Will this give us more than a report?

      That’s the point. You get indicators the leadership team and board steer by, not just a document.

    Start with an overview of who asks for what

    We map who needs which impact information, and when: investors, customers, board and teams. You see what’s there, where the gaps are and what comes first.

    Explore how we could work together

    The collaboration explorer is already set up for scale-ups. Answer a few short questions and see which forms of collaboration fit, with a rough price level.

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    Your organisation

    A few facts about who you are and where you work.

    Your organisation:Scale-ups

    How large is your organisation?
    Where does your work take place?

    A funding round or due diligence coming up?

    Book a call and we’ll look at what your impact reporting needs.