ASCENT

ASCENT is the go-to peer learning community for over 1000 entrepreneurs across India actively participating in India’s growth story for the last 11 years. A vision of Harsh Mariwala (Chairman, Marico Ltd.) and his passion to identify high-potential, growth-ready entrepreneurs and enable them to grow their enterprises thereby impacting their entrepreneurial journey in scaling up. Designed as a peer-to-peer platform, ASCENT leverages the “power of the collective” and enables entrepreneurs to share experiences, ideas, insights to learn from each other through self-facilitated Trust Groups and an extended network of Enablers. Since 2012, ASCENT is a cohort of over 1000 entrepreneurs who are part of 80+ operational Trust Groups. The composition of these members is quite diverse with a 46:54 split between Manufacturing and Services Industries; 44% Family Businesses; and in all about 65+ diverse industries represented. The aggregate annual revenue of the ASCENT members is more than Rs. 85,000 crores with individual member turnover ranging from Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 3900+ crores.