Amasia is a thesis-driven, global venture capital firm that invests in companies fighting the climate crisis and building a safer, more sustainable planet. Founded in 2013 by Ramanan Raghavendran and John Kim, the firm backs founders with global ambitions, investing from the seed to Series B stages across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America.
The firm's investment thesis is distinctive: Amasia invests in early-stage software and software-enabled companies that catalyse changes in behaviour, to enhance sustainability and mitigate global climate impact. Its central belief is that changing human behaviour at the scale of "billions of people making trillions of decisions differently" will have the greatest positive impact on the environment.
That behaviour-change lens organises the firm's five sector themes: AI and data for sustainability, the circular economy, sustainable cities, sustainable supply chains, and the clean energy transition. Rather than chasing sectors as labels, Amasia targets the behavioural shifts behind them — reducing and regenerating, reusing and recycling, replacing bricks with bytes, and rationalising resources. The firm typically enters at the seed or Series A stage, leads or co-leads its rounds, and makes a deliberately limited number of investments each year so it can fully support each company.
The portfolio spans nearly 50 companies around the globe. Climate and sustainability examples include Clarity, the air-quality sensing and data platform — Amasia co-led its US$9.6 million Series A+ alongside the Active Fund to scale localised, real-time air monitoring across hundreds of cities in more than 60 countries — and Joro (now Commons), the consumer app Amasia itself calls the single company that best encapsulates its thesis. Other names in the portfolio include the used-electronics marketplace Swappa, the food-waste platform TreeDots, e-commerce logistics company Super (formerly Nusantara), remote-work platform Dialpad, online financial institution Wealthfront and remote-learning platform Skillshare.
Leadership rests with managing partners Ramanan Raghavendran and John Kim. Amasia works closely with founders to facilitate growth, offering access to global markets, global best practices and global knowledge. The firm's fund size is not publicly disclosed, and it does not publicly advertise any founder programmes, credits or perks.
Why it matters for founders
If you are building software that nudges people or businesses towards lower-carbon, less wasteful behaviour, Amasia is set up to speak your language. Its partners frame diligence around behaviour change rather than sector checkboxes, and they bring a global network across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America to help portfolio companies expand internationally.