April 2022: Meet our newest fellows
News from GoTo, Joro, Ripio, Skillshare, Unravel Carbon, and Xendit; John's interview with e27
This Month's Spotlight
This month, we concluded the Spring 2022 cohort of our Amasia Fellows program, our flagship research and writing program for undergraduates. Formalized in 2019, the program now has 23 alumni from nine universities. This semester’s fellows were Emily Wang and Nora Shiho Burke from Columbia and Caroline Culmo from Penn.
The fellows co-wrote shortform and longform pieces, helped prep Ramanan’s book, In Our Hands, for launch this spring, and did background research for our interview series. The first of the longform pieces, on war and the environment, can be read on the Amasia blog.
Portfolio News
GoTo was listed on Indonesian Stock Exchange.
GoTo and Joro were named to TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022.
Ripio announced its expansion into Colombia.
Skillshare was listed on a16z + Future's Marketplace 100 list.
Grace Sai from Unravel Carbon was featured on Tech in Asia's Women in Power List.
Xendit was featured in Bloomberg News.
Amasia News
Ramanan wrote about peer group envy on his blog.
John was interviewed for e27 on Southeast Asia's climate tech pipeline.
Ramanan interviewed Tim Lenton on climate tipping points and geoengineering.
Useful links:
The Amasia website for an overview of our firm, our team, and our portfolio.
The Amasia blog for essays on the VC business, our portfolio, and our impact.
The In Our Hands podcast with theorists and practitioners in climate science and behavior change (with full transcripts if you prefer text).
The Futureverse podcast with authors of climate-related fiction (with full transcripts if you prefer text).
Ramanan’s blog for personal essays.