August 2023: Dialpad Listed #25 on Forbes' 2023 Cloud 100 List
Also: news from Clarity, Commons, Go1, Inbenta and Topanga; No Hair Shirts Required; a new Futureverse episode, and THREE re-releases from In Our Hands!
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Portfolio News
Clarity and Breathe London pioneered a new model for clean air.
Commons was included in this year's Norrsken Impact100.
Dialpad launched DialpadGPT, a new bespoke LLM that’s purpose-built for business conversations.
Dialpad was listed as #25 on Forbes’ 2023 Cloud 100 list.
Go1 partnered with Litmos to offer 80,000+ top-notch training courses.
Inbenta announced an extensive generative AI integration.
Topanga's #ReusePass reusable packaging program was adopted by over 20 campuses across the US.
Amasia News
Ramanan published another chapter summary from his book, In Our Hands.
We launched Part 1 of a new Futureverse episode with Kim Stanley Robinson.
We re-released Kevin Ummel’s episode of In Our Hands.
Robert Frank’s episode from In Our Hands was re-released.
We re-released the In Our Hands episode with Gernot Wagner.
What We’re Reading
In preparation for our next Futureverse interview, we read Janice Pariat's Everything the Light Touches. Keep an eye out for the episode in October!
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.