January 2024: Commons' new program pays you to reduce pollution tied to purchases.
Also: news from Focusmate, Scrimba, Topanga, and Unvravel Carbon; a new blog post, and two new podcast episodes!
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Portfolio News
Climate app Commons announced a new program that pays you for reducing pollution tied to purchases.
In 2023, people across 150+ countries used Focusmate for over 100 million minutes to get stuff done.
Topanga released its greatest hits with its 2023 Impact Report over the past year.
Unravel Carbon announced its new Partner Ecosystem that will match client needs with the expertise of subject matter experts.
Amasia News
Amasia released its year-end 2023 review; a compilation of the greatest hits version of the monthly newsletter.
Listen to the first Futureverse episode of 2024 with American novelist and essayist, Nathaniel Rich. We chat with Rich about the complexities of climate activism, political challenges, and literary reflections on the environmental crisis and dive into his works of fiction and nonfiction.
We released a new episode of In Our Hands with Akshat Rathi, author, and London-based senior reporter for Bloomberg News and our first climate journalist. We dive into the intersection of capitalism and the climate crisis and explore the evolving social responsibility of corporations and the vital role of media representation.
Ramanan was named chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
What We’re Writing
We wrapped up our blog series on Amasia's investment framework with an essay on how we get to sectors, which are the "unit" of VC. In this post, we dive deeper and explain how we apply this framework to specific sectors, and subsequently, companies.
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.