May 2022: Xendit announces $300M Series D and other news

News from Clarity, Dialpad, Living Food, Skillshare, Unravel Carbon, and Xendit; our interview with Genevieve Guenther

This Month's Spotlight

Our research interviews help share digestible introductions to academic research about climate and behavior. These interviews have been thought-provoking for us and our audience. Three examples out of many:

• Katy Milkman helped us understand how behaviors and beliefs can form a catalyzing cycle, because when “you change behavior, you change your attitudes about the world to align with those behavior changes.”

• Juliet Schor showed us how those changes in individual beliefs and behaviors can ripple outwards to our communities, because “what feels adequate, what’s satisfying… is always in the context of others.”

• Daniel Aldana Cohen helped us consider how we might take a shared vision of prosperity and “reverse-engineer from that vision of the good life back towards political priorities and economic priorities and figure out how to get there.”

We hope you find these interviews as engaging as we do. If so, please like and subscribe to our Substack and our social media channels, where we put out new interviews regularly.

Portfolio News

• Los Angeles Unified School District partnered with Clarity to establish the United States' largest school-based air quality monitoring network.

• Three Dialpad team members were named to CRN Women of the Channel 2022.

• Living Food unveiled its ‘Learning Food’ campaign.

• Skillshare's CEO Matt Cooper is a finalist for EY's Entrepreneur Of The Year award.

• Unravel announced its US$7.38M (S$10 million) seed round fundraise, led by Sequoia India’s Surge.

• Xendit announced its $300 million Series D funding, led by Coatue and Insight Partners.

Amasia News

• Ramanan wrote a piece for e27 on the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied to the climate crisis.

• John made a music video about our portfolio company Clarity.

• Ramanan interviewed climate communication expert Genevieve Guenther.

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.