Ramanan Raghavendran is a venture capital investor at Amasia who runs his own podcast and Substack called "In Our Hands" where he interviews academics and practitioners about climate and sustainability topics, positioning himself as both an investor and public explainer of climate transitions. He also co-hosts climate storytelling podcasts where he explores how narrative can help people emotionally process climate change, reflecting an unusual focus on culture and psychology as tools for climate action beyond typical venture approaches.
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Amasia is a venture capital fund built around the thesis that "behavior change at scale" is the most important lever for fighting climate change, organizing investments into five behavior-focused themes rather than standard climate sectors, and focusing exclusively on software or software-enabled companies that drive digitally mediated behavior and systems change. The fund has co-developed a highly structured impact assessment framework specifically for early-stage venture while publicly positioning itself as contrarian to mainstream ESG practices, criticizing them as "box-checking exercises" and instead focusing on lean, company-beneficial measurement that avoids burdening early-stage teams.
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