# Amasia

> Amasia is a VC fund in Burlingame backing Software and E-Commerce. See 100 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, United States
- Total investments: 100
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 23%
- Fund size: $200M
- Last fund: Jun 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amasia
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/amasiavc
- Website: https://www.amasia.vc

Amasia is a thesis-driven, global venture capital firm currently focused on sustainability and climate. Using a nuanced framework designed around behavior change, we invest in founders with global ambitions, from the Seed to Series B stages, across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America. We facilitate their growth withaccess to global markets, global best practices, and global knowledge.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $622k–$7.9M |
| Series A | $5M–$12M |
| Series B | $6.1M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 13 | 13% |
| FinTech | 8 | 8% |
| Education | 6 | 6% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 6% |

131 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 36 | 36% |
| Series A | 12 | 12% |
| Series B | 8 | 8% |
| Series C | 7 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 36 | 36% |
| Singapore | 8 | 8% |
| Indonesia | 4 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Kim | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-kim-2 |
| Ramanan Raghavendran | Managing Partner | 85 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ramanan-raghavendran |
| Alexandr Kurilin | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandr-kurilin |
| Jermayne Ong | Impact | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jermayne-ong |
| Kent Loi | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kent-loi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Topanga.io | Topanga.io develops a reuse platform for sustainably-minded brands, restaurants, and consumers. Its product suite and preferred partner network help businesses launch and grow reusable packaging programs. Its track and trace system captures key events for each reusable container. Users can track where reusable packaging goes and ensure they get itback. Topanga's code-free ReusePass program helps campuses offer effective reusable container programs. | $8M | Series A | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| EvolutionIQ | EvolutionIQ is an artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers. By reducing reserves and losses, cycle times, adverse events, lowering expenses, and increasing customer satisfaction, the company's platform improves claims processing, tracks team productivity, anddetects fraud trends, allowing clients to receive a fraud detection dashboard and making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable. | $20.2M | Series C | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Hive Health | Hive Health is a digital FinTech platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality healthcare coverage plans in the Philippines. | $6.5M | Seed | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| Poko | Poko enables seamless transfers from local payment rails to web3 infrastructure enabling web3 wallets, marketplaces, games and DApps to acquire more users. With Poko’s SDK, web3 builders can easily enable fiat-to-crypto onramping with 100+ common local payment methods or easily pay for NFTs with local payment methods. Poko's fiat-to-cryptoonramp aggregator reduces onramping costs by up to 70% and increases transaction success rates by up to 5x through a smart routing logic and a single integration to multiple onramps. It's Direct Checkout solution enables one step purchasing from fiat payment rails from any smart contract for 79% higher user conversion. The co-founders’ experience includes being chief strategy officer of a $2.4B coincap protocol, leading technical implementation of Singapore’s central bank’s experiment in cross-border payments on blockchain rails, policy experience as payments task force member at the World Economic Forum, ex-Ethereum Foundation Fellow, and CTO of a 2M+ user play to earn game. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Topanga.io | Topanga.io develops a reuse platform for sustainably-minded brands, restaurants, and consumers. Its product suite and preferred partner network help businesses launch and grow reusable packaging programs. Its track and trace system captures key events for each reusable container. Users can track where reusable packaging goes and ensure they get itback. Topanga's code-free ReusePass program helps campuses offer effective reusable container programs. | $3.6M | Seed | May 19, 2023 |  |
| Joro | Joro helps people track and offset their carbon footprints. |  | Seed | Dec 27, 2022 |  |
| Joro | Joro helps people track and offset their carbon footprints. | $10M | Series A | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Spren | Spren helps fitness and wellness brands deliver a more personalized, engaging, and effective user experience. It assists in avoiding the perplexity and frustration of false plateaus. Spren measures small changes in body composition using evidence-based machine learning algorithms, empowering the quest to slow aging. The company is using a patentedimaging technology—simply snap a full-body selfie on the smartphone and let Spren go to work. | $11.3M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Clarity Movement | Clarity Movement transforms how governments, communities, and businesses understand and respond to air pollution with IoT-based air quality monitoring technology. Our turn-key air quality monitoring solution supplements existing regulatory monitors with networks of hundreds to thousands of continuously-calibrated air quality sensors, making airquality management more accessible, cost-effective, and actionable than ever before. Founded in 2014, we have now deployed our next-generation, highly-accurate indicative air quality monitoring networks in more than 60 countries around the world — empowering our customers to build healthier communities with better data. | $9.6M | Series A | Jul 24, 2022 |  |
| Pique Action | Pique Action is a media company that uses stories on climate solutions to fight against climate change. The company creates short films about effective climate solutions. Pique Action's services include campaign development, messaging, creator discovery, social strategy, and ad copy. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 100 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [S32](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/section-32) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Amasia invest in?

Amasia invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 100 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Amasia's check size?

Amasia typically joins rounds of $622k–$7.9M at Seed, $5M–$12M at Series A and $6.1M–$65M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Amasia participates in.

### How do I contact Amasia?

Public channels for Amasia include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Amasia?

The team at Amasia includes John Kim (Managing Partner), Ramanan Raghavendran (Managing Partner) and Alexandr Kurilin (Venture Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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