# Ramanan Raghavendran

> Ramanan Raghavendran is a seed investor at Amasia (San Francisco) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 85 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 85
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramananraghavendran
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rrword
- Website: http://www.ramanan.com/

Ramanan Raghavendran is a seed investor at Amasia in San Francisco focused on Software and E-Commerce. Ramanan is the managing partner and co-founder of Amasia, a thesis-driven, global venture capital firm currently focused on sustainability and climate. He began his career at General Atlantic, was an early partner at Insight Partners, went on to co-manage TH Lee Putnam Ventures and then co-founded Kubera Partners. He serves as a Trustee of theUniversity of Pennsylvania; on the Board of Advisors of the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn; as Chair of the Governing Council of Penn’s Institute for the Advanced Study of India; and as the Global Coordinator of the Penn Alumni Interview Program. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University. He has been the seed funder and board member of several NGOs over the years and remains closely associated with Magic Bus, an NGO that works with 500,000 at-risk children in South Asia.He has a B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, a B.S. in Economics, and a Master of Liberal Arts, all from Penn; and is enrolled in the Master of Liberal Arts program at Stanford.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 11 | 13% |
| FinTech | 7 | 8% |
| Education | 6 | 7% |
| SaaS | 5 | 6% |

116 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 36% |
| Series A | 12 | 14% |
| Series B | 8 | 9% |
| Series C | 6 | 7% |
| Series D | 5 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 36% |
| Singapore | 5 | 6% |
| Indonesia | 4 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Super | Super is the first Indonesian consumer technology company backed by Y Combinator, which oversees the main feature, Superagen. Superagen is agent-led commerce group buying that enables community leaders to become retailers within their communities.We use technology to: 1) Empower community leaders to become self-made entrepreneurs by enabling themto sell various products to their communities2) Build a logistics network with the lowest cost3) Facilitate communication for social-buying behavior so our agents can sell various products through social networks like WhatsApp | $70M | Series C | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Xendit | Xendit is a Southeast Asian fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across Indonesia and the Philippines. Xendit processes payments, runs marketplaces, disburses payroll and loans, detects fraud, and helps other businesses grow exponentially. They serve these companies by providing a suite of world-class APIs and a dashboard UI thatsimplifies processes.Xendit was founded by Moses Lo, Tessa Wijaya, Bo Chen and Juan Gonzalez. | $300M | Series D | May 19, 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. |  | Series A | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| ClimateTrade | ClimateTrade is a blockchain-based carbon credits trading platform. Their vision is to be the most disruptive and exponential fintech company in the environmental sector to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on the client. They have built an ecosystem where companies and consumers can easily offset theircarbon footprint and also access to other climate related products. Their API is the first Carbon API created in the world and allows companies to offer products and services carbon neutral and be certified in blockchain. | $7.9M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Finch | Finch decodes products' environmental impacts to help consumers and businesses make better decisions |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 85 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 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
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Amasia

VC Fund · Burlingame, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Amasia.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Ramanan Raghavendran invest in?

Ramanan Raghavendran invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 85 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ramanan Raghavendran last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ramanan Raghavendran closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 85 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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