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Welcome to Asia Tech Review, the newsletter for keeping up with the tech industry across Asia.

ATR started in February 2014 as a way to force myself to keep up with news. Today, it is read by a global audience of startup founders, tech VCs, operators at major tech firms, journalists and more.

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Meet Jon

Hello, I’m Jon Russell, a former Asia tech reporter who writes Asia Tech Review.

I spent 10 years as a technology reporter and editor specialising in Southeast Asia for media outlets that included The Next Web, TechCrunch and The Ken. During that time, I got to know founders and investors through a front seat as tech, the internet and startups became mainstream.

I left the media industry to join Crypto.com’s venture capital fund as a partner in 2022, where I was involved in more than a dozen investments across Asia, Europe and the US. I then spent two years working with Singapore-based fund GSG.

You can contact me via email: jon@asiatechreview.com.

Disclaimer

I write Asia Tech Review to keep up with developments across Asia’s technology industry, and because I still love to write. Separately, I have been Executive Director at Ellerton & Co, an Asia-focused PR and communications firm, since September 2026.

Asia Tech Review is independently owned and editorially operated. All editorial decisions are made by Sai Narayan and me. Ellerton does not commission, review or approve ATR’s editorial content.

If ATR covers a current Ellerton client, that relationship will be disclosed clearly. Ellerton clients receive no preferential coverage, placement or access.