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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 the editor, Jon Russell

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

I combine the newsletter with a consulting company called Fully Drafted, which helps tech companies develop narrative, strategy and marketing for the modern era. But in previous lives I was a full-time journalist and a crypto investor.

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.