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#Media
The Big Read
The region's best startups speak every language but English
Central Eurasian venture funding hit a record $320 million in 2025. The opportunity is not the money — it is that almost no one is telling the story to the people who could fund its next chapter.
The Big Read
Translation as moat
Turning Russian, Kazakh and Uzbek ecosystem news into polished English narrative is the one advantage that compounds.
Founders
A founder, a Telegram channel, a $4m seed
Distribution before product is a tired startup adage. In Almaty it is now a fundable thesis.
Films
A short documentary on Yerevan's silent decade
Twelve minutes inside the slow institutional build that produced the region's most-internationalised founders.
Films
How a tiny Almaty studio became regional television
Production economics in the corridor look very different when YouTube and Telegram are your distribution.