Co-founder & Publisher
Leslie Hitchcock

Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief
Dr Tobias Stone

Managing Editor
Ingrid Lunden

Ingrid is an editor and writer. Born in Moscow, brought up in the U.S. and now based out of London, from February 2012 to May 2025, she worked at leading technology publication TechCrunch, initially as a writer and eventually as one of TechCrunch’s managing editors, leading the company’s international editorial operation and working as part of TechCrunch’s senior leadership team. She speaks Russian, French and Spanish and takes a keen interest in the intersection of technology with geopolitics.

Editors-at-Large

John Biggs

John Biggs is an entrepreneur, consultant, writer, and maker. He spent fifteen years as an editor for Gizmodo, CrunchGear, and TechCrunch and has a deep background in hardware startups, 3D printing, and blockchain. His work has also appeared in Men’s Health, Wired, and the New York Times.

He has written nine books including the best book on blogging, Bloggers Boot Camp, and a book about the most expensive timepiece ever made, Marie Antoinette’s Watch. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He runs the Keep Going podcast, a podcast about failure. His goal is to share how even the most confident and successful people had to face adversity.

Natasha Lomas

Natasha Lomas is a freelance journalist and editor who has been reporting on the tech industry for the best part of two decades. Based in Europe, she was most recently senior reporter on staff at TechCrunch. She has also freelanced for the New European (aka the New World), Digital Frontier, the Guardian, and the BBC. Her journalism includes coverage of startups, tech policy, consumer gadgets, and a range of socially impactful issues. Currently she is also Tech Editor for the Brussels-based media network, Euractiv, where she manages a team of tech policy reporters.

Jonathan Shieber

Jon Shieber covers the intersection of climate, technology, and resilience. He currently works as a Senior Strategist for the communications firm LaunchSquad and previously worked as a Venture Partner at Robert Downey Jr.’s climate-focused venture fund, FootPrint Coalition, and spent 18 years as an editor and reporter for TechCrunch, Dow Jones, and The Wall Street Journal.

Contributors

Fiona Alston

Fiona Alston is a defence tech, innovation and business journalist based in Estonia. With over a decade of experience covering tech, business and sustainability for Irish and European publications, she has a knack for bringing interesting and technical stories to an everyday audience.

Julia Gifford

Julia Gifford is a Canadian-Latvian writer and communicator, a tech advocate who gets excited about telling the world about Europe’s tech excellence and impactful initiatives from the region. She has recently published her first book, Treasures of Latvia, and has previously written for Tech.eu, Labs of Latvia, and more.

Carly Page

Carly Page is a freelance technology journalist with over a decade of experience covering the intersection of tech and security. She previously worked as a senior cybersecurity reporter at TechCrunch, focusing on ransomware campaigns, data breaches, zero-day exploits, and government cyber policy. She also writes for IT Pro, LeadDev, The Telegraph, WIRED and more.

Paul Sawers

Paul is an experienced technology journalist covering some of the biggest stories from Europe and beyond since 2011 — most recently at TechCrunch.

Initially focused on consumer stories around the European startup ecosystem, Paul later segued into enterprise, infrastructure, and AI, with a particular interest in open source. In January, 2025, he launched Forkable, a newsletter all about open source.