Interview with Magzhan Madiyev, CEO of Astana Hub

Following your participation as a country partner at the Doers Summit in Limassol, how would you characterise the current appetite among European investors and entrepreneurs for engagement with the Central Asian tech ecosystem?

The appetite is real and it is growing. In Limassol, people were asking specific questions: about registration timelines, about tax structures, about what it actually takes to operate from Kazakhstan. That is a different quality of interest than we saw even two years...