Story tips

Pitch the desk

The best stories start as a tip from someone close to them. Here is how to send yours — and how to make it count.

How to reach us

Email ops@technopolis.news. Put “Tip:” and the company or subject in the subject line — “Tip: Kavak layoffs” gets opened faster than “Quick question.”

If your material is confidential, embargoed, or off the record, say so in the first line. We honor embargoes and off-the-record markers, and we do not burn sources.

What makes a good tip

We cover developments, not aspirations. The tips that become stories share a shape:

• Something happened. A funding round closed, a product shipped, a regulator moved, a company folded. “We exist and are excited” is not an event.
• Specifics. Names, figures, dates, documents. A term sheet beats an adjective; a screenshot beats a summary.
• Verifiable. Tell us how to confirm it. Tips we cannot stand up do not run, however good they sound.
• Blind spots welcome. We are especially interested in tech news from Latin America and the Gulf that global outlets miss — funding, infrastructure, regulation, and the companies building for those markets.

For founders

Announcing something? Send it before it is public, with a clear embargo time and the numbers you can actually share. Round size, investors, valuation if you will state it, and what the money is for — those decide whether an announcement is a story. A press release alone usually is not.

What to expect

Everything sent to the desk gets read; we cannot reply to everything. If we are pursuing your tip, you will hear from us within a few business days, usually with questions. Silence is not a judgment on your company — most weeks there are more good tips than slots.

To be explicit about the trade: we do not pay for tips, and tipping us does not buy favorable coverage. What you get is a desk that reads carefully and credits properly. More on how we work is on the about page.