Newtown Partners
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Newtown Partners is an investment firm founded by serial entrepreneurs, based in Cape Town with offices in San Diego and Rotterdam. It invests in technology companies across various stages, with a focus on Africa, and is currently raising a fund for Series B+ tech companies.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in technology, logistics, fintech and digital health. 50 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We support proven businesses with strong revenue and scale potential, using structured capital to deliver attractive, risk-adjusted returns and measurable impact.”
— Newtown Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- technology, logistics, fintech, digital health
- Portfolio
- 50 companies
Team, as Newtown Partners publishes it
- Llew Claasen Founding partner
- Vinny Lingham Founding Partner
- Lesego Tladinyane General partner
- Akash Maharaj General Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on newtownpartners.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 38 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- LoftyInc Capital Management 2 shared companies: flutterwave.com, chefaa.com
- BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) 1 shared company: shypple.com
- ACE Ventures 1 shared company: flaviar.com
- Fil Rouge Capital 1 shared company: flaviar.com
- Kima Ventures 1 shared company: flaviar.com
- Multiplier Capital, LLC 1 shared company: flaviar.com
- Silicon Gardens 1 shared company: flaviar.com
- 83North 1 shared company: holidu.com
- EQT Ventures 1 shared company: holidu.com
- Key 1 Capital Management LTD 1 shared company: holidu.com
and 28 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Newtown Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.newtownpartners.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people
- https://www.newtownpartners.com/feed/portfolio_count
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Record 3994 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence medium
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