Newtown Partners
newtownpartners.com Direct + LP
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 both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from Series B 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 + LP
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 38 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence medium
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