Venture capital firm

Newtown Partners

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Newtown Partners is a Cape Town-based venture capital firm and family office founded in 2014 by internationally successful entrepreneurs Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen. The firm specialises in early-stage investments in disruptive technology startups, with a particular focus on emerging technologies such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the global logistics technology stack. In addition to its proprietary investment activities, the firm manages corporate venture capital programmes for global logistics groups, notably the Imperial/DP World Venture Fund launched in March 2020. Newtown Partners operates with an entrepreneurial-led approach, offering "hands-on" strategic support to help startups scale from ideation to market leadership in both local and international markets.