Investing in tomorrow’s success stories today.

Newtown Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startup businesses. Founded and run by internationally successful entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, Newtown Partners has an entrepreneurial focus that goes beyond investment. The team operates out of offices in Cape Town, South Africa and San Diego, California.

The firm has a strong track record of investing in successful technology startups at the forefront of innovation and has successfully invested in and nurtured a number of early-stage companies from ideation to market-leading businesses.

Newtown Partners has a strong executive team with a proven track record in technology entrepreneurship. The team has successfully launched, grown and sold technology startup businesses as entrepreneurs themselves and know what is required to succeed locally and internationally.

Why we exist

Managed Corporate Innovation services that deliver business results

We help organizations like Imperial drive disruptive innovation in their industry with a customized corporate venture capital fund program.

Meet our directors

Llew Claasen
Llew ClaasenManaging partner
Llew is a go-to-market strategist with almost two decades of senior management experience in cryptoassets (since 2012), digital product management and digital marketing.
Vinny Lingham
Vinny LinghamGeneral Partner
Vinny is a serial technology entrepreneur who is also the co-founder and CEO of Civic Technologies and previously founded Gyft, which was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2014.

Featured companies in our portfolio

Latest Insights

  • Agritech

Why we invested in Agritech startup Complete Farmer

November 6th, 2023|

We recently invested in Complete Farmer, a digital marketplace that enables global corporations to source agricultural commodities directly from smallholder farmers across Africa. The agritech startup, based in Ghana, addresses challenges experienced by smallholder [...]

Founder Series: meet Justin Drennan from Parcelninja

October 30th, 2023|

Episode 2: Building and exiting an ecommerce fulfillment business in Africa Welcome to the second episode of the Founder Series. We talked with Justin Drennan, co-founder and, until recently, the CEO of Parcelninja. Parcelninja [...]

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