Newtown Partners Insights

Trade plays a vital role in fuelling economic growth and fostering cooperation among nations. At the heart of global trade is supply chain finance, which manages financial flows, events, and processes among partners throughout a supply chain. However, traditional [...]

The rolling supply chain disruptions of recent years have presented an imperative for organizations to identify and reduce their supply chain risks and costly disruptions when unforeseen events occur. Companies are looking to introduce resilience into their supply chains [...]

As emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) continuously evolve and find applications within the supply chain, disrupting existing markets and creating entirely new addressable markets will disrupt the logistics and supply chain industry sectors.   [...]

Newtown Partner is excited to announce its partnership with DP World, one of the largest global supply chain providers, a progression of the already established partnership with Imperial Logistics (Imperial), which was wholly acquired by DP World in March [...]

An emerging technology that holds immense potential to disrupt the logistics and supply chain management  sectors is the digital supply chain twin. Startups worldwide are leveraging this cutting-edge concept and related technologies to disrupt traditional logistics practices and unlock [...]

In the face of escalating environmental pressures, the logistics and supply chain management industry sectors have recognized the transformative potential of the circular economy. Unlike a traditional linear model, circular economy business models aim to eliminate waste, circulate products [...]

Platforms and Aggregators In the ever-evolving logistics and supply chain industry landscape, startups are already challenging the established norms by offering groundbreaking solutions to age-old problems. To maintain a competitive edge and foster innovation, large corporate organizations must comprehensively [...]

"The job of an investor is not to predict the future. It is to see the present clearly." - Benchmark Capital Partners. In the highly competitive world of venture capital, standing out from the crowd can be a key [...]

Starting a business can be an exciting undertaking for budding entrepreneurs. Launching the next big startup requires more effort than buying a domain name or registering the company – you must plan out every step of the journey. That's [...]

In developed markets, technology has enabled startups to utilize existing infrastructure and communal assets to disrupt traditional industries from mobility to hospitality. And many have applied this same thesis to other industries and countries, but not one size fits [...]

"Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." - John McCarthy, 1956 AI, or artificial intelligence, aims to create intelligent machines [...]

We recently invested in Fulfillment Bridge, a promising startup empowering online merchants to control their eCommerce logistic supply chain and scale their business cross-border. Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff End customers expect to receive their e-commerce products anytime and anywhere within [...]

Newtown Partners will host the Filecoin Africa Launch event, the largest gathering of the Filecoin community in Africa to date, on 15 November 2022 at Cabo in Cape Town, South Africa. The event is free to attend and invite-only, [...]

We recently invested in Lami, an insurtech startup which embeds insurance into existing digital infrastructure to increase insurance penetration across Africa. Shutterstock/ArtemisDiana Insurance market penetration remains low in Africa at less than 3% in 2019, with GWP [...]

Newtown Partners via the Imperial Venture Fund has invested in the US-based trucking SaaS platform, BeyondTrucks. This undisclosed round of venture financing marks an increase in investment depth into the US trucking landscape. Shutterstock/PopTika Traditional trucking companies face [...]

We recently invested in  Waspito, a Cameroon-based digital health platform on a big mission to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the African continent.   The $2.7m oversubscribed Series Seed round of venture financing via the Imperial Venture Fund [...]