Newtown Partners

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 Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley). 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.

Llew Claasen

Managing Partner

Vinny Lingham

General Partner

17 past transactions

Chefaa

Venture Round in 2022
Chefaa is a medicine delivery platform based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2017. The company offers a smart medicine system application that enables users to order medications from pharmacies online. In addition to facilitating online orders, Chefaa allows patients to set reminders for their medications, helping them manage their pharmacy needs effectively. Through its innovative approach, Chefaa aims to enhance the accessibility and convenience of obtaining necessary medications for users.

Haulio

Series A in 2021
Haulio Pte Ltd is a logistics company based in Singapore, established in 2016, that focuses on the container haulage industry. The firm has developed a web-based platform that enhances the efficiency of trucking operations. Its key products include the Haulage Operations Platform (HOP), which serves as a comprehensive digital tool for managing trucking jobs; the Haulio Connectivity System (HCS), designed for driver management and real-time tracking; and the Haulage Management Platform (HMP), which consolidates various trucking needs into one interface. By aggregating demand for shipments and warehousing, Haulio improves accessibility for haulage companies and streamlines fleet management and trucking services, enabling effective optimization and transaction tracking.

Clockwork Logistics Systems

Seed Round in 2021
Enterprise automation and process flow instrumentation that effectively digitizes the delivery of products across the global supply chain. The platform includes: Enterprise data integration with existing operational system, cloud based administrative interface and a fully branded (white labeled) and highly configurable 5-Star driver or reciever App.

Portcast

Seed Round in 2021
Portcast makes logistics profitable with accurate demand forecasts. Our proprietary data analytics engine is custom-designed for the logistics industry. The engine ingests combines historical data with real-world uncertainties, continuously identifies patterns in the supply chain that disrupt demand and applies comprehensive machine learning models to dramatically improve prediction results. Portcast is a route-based SaaS platform which provides the customers with both a web interface and an API for easy integration. In short, we turn market volatility into competitive advantage for logistics companies.

Shypple

Series A in 2021
Shypple B.V. is a logistics company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2016. It provides a comprehensive range of services including door pick-ups, customs brokerage, ocean, air, and rail freight, as well as on-demand warehousing. The company also offers trucking, finance, insurance, and customs services, supported by a digital freight forwarding platform. This central web application enhances visibility across the supply chain, enabling efficient collaboration among all parties involved in international trade. Shypple's platform allows users to compare pricing from various carriers and optimize routing options, facilitating quicker and more transparent management of freight shipments. The company prides itself on offering 24/7 support, ensuring that clients receive attentive service without compromising the personal touch typical of traditional freight forwarders.

Redbird

Seed Round in 2021
Millions of Africans live with chronic diseases without a convenient way to manage their health. And every year, millions more develop chronic disease – at a rate of two times the world average. Unlike those with acute disease, chronic disease patients require not just treatment, but also lifelong health monitoring to remain healthy and productive. African chronic diseases patients need a convenient way to manage their conditions, and the current, top-down approach to healthcare cannot cope. That’s where we come in. At Redbird, we supply pharmacies with everything they need to offer rapid diagnostic services for chronic disease, helping them to solve this need by establishing them as the most convenient place for patients to manage their health.

Lori Systems

Corporate Round in 2020
Lori Systems Corp. develops, owns, and operates a logistics platform that helps to connect transport with cargo. It serves transporters and cargo owners. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya with additional offices in Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Lagos, Nigeria.

Field

Series A in 2020
Field Intelligence, Inc. provides a cloud based application to monitor, manage, and monetize asset ecosystem in real time. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Diego, California. As of July 24, 2019, Field Intelligence, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Network Innovations Inc.

SweepSouth

Venture Round in 2019
SweepSouth is a cleaning service company that connects clients to on-demand domestic cleaners via an online booking platform. It was founded by Aisha R. Pandor and Alen Ribic in 2014 and is based in Sandown, England.

Ovex

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a blockchain platform designed to offer liquidity to all crypto assets. The company's platform offers secure, and transparent digital trading in cryptocurrency to establish a competitive, open, and liquid market, enabling clients to buy, sell, store, transfer, and earn interest on their cryptocurrency investments.

Ovex

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a blockchain platform designed to offer liquidity to all crypto assets. The company's platform offers secure, and transparent digital trading in cryptocurrency to establish a competitive, open, and liquid market, enabling clients to buy, sell, store, transfer, and earn interest on their cryptocurrency investments.

Augmentors

Seed Round in 2018
Beyond their material world, an ancient group of living data fragments is at war. Bello Realm, once a place of peace, is now cast in shadow. Two heroes, brother and sister, stand against each other in the battle between light and dark, between freedom and corruption. Before you join the fight, you must first learn of the Augmentors and the Realm: you must know what has happened. Only once you have acquired this knowledge can you be entrusted with the choice.

Wala

Venture Round in 2017
Wala has built a community-driven and gamified personal financial management tool for cash-based consumers in emerging markets. The product allows users to easily track their spending and earning to develop a financial profile for a customer that currently does not have one. The app then uses that profile to set weekly financial and engagement goals which improve the consumers spending and savings. As users continue to engage with the app by logging their transactions and reaching their goals they will be awarded points which can be redeemed for cash, data, and other rewards. Through the app the user will then be able to sign-up and access financial products like deposit accounts, payments, and more.
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