How Newtown Partners Aims To Assist Start-Ups Reach Their Fullest Growth Potential
How Newtown Partners Aims To Assist Start-Ups Reach Their Fullest Growth Potential. Founded in 2014 on the set of Dragon’s Den by Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, 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 internationally. As investors, the team has successfully invested in and nurtured a number of early-stage companies from ideation to market-leading businesses.
Vinny Lingham is very well respected within the Silicon Valley startup community. He uses these strong network connections to get early investor access to the most promising and disruptive technology startups in the US and also to help startups connect with international partners and investors. Vinny previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq-listed companies ValueClick and Yahoo and is a member of the global, high-impact, entrepreneur organizations Endeavour and YPO.
Llew Claasen is similarly a well-respected member of the South African and international startup communities as a global technology startup thought leader, conference speaker, and technology advocate to local and international regulators. Llew is also the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the original, the oldest and the largest Bitcoin advocacy organization globally, headquartered in San Francisco, U.S. Llew has a Masters degree in the Management of Technology & Innovation and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Newtown Partners provides post investment management support through board participation, activity-based mentoring and coaching. Portfolio companies have access to a range of strategic support services to help define and execute on their go-to-market strategy, product strategy and business model.
The company believes that simply acquiring immature startups is also not a viable solution but finding a way to work with these startups to drive growth for them and innovation for an organisation is the best way to safeguard against future disruptive risks. The company’s Managed Corporate Innovation Program Services enable corporates to reach beyond the confines of their own structures and directly invest and participate in disruptive technology innovations.
