The firm, founded and run by internationally successful entrepreneurs Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, has a strong executive team with a proven track record in technology entrepreneurship. Newtown Partners operates out of offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Sunnyvale, California, and has successfully invested in and nurtured a number of early-stage companies from ideation to market-leading businesses. The company's key focus verticals are logistics technology, supply chain technology, and health technology, with a specific focus on supply chain tech and logistics tech (freight tech), as well as health tech in Africa.