Newtown Partners — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$1.0M Checks)
Newtown Partners is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa investing in Other, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.0M checks and has 23 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 23 companies on record
- Partners
- 2 listed
- AUM
- $500M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Healthcare
- HQ
- Cape Town, South Africa
Last verified: 2026-10-14
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.0M
$500M
23+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage investor with explicit digital health exposure and meaningful pre-seed capacity. Suitable for software that sits inside provider workflows and improves care delivery.
How Newtown Partners invests
Newtown Partners is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare.
Newtown Partners typically writes checks of $100K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $500M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
Newtown Partners has backed 23 companies in our records, including Complete Farmer, Waspito, Shypple.
Partners & Team
Vinny Lingham
General Partner
Vinny Lingham, General Partner, is an internet entrepreneur.
Llew Claasen
Managing Partner
Llew Claasen, Managing Partner, is a go-to-market strategist.
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Invests In
Funds
Newtown Partners Fund II
Newtown Partners Fund I
Portfolio Companies (23)
Other
Complete Farmer
Digital marketplace helping corporations source agricultural commodities directly from smallholder farmers across Africa
Waspito
Telehealth and insurance distribution platform
Shypple
Digital freight forwarder with a cloud-based supply chain platform
Chefaa
E-pharmacy marketplace for consumers and pharmaceutical stakeholders
MDaas Global
Tech-enabled diagnostics and preventive care network in Nigeria
Clockwork Logistics
Logistics and supply-chain technology company digitizing motor carriage and proof-of-delivery data
Portcast
SaaS platform for real-time vessel/container visibility and predictive analytics
Fulfillment Bridge
Cross-border fulfillment SaaS for e-commerce sellers
Lori Systems
Field Intelligence
Technology-first pharmaceutical distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Vinny Lingham, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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