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Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Newtown Partners
Newtown Partners
Newtown Partners is an investment firm actively investing in emerging, disruptive technology startups across multiple growth stages.
venture manager, reported GAV $29.8M across 1 vehicles
Importance
17
moderate
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
98
high
Research priority
10
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- San Diego, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 550 WEST B STREET, San Diego, CA, 92101adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- +1 (650) 772 0551adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 10, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $28.3Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- +1 (650) 772 0551adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
20 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- climate
- Stages
- series b, early
- Geography
- africa, global
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- venture capital
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 100%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 20
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial Investments Ventures Limited | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $29.8M Oct 1, 2024 | 2 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
2 current, 0 departed
Llewellyn Claasen
Managing partnerShareholder And Managing Partner · since Jan 1, 2018
Vinodan Lingham
Managing partnerShareholder And Managing Partner · since Jan 1, 2018
Investments on record
20 edges, 20 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
15 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
DCVC 1 shared · one time83North 1 shared · one timeGlynn Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeEthos Manager LLC 1 shared · one timeA.capital Ventures 1 shared · one timeAvenir Management Company, LLC 1 shared · one timeFika Ventures 1 shared · one timeTAU Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeHOF Capital 1 shared · one timeAccion 1 shared · one timeAnsa Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeB Capital Group 1 shared · one timeCRE Venture Capital, Inc. 1 shared · one timeInnovating Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeKEY 1 Capital Management Ltd 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- Apr 11, 2022Newtown Partners first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Apr 11, 2022Imperial Investments Ventures Limited first reported on Form ADV by Newtown Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $17,020,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactImperial Investments Ventures LimitedSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $29.8M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
39 observations from 3 sources