Newtype Ventures

About The Fund

Newtype Ventures is a venture capital fund that stands out as the new standard of venture investing with a specific focus on serving and investing in early-stage founding teams that include at least one underrepresented minority founder. Their investment thesis acknowledges that on average, diverse founding teams realize 30% higher returns. They primarily invest at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages, identifying these as the phases where diverse founding teams face the greatest need and where established VCs struggle to outperform. With a range of industries in their investment portfolio including PropTech, AgroTech, Business Solutions, HealthTech, Fitness, Food & Beverage, Real Estate, Construction, Healthcare, Wellness, and Consumer, they have established a diversified approach. Newtype Ventures offers a disciplined and data-driven process comprised of reading academic papers and industry research to form hypotheses, maintaining a proprietary database with metrics from over 2000 early-stage startups for benchmarking, employing empirically-based guardrails to filter deal flow, and requiring majority vote from deal team members for startups to progress in each step of the diligence process, including investment decisions. Their investments range from $100,000 to $1,000,000 with a sweet spot of about $550,000, and they specialize in stages from Pre-Seed to Series B. The value proposition to their portfolio companies includes more than capital; it entails service firms' access, a network of over 50 advisors, consultants, and experts, connections to banks and lenders for working capital, introductions to VC firms for late-stage capital, and assistance with Visa applications for founders and their employees. Newtype Ventures aims to empower founders with a comprehensive range of support reflecting their philosophy of investing to their advantage.