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Newland Ventures
Newland Ventures connects capital with investment opportunities, advises on cross-border transactions, and makes angel and sweat equity investments.
Newland Ventures
Newland Ventures connects capital with investment opportunities, advises on cross-border transactions, and makes angel and sweat equity investments. It was founded in 2017 to provide international investors with access to carefully screened and selected US and European investment opportunities. Since 2019 it has also offered directorship services, strategic advice, transaction management and outside general counsel services to investors and operating companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
2017
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
New York
Corporate office
New York, NY, United States
Additional offices
Barcelona, Spain
Principals
Benjamin R. Newland
Founder
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Newland Ventures?
Benjamin R. Newland makes all investment and advisory decisions as the firm’s sole named principal. He draws on 20 years of cross-border legal and transactional experience at King & Spalding and Cleary Gottlieb, and his operating history includes co-founding Active.com, which Vista Equity Partners later acquired for $1 billion (per the firm, 2023).
How does Newland Ventures source proprietary deal flow?
The firm sources primarily through Benjamin Newland’s direct relationships with family offices, sovereign funds, and financial institutions cultivated during his international legal career. It also leverages a network of asset managers, operators, and specialist third-party advisors for deal screening, with a focus on US and European opportunities.
What asset classes does Newland Ventures cover?
The firm operates across real estate, corporate venture capital, and private fund investments. Its advisory work spans acquisition management and cross-border structuring for these asset classes, while its principal book concentrates on seed-stage companies with product-market fit (per the firm, 2023).
How is Bayt ar-Razzaq Advisors connected to Newland Ventures?
No publicly available information confirms a structural link between Bayt ar-Razzaq Advisors (an earlier Altss research entity associated with Benjamin Newland) and the current Newland Ventures entity that launched in 2017. The firm’s website and public filings describe only the 2017 founding.
What is Benjamin Newland's governance footprint outside Newland Ventures?
Newland chairs Athens Research & Technology, a Georgia-based biotech company, and Nightjar Coffee Limited in the UAE. In 2023, he joined the board of GFH Partners, an asset manager with $6 billion deployed across North America, Europe, and the GCC (per GFH Partners, 2023).
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