John Newton

Co-Founder of Alfresco and Documentum, Strategic Advisor to Hyland

📍 Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Apr 2025
TNE.ai, we specialize in making AI safe, private, and focused on enterprise applications either real business impact. With over 30 years of experience driving technological change, our team helps organizations long term winners with three unique products serving the Financial Services, Customer Service, CRM, Industrial and Logistics markets. HorizonX which is a proven methodology and software package to determine what business dolution will give you the most long term competitive advantage with an easy on-ramp that gives you short-term proof of value right away. Find your vision, what horizon you are headed for today. Compass. Our revolutionary Agentic AI software offering, automates our proven methodology for converting your HorizonX vision into a concrete business plan with your company competence, competitive dynamics and customer analysis and from there automatically delivers a short and long term technical architecture and finally builds a full stack product for you in weeks not years. Orion. This is our collection of patent pending building blocks that acts as an integration layer to foundation providers like Azure, Google, AWS, IBM, OpenAI, Anthropic, open source and KPMG with many more to come.
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Dec 2024
Quantly provides LLM infrastructure for investment research use cases. We work with financial institutions to enable their internal tech teams or analyst teams to build their own GenAI use cases. Quickly and efficiently, using the latest LLM technology purpose-built for investment research. Deployed on clients infrastructure or on the cloud.
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Jun 2023
Lunar.dev is the infrastructure layer for governing outbound API traffic in the age of agentic AI. Built for engineering teams running at scale, Lunar.dev provides a production-grade gateway to manage and optimize traffic from AI-powered applications, including LLM calls, third-party APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) interactions. Our platform gives your team visibility, policy enforcement, and active controls over API consumption. It helps you move from experimentation to safe, scalable deployment. Whether youre looking to implement token-aware rate limits, cost-based routing, or access controls for autonomous agents, Lunar.dev gives you the tools to get there.
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Jun 2023
At Unstructured, were on a mission to give organizations access to all their data. We know the world runs on documents—from research reports and memos, to quarterly filings and plans of action. And yet, 80% of this information is trapped in inaccessible formats leading to inefficient decision-making and repetitive work. Until now. Unstructured captures this unstructured data wherever it lives and transforms it into AI-friendly JSON files for companies who are eager to fold AI into their business.
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Oct 2021
Careignition works to make healthcare fixable by making data meaningful. Through leveraging our unique data platform, we empower stakeholders with the data they need to manage and improve the value of healthcare.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Weaveworks empowers enterprises across all industries to unlock cloud agility and customer value with GitOps, a developer-centric operating model for Kubernetes. Founded in 2014, Weaveworks is a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and creates and contributes to several open source projects, including Weave Scope, Weave Net, Cortex, Flux, Flagger and eksctl. Our products and services enable teams to design, build and operate their Kubernetes platform at scale. Benefit from repeatable, flexible Kubernetes cluster management across all infrastructure - in the cloud, hybrid clouds and on-premise. We hire creative, self motivated and empathetic people who are passionate about Cloud Native Technologies. Are you ready to contribute ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact? Join us.
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Nov 2017
Rasa is an enterprise platform for building and operating AI agents across chat and voice channels. Organizations use Rasa to orchestrate complex, multi-step conversations, integrate AI agents with core business systems, and run them reliably in production environments. Rasa supports long-running interactions that span channels and systems. The platform enables consistent agent behavior as conversations evolve, including escalation, recovery, and coordination across workflows. This allows enterprises to deploy AI agents that align with operational requirements rather than isolated use cases. Designed for large-scale deployments, Rasa supports secure operation across cloud and on-prem environments and integrates with existing data, APIs, and tooling. Enterprises adopt Rasa when they need control, scalability, and governance for AI agents supporting critical customer and employee interactions. Rasa was founded in 2016 and is privately held. The company is backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Basis Set Ventures, PayPal Ventures, and StepStone Group.
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2025
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Apr 2025
TNE.ai, we specialize in making AI safe, private, and focused on enterprise applications either real business impact. With over 30 years of experience driving technological change, our team helps organizations long term winners with three unique products serving the Financial Services, Customer Service, CRM, Industrial and Logistics markets. HorizonX which is a proven methodology and software package to determine what business dolution will give you the most long term competitive advantage with an easy on-ramp that gives you short-term proof of value right away. Find your vision, what horizon you are headed for today. Compass. Our revolutionary Agentic AI software offering, automates our proven methodology for converting your HorizonX vision into a concrete business plan with your company competence, competitive dynamics and customer analysis and from there automatically delivers a short and long term technical architecture and finally builds a full stack product for you in weeks not years. Orion. This is our collection of patent pending building blocks that acts as an integration layer to foundation providers like Azure, Google, AWS, IBM, OpenAI, Anthropic, open source and KPMG with many more to come.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Quantly provides LLM infrastructure for investment research use cases. We work with financial institutions to enable their internal tech teams or analyst teams to build their own GenAI use cases. Quickly and efficiently, using the latest LLM technology purpose-built for investment research. Deployed on clients infrastructure or on the cloud.
Board Member
Sep 2024
Percona is widely recognized as a world-class open source database software, support, and services company. The organization is dedicated to helping businesses make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software. Percona works with numerous global brands across many industries creating a unified experience to monitor, manage, secure, and optimize database environments on any infrastructure. Percona equips organizations with the freedom to choose, the freedom to create, and the freedom to make a difference - helping them scale and innovate with speed as they grow. Databases run better with Percona.
2023
Investor
Jun 2023
Lunar.dev is the infrastructure layer for governing outbound API traffic in the age of agentic AI. Built for engineering teams running at scale, Lunar.dev provides a production-grade gateway to manage and optimize traffic from AI-powered applications, including LLM calls, third-party APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) interactions. Our platform gives your team visibility, policy enforcement, and active controls over API consumption. It helps you move from experimentation to safe, scalable deployment. Whether youre looking to implement token-aware rate limits, cost-based routing, or access controls for autonomous agents, Lunar.dev gives you the tools to get there.
Investor
Jun 2023
At Unstructured, were on a mission to give organizations access to all their data. We know the world runs on documents—from research reports and memos, to quarterly filings and plans of action. And yet, 80% of this information is trapped in inaccessible formats leading to inefficient decision-making and repetitive work. Until now. Unstructured captures this unstructured data wherever it lives and transforms it into AI-friendly JSON files for companies who are eager to fold AI into their business.
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