# Rus Newton

> Rus Newton is a seed investor backing IaaS, SaaS and Mining. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rus-newton-371419/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rusnewton98
- Website: https://x.com/rusnewton98

Rus Newton is a seed investor focused on IaaS and SaaS. Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $285k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| IaaS | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Mining | 1 | 17% |
| Travel | 1 | 17% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 17% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 2 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arcube | We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| UTU Technologies | Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy. | $285K | Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| MARAMOJA transport | MARAMOJA is leading a revolutionary movement toward a socially-powered on-demand economy, built on Africa’s core values of trust and relationships. Described as Uber for Africa, this comparison captures something of what we do, but belies why/how we do it. MM believes in universal access to trusted, affordable, culturally relevant on-demandtransportation as the transformational leapfrog of the next 10 years, as mobile phones have defined Africa’s last 10 years. To ease the impact of inefficient transport and logistics across Africa, MM digitally replicates existing cultural models for accessing transport via trusted connections - serving as an honest broker, an aggregator, and value added platform. By leveraging phone data and social media, MM is ushering a new era of sharing economy, access to the services people need through the people they already trust. |  | Seed | Apr 15, 2022 |  |
| Mintgreen | MintGreen builds, manages, and maintains industrial bitcoin mining systems co-located with utilities and industrial plants to produce guaranteed income from two revenue streams — cryptocurrency and the sale of heat, with a potential third revenue stream in the form of tax credits. |  | Seed | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| UTU Technologies | Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy. | $460K | Seed | Aug 08, 2020 |  |
| MARAMOJA transport | MARAMOJA is leading a revolutionary movement toward a socially-powered on-demand economy, built on Africa’s core values of trust and relationships. Described as Uber for Africa, this comparison captures something of what we do, but belies why/how we do it. MM believes in universal access to trusted, affordable, culturally relevant on-demandtransportation as the transformational leapfrog of the next 10 years, as mobile phones have defined Africa’s last 10 years. To ease the impact of inefficient transport and logistics across Africa, MM digitally replicates existing cultural models for accessing transport via trusted connections - serving as an honest broker, an aggregator, and value added platform. By leveraging phone data and social media, MM is ushering a new era of sharing economy, access to the services people need through the people they already trust. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [216 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/216-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chandaria Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandaria-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CoinShares](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinshares) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cristofoli Contracting](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristofoli-contracting) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fuel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-ventures-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Rus Newton invest in?

Rus Newton invests primarily in IaaS, SaaS and Mining startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rus Newton's check size?

Rus Newton typically joins rounds of $285k–$1.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rus Newton participates in.

### When did Rus Newton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rus Newton closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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