Louis Newton joined the Pacific Channel team in 2023 as an associate and now manages the company's venture studio.
His primary role is to manage te day-to-day operations of the incubator programme, ensuring smooth execution and facilitating the growth of our startups. He will continue to provide support to the investment team as they analyse and assess potential investments, undertake due diligence, and develop commercialisation strategies. Louis's skills and experience in building business dashboards that underpin data-driven decision-making will assist our science and engineering-based portfolio companies to constantly test key hypotheses and quickly adapt their technology design and business strategies.
Louis has a BSC in physics, chemistry and maths and a BA in philosophy from the University of Auckland.
Outside of Pacific Channel, Louis produces electronic and ambient music and he’s currently developing an open-source board game. He’s also passionate about cooking and spent a year working as a sous-chef in Melbourne.
