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John Newton

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Board director at Weaveworks · Founder at Alfresco

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

FoundedAlfresco

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Karan MehandruunlockedJohn: together at Unstructured (2023–2026)
×3John: together at University of California, Berkeley
×5John: together at Benchmark
×2John: together at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

About

John Newton co-founded Documentum, where he served as CTO, and later co-founded Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management company. He currently holds the role of Chief Innovation Strategist and strategic advisor at Hyland. Newton has also invested in companies including Rasa and Weaveworks, serving on the board of Weaveworks, and was Chief Strategy Officer and a board member of Agile Growth Corporation, a public SPAC.

Board director at Weaveworks

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Weaveworks's investors · 4

33NSilicon Valley · $4.3M – $13M checksAccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checksBright Pixel CapitalLisbonGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks

Co-founders at Weaveworks

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Matthias RadestockExecutive Officer, Director
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Alexander RichardsonExecutive Officer, Director

Founder at Alfresco

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Alfresco's investors · 4

Mayfield FundCupertino · $500K – $12M checks · since 2014Millennium Technology Value PartnersBelgrade · since 2014Sageview CapitalPalo Alto · $20M – $100M checks · since 2014Sapphire VenturesMenlo Park · $5M – $20M checks · since 2014

Co-founders at Alfresco

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John PowellDirector

Experience

  1. HylandChief Innovation Strategistcurrent2025 — presentMaidenhead
  2. Total Neural Enterprises, Inc (tne.ai)Investorcurrent2025 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
  3. QuantlyInvestorcurrent2024 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
  4. unstructured.ioInvestorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  5. CareignitionInvestorcurrent2021 — presentChicago, Illinois, United States
  6. RasaInvestorcurrent2017 — presentBerlin Area, Germany
  7. lunar.devInvestor2023 — 2026Tel Aviv District, Israel
  8. PerconaBoard Member2024 — 2025Durham, North Carolina, United States
  9. WeaveworksBoard Member2015 — 2024London, United Kingdom
  10. Agile Growth CorporationChief Strategy Officer and Board Member2021 — 2023Taplow, England, United Kingdom
  11. AlfrescoFounder and CTO2005 — 2020Maidenhead, UK
  12. AIIM InternationalBoard Member and Chairman2010 — 2014Silver Spring, MD
  13. ActivitiCo-Founder2002 — 2004Maidenhead, UK
  14. Benchmark CapitalEntrepreneur In Residence2001 — 2002
  15. DocumentumFounder1990 — 2001
  16. Ingres CorporationDirector of DBMS Development1981 — 1990Alameda, California

Skills & more

Enterprise Software99SaaS99Open Source29SharePoint4Open Source Software3XML9Art HistoryBiological AnthropologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Content Management99Enterprise Content Management99Strategy99
+12 moreCloud ComputingManagementEnterprise ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentStart-upsBoard LevelGenerative AIRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Natural Language Processing (NLP)IT StrategyProduct ManagementProduct Development

Languages English · French

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Who is John Newton?
John Newton co-founded Documentum, where he served as CTO, and later co-founded Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management company. He currently holds the role of Chief Innovation Strategist and strategic advisor at Hyland. Newton has also invested in companies including Rasa and Weaveworks, serving on the board of Weaveworks, and was Chief Strategy Officer and a board member of Agile Growth Corporation, a public SPAC.
Where does John Newton work?
John Newton is Founder of Alfresco and Board director at Weaveworks.
What companies did John Newton found?
John Newton founded Alfresco.
Where did John Newton go to school?
John Newton studied at University of California, Berkeley (BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford (Archeology, Political Economy); The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (Executive Education, Behavioral Economics).

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