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Pardon Makumbe

Managing Partner, CRE Venture Capital

About

Pardon Makumbe is a founding partner at CRE Venture Capital with an unusually broad investing background across Rothschild family investments, Bain & Company, Emerging Capital Partners, and Temasek in New York, London, Johannesburg, and Singapore. He combines electrical engineering training from Princeton and an MBA from Wharton with board-level experience at defining African fintech companies like Flutterwave, Sabi, and Smile Identity. Pardon Makumbe is a founding partner at CRE Venture Capital with an unusually broad investing background across Rothschild family investments, Bain & Company, Emerging Capital Partners, and Temasek in New York, London, Johannesburg, and Singapore. He combines electrical engineering training from Princeton and an MBA from Wharton with board-level experience at defining African fintech companies like Flutterwave, Sabi, and Smile Identity.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
FinTech
SaaS
Marketplaces
Proptech
Gaming
VR

Investment details

Avg check size$50K - $1M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
Africa
India
USA