
Current Firm
CRE Venture Capital
Investments
10+ companies
Focus
Fintech, Enterprise
About Pardon Makumbe
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.
Focus Areas
FintechEnterpriseMarketplaceGamingSaaS
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Julian Capital
Harpoon Ventures
Humba Ventures
Fifty Years
Deep Checks
Founders Fund
Lightspeed
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Funds that lead pre-seeds