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Pardon Makumbe

Managing Partner, CRE Venture CapitalCRE Venture Capital

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