Pardon Makumbe

Founder and Managing Partner at CRE Venture Capital

📍 Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Board Member
Nov 2025
OVEX is a mission-driven cryptocurrency exchange pioneering the future of cross-border payments in Africa. Our goal is clear: to introduce cryptocurrency as the prevailing settlement layer in Africa and the world over, unlocking faster, more secure, and affordable payments. OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: Full-stack Cross-border Payments Platform Backed by local rails (OVEX owns rails in 16 markets); deep liquidity (enabling high-volume players to trade large tickets with zero slippage); stablecoin infrastructure (for instant wallet-to-wallet transfers); and multi-currency accounts (that allow single access to all major payment corridors). OTC Desk Our in-house exchange and OTC desk is a white glove service that lets you lock in big tickets at a single price, while plugging into our APIs to automate cumbersome processes (like requesting a price when investigating rates). Our on/off ramps offer unmatched crypto-fiat and fiat-crypto liquidity in multiple markets, so our clients can move money at scale with peace of mind. Retail Solution Instantly buy and sell as little as $10 worth of crypto currencies with your local fiat on the OVEX desktop and mobile app. Our one-click trading tool means you can buy and sell cryptocurrency with ease.
Board Member
Jul 2025
DigiTax is a e-invoicing service provider licensed by tax authorities in multiple markets to provide seamless e-invoicing solutions for micro,small,medium and large enterprises. We enable companies to generate and transmit compliant e-invoices, and meet reporting requirements, all from one platform. Designed for reliability and scalability, DigiTax is built to support the needs of fast-growing, digital-first businesses and enterprises navigating complex regulatory landscapes. By automating the compliance process, we help businesses save time, reduce errors, and focus on growth while staying ahead of evolving tax mandates.
Board Member
May 2024
CutStruct’s mission is to provide products and services that help you buy materials, hire for, and manage construction projects more efficiently and effectively. We build technology products that bring efficiency, convenience and cost savings to construction projects. Our product, Livevend Bulk is a digital platform that provides real time prices of construction materials as well as comparison with other brands of construction material for effective decision making on pricing. It also facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers of construction materials online that enhances efficiency and transparency while providing additional value such as insurance, financing and competitive pricing- https://livevend.com/
mid stageConstruction
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Jan 2023
Matta is a technology platform that connects buyers and suppliers of chemicals and raw materials across Africa. We also provide financial, logistical and technical solutions that supports the growth of chemical businesses along different points in the value chain
Board Member
Jun 2021
Sabi connects African markets with each other and the rest of the world. As demand for Africa’s resources grows, the world needs an open, predictable, sustainable, and secure solution delivering the digital commercial experience. Sabi furnishes the technology that blends global reach with local insights to transform supply chains – transparently, ethically, and sustainably. Our competitive advantage is a relentless focus on removing barriers and offering businesses direct access to the most streamlined, reliable supply chain solution on the market. If you are a merchant, exporter, distributor, or global importer, reach out to us! Sabi’s secret sauce has been a relentless focus on removing barriers and offering businesses direct access to the most streamlined, reliable supply chain solution on the market.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. Across our publishing and Pay1st business lines, we are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Supercell. We are backed by top investors like: a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony and Nas.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Join 100’s of Real Estate Agencies and Property Developers using Flow to automate and enable their social media marketing. Flow automatically creates and targets property ads for Real Estate Agencies and Property developers, removing the complexity and doing the heavy lifting while you’re out closing deals. Book a demo: https://flowliving.com/book-demo
Board Member
Jan 2019
At FlexClub we believe anyone should have the payment flexibility to access more services online whenever they need them. Car subscription services in South Africa just happen to be our starting point. Unlocking payment flexibility in the car rental industry is difficult though. Why? Because car rental companies depend on legacy credit infrastructure built for people with credit cards. Why credit cards? Because credit cards are currently the easiest way for rental companies to get the protection they need against risk. So how do we solve this? We enable rental companies to offer customers their own branded flexible payment options through a single platform without upfront costly development or operational complexity.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Smile ID provides the best Africa-focused solutions for real-time Digital KYC, Identity Verification, User Onboarding, Document Verification, Liveness Checks, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, Know your Business (KYB), and Identity Data Deduplication across Africa. We are building the tools and software that make it easier for millions of Africans to prove and verify their identity online. Our platform includes SDKs and APIs for User Onboarding, Digital KYC, Identity Verification, Document Verification, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, and ID validation in mobile applications and on the web. Our identity verification and artificial intelligence tools have been specially designed for African faces and identities. Our mission is to make the benefits of a modern digital lifestyle universally accessible by expanding trust in underserved markets. We are backed by Costanoa Ventures, Future Africa, PTB Ventures, Khosla Impact, 500 Startups, CRE Venture Capital etc
Board Observer
Jan 2018
SafeBoda is Africa’s Super App - 2-wheeler ride hailing market leader and has a growing consumer platform that is revolutionizing transportation, payments, fin services and on-demand services in Africa’s cities. Based in Uganda & Nigeria, we are a venture funded company that is already having huge impact for millions in our markets.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.
Board Member
Jun 2016
Rensource began commercial operations in 2016. It is a leading renewable energy and merchant services company revolutionizing energy provision in Africa by building and operating clean energy based microutilities. It is Nigeria’s fastest growing provider of off-grid energy, powering the productivity of small and medium size enterprises.
Board Observer
Oct 2015
Asoko Insight is Africa’s leading corporate data and engagement platform, providing global investors, multinationals and development institutions the most effective route to discover, shortlist and engage their target universe of African companies.
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2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
OVEX is a mission-driven cryptocurrency exchange pioneering the future of cross-border payments in Africa. Our goal is clear: to introduce cryptocurrency as the prevailing settlement layer in Africa and the world over, unlocking faster, more secure, and affordable payments. OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: Full-stack Cross-border Payments Platform Backed by local rails (OVEX owns rails in 16 markets); deep liquidity (enabling high-volume players to trade large tickets with zero slippage); stablecoin infrastructure (for instant wallet-to-wallet transfers); and multi-currency accounts (that allow single access to all major payment corridors). OTC Desk Our in-house exchange and OTC desk is a white glove service that lets you lock in big tickets at a single price, while plugging into our APIs to automate cumbersome processes (like requesting a price when investigating rates). Our on/off ramps offer unmatched crypto-fiat and fiat-crypto liquidity in multiple markets, so our clients can move money at scale with peace of mind. Retail Solution Instantly buy and sell as little as $10 worth of crypto currencies with your local fiat on the OVEX desktop and mobile app. Our one-click trading tool means you can buy and sell cryptocurrency with ease.
Board Member
Jul 2025
DigiTax is a e-invoicing service provider licensed by tax authorities in multiple markets to provide seamless e-invoicing solutions for micro,small,medium and large enterprises. We enable companies to generate and transmit compliant e-invoices, and meet reporting requirements, all from one platform. Designed for reliability and scalability, DigiTax is built to support the needs of fast-growing, digital-first businesses and enterprises navigating complex regulatory landscapes. By automating the compliance process, we help businesses save time, reduce errors, and focus on growth while staying ahead of evolving tax mandates.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
CutStruct’s mission is to provide products and services that help you buy materials, hire for, and manage construction projects more efficiently and effectively. We build technology products that bring efficiency, convenience and cost savings to construction projects. Our product, Livevend Bulk is a digital platform that provides real time prices of construction materials as well as comparison with other brands of construction material for effective decision making on pricing. It also facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers of construction materials online that enhances efficiency and transparency while providing additional value such as insurance, financing and competitive pricing- https://livevend.com/
mid stageConstruction
2023
Board Member
Jan 2023
Matta is a technology platform that connects buyers and suppliers of chemicals and raw materials across Africa. We also provide financial, logistical and technical solutions that supports the growth of chemical businesses along different points in the value chain
2021
Board Member
Jun 2021
Sabi connects African markets with each other and the rest of the world. As demand for Africa’s resources grows, the world needs an open, predictable, sustainable, and secure solution delivering the digital commercial experience. Sabi furnishes the technology that blends global reach with local insights to transform supply chains – transparently, ethically, and sustainably. Our competitive advantage is a relentless focus on removing barriers and offering businesses direct access to the most streamlined, reliable supply chain solution on the market. If you are a merchant, exporter, distributor, or global importer, reach out to us! Sabi’s secret sauce has been a relentless focus on removing barriers and offering businesses direct access to the most streamlined, reliable supply chain solution on the market.
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