# CRE Venture Capital

> CRE Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Financial Services and Software. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/cre-venture-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CRE_VC
- Website: http://www.cre.vc/

CRE Venture Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Financial Services and Software. Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $250k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 14% |
| Software | 7 | 11% |
| FinTech | 6 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 10% |
| Payments | 5 | 8% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 37% |
| Series A | 8 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 11% |
| Series B | 3 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 9 | 14% |
| South Africa | 8 | 13% |
| United States | 5 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| Egypt | 1 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Devon Tomb | Finance and Reporting | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devon-tomb-503e |
| Pardon Makumbe | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pardon-makumbe |
| Ahunna Ogunedo | Investment Professional | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahunna-ogunedo |
| David Eddyabasi | Investment Professional | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-eddyabasi |
| Robel Chiappini | Investment Professional | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robel-chiappini |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cutstruct | We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build. | $1.5M | Seed | May 26, 2025 |  |
| Letly | Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Cutstruct | We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build. | $250K | Seed | Aug 30, 2024 |  |
| Flowcart | Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform. | $1.6M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Cutstruct | We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build. | $750K | Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Flowcart | Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Stitch | Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $25M | Series A | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Matta | Matta is a technology platform that provides buyers and suppliers with a comprehensive marketplace for chemicals and materials. It handles the lifecycle of chemical and raw material supply and utilization, from forecasts and material selection to financing and logistics, to help clients with a constant supply of essential raw materials within theeconomy. The company also provides the necessary financial incentives and vehicles to aid the processes of supplier manufacturing, importation, and procurement. | $5M | Seed | Aug 31, 2023 |  |
| Sabi Am | Sabi is a provider of digital infrastructure for the distribution of goods and services. Its platform enables and empowers underserved merchants in the world, allowing agents, merchants, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using Sabi’s technology rails. These rails provide access toinventory, commodities, logistics, business tools, data insights, and financial services. | $38M | Series B | May 19, 2023 |  |
| Bettr | Bettr was founded by a collective of creative entrepreneurs and fintech veterans. A team determined to rewrite the financial fate of the South African youth, no matter what. Young people aren’t being given the access they need to the financial products they deserve, and it’s time that someone stepped in and changed that.We’re rethinking money,and we’ve called it Bettr. Through technology, creativity and community; we’re equipping young people with the confidence and currency to achieve their dreams.Around our core team is a growing community of striving and thriving creators. Together we’re co-creating a new culture of money in Africa. Our platform doesn’t just bank wealth, it nurtures worth. Because more than anything, we believe in the exponential potential of humans, and their ability to move the world forward.We’re founder-funded, angel-backed and here to build the future we want to live in. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does CRE Venture Capital invest in?

CRE Venture Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CRE Venture Capital's check size?

CRE Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $300k–$5M at Seed, $250k–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $1.1M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CRE Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact CRE Venture Capital?

Public channels for CRE Venture Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at CRE Venture Capital?

The team at CRE Venture Capital includes Devon Tomb (Finance and Reporting), Pardon Makumbe (Managing Partner) and Ahunna Ogunedo (Investment Professional), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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