CRE Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

54

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

5.40

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.46

Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechB2BPaymentsMobile AppsDeveloper APIs

Summary

CRE Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in South Africa. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Johannesburg.

The fund was created by Pardon Makumbe, Pule Taukobong. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the CRE Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Omidyar Network, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Spark Capital, Omidyar Network, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spark Capital, GV, Omidyar Network.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from CRE Venture Capital is 1-5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Andela, OneUni, Lynk The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
AlgeriaCameroonComorosEgyptEquatorial Guinea Show 31 more
Check size
Up to 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
5.40
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (15)
  • Financial Services (15)
  • Software (10)
  • Payments (10)
  • E-Commerce (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • South Africa (19)
  • Nigeria (10)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Egypt (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
156M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Carry1st 23 Apr 2020 Internet, Mobile, Gaming, Mobile Apps Seed 2M Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa
Flextock 25 May 2021 Logistics, E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing Seed 3M Cairo Governorate, Cairo, Egypt
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