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First Circle Capital

Kingmaker TierBased on the data VC Catalog holds.

Kingmaker Tier: 84 out of 100

Also known as First Circle Africa, First Circle Africa Fund I, LP

  • Banking & lending
  • Crypto & blockchain
  • Finance operations
  • Insurance
  • Payments
  • Wealth & investing
  • Pre seed
  • Seed
  • Africa
  • VC
  • B2B
  • B2C
Investor type
VC
Investing status
Activeas of 2026-09-19Source (opens in a new tab)
Headquarters
New Castle, DE, United States
Latest fund size
$10.9MSEC amount sold, as of 2025-08-20Source (opens in a new tab)
Funds
1
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Record updated 30 September 2026

About

First Circle Capital supports founders building transformational companies. We’re entrepreneurs, company builders, and proven operators with deep expertise in FinTech. We’re more than investors to founders on their entrepreneurial journey, we’re partners.

Investment approach

Thesis
We invest in pre-seed and seed stage FinTech companies across Africa. We back founding teams with a big vision, a unique proposition and the skills to deliver. We invest early, often as the first institutional investor in a company and then catalyze additional smart capital from our network.Source (opens in a new tab)
Investing status notes
We invest in pre-seed and seed stage FinTech companies across Africa.

Funds

First Circle Africa Fund I, LP
$10.9MVintage 2022, Main fund, SEC amount sold

SEC registration

SEC CIK
1943561

Locations

Office
Casablanca, Morocco
Office
Kampala, Uganda
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