Agnes Aistleitner Kisuule is an entrepreneur-turned-VC at First Circle who built and scaled tech companies across three emerging markets (Jordan, Ukraine, and Uganda) before becoming a Kampala-based general partner, giving her hands-on founder experience rather than a traditional finance-only background. She has consistently focused on creating quality employment for local women in her businesses across different markets and is known as a super networker in the African fintech space, leveraging her deep on-the-ground presence and cross-market experience to support early-stage fintech founders.
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Fintech, Insurtech, SaaS, Health, Logistics
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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$100K - $250K
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First Circle is a female-led venture capital fund that invests exclusively in African fintech companies, with both general partners having built and exited fintech businesses themselves before becoming investors. The fund takes a concentrated approach with only 24 companies in their portfolio and provides hands-on operational support to help African fintech startups prepare for Series A funding and scale across multiple markets.
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$400K - $1.5M
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$250K-$1M
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