GD1 (Global From Day One)
VC Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
GD1 (Global From Day One) is a generalist venture capital fund supporting globally ambitious kiwi companies with capital, operating expertise, and international connections.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries GD1 (Global From Day One) invests in
Stages GD1 (Global From Day One) invests in
Countries GD1 (Global From Day One) invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$8.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $860k–$11M
- Series A
- $1.2M–$19M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (23%)
- Manufacturing 6 (8%)
- Information Technology 6 (8%)
- SaaS 5 (7%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (32%)
- Series A 17 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (8%)
- Series B 4 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (3%)
Country
- New Zealand 25 (35%)
- United States 7 (10%)
- China 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Taiwan 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mark Hsu
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Chintaka Ranatunga
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner and Co-Founder | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
|
John Kells
Co-Managing Partner
|
Co-Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Vignesh Kumar
Co-Managing Partner
|
Co-Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water. | $19M / Series A / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits. | $10.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between. | $6.6M / Series A / Apr 15, 2026 | ||
Interstate
|
Interstate is an Ethereum pre-confirmation protocol. It aims to make Ethereum transactions near-instant and allow applications to self-order while maintaining full composability with L1. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 05, 2026 | |
| NextWork is developing the world's greatest online learning experience for switching careers. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| Ivo provides an AI-powered contract intelligence platform that helps legal and business teams review, analyze, and extract insights from agreements. It offers tools for automated redlining and comparison against playbooks, a repository that organizes contract libraries without manual tagging, and an assistant that answers complex contract questionsusing natural language. The platform connects to common workflows like Microsoft Word and enables users to uncover relationships between contract documents and surface risk or deviation patterns. Ivo’s technology aims to reduce the manual effort in contract review and support strategic decision-making across functions that work with agreements. | $55M / Series B / Jan 20, 2026 | ||
| inshAllah is a cryptocurrency staking platform that works on cutting edge applications of Islamic finance built on crypto rails. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Ribbon is an AI-powered job search tool that helps you discover your dream job faster. It offers a range of services tailored for your job search needs. From creating professional resumes to conducting mock interviews, Ribbon provides personalized guidance at every step of your job search. | $8.2M / Seed / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| Polymath is an app designed specifically for children that makes screen time fun, productive, and healthy. | $859.7K / Pre-Seed / Feb 17, 2025 | ||
| Ivo provides an AI-powered contract intelligence platform that helps legal and business teams review, analyze, and extract insights from agreements. It offers tools for automated redlining and comparison against playbooks, a repository that organizes contract libraries without manual tagging, and an assistant that answers complex contract questionsusing natural language. The platform connects to common workflows like Microsoft Word and enables users to uncover relationships between contract documents and surface risk or deviation patterns. Ivo’s technology aims to reduce the manual effort in contract review and support strategic decision-making across functions that work with agreements. | $16M / Series A / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| See all 71 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does GD1 (Global From Day One) invest in?
GD1 (Global From Day One) invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does GD1 (Global From Day One) invest in?
GD1 (Global From Day One) typically joins rounds of $600k–$8.2M at Seed, $860k–$11M at Pre-Seed and $1.2M–$19M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not GD1 (Global From Day One)'s own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds GD1 (Global From Day One) took part in.
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Who are the partners at GD1 (Global From Day One)?
The team at GD1 (Global From Day One) includes Mark Hsu (Partner), Chintaka Ranatunga (Managing Partner and Co-Founder) and John Kells (Co-Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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