# GD1 (Global From Day One)

> GD1 (Global From Day One) is a VC fund backing Software. See 68 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 68
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/17932029
- Website: https://globalfromdayone.com/

GD1 (Global From Day One) is a generalist venture capital fund supporting globally ambitious kiwi companies with capital, operating expertise, and international connections.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$8.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $860k–$11M |
| Series A | $1.8M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 9% |
| SaaS | 5 | 7% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 7% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 7% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 34% |
| Series A | 16 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 9% |
| Series B | 4 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 25 | 37% |
| United States | 7 | 10% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Hsu | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-hsu |
| Chintaka Ranatunga | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chintaka-ranatunga |
| John Kells | Co-Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-kells-9f2d |
| Vignesh Kumar | Co-Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vignesh-kumar-178b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Outlier Space | 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 |  |
| Caruso | 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 | NextWork is developing the world's greatest online learning experience for switching careers. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Ivo | 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 | 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 | 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 | Polymath is an app designed specifically for children that makes screen time fun, productive, and healthy. | $859.7K | Pre-Seed | Feb 17, 2025 |  |
| Ivo | 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 |  |
| EarnOS | EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3. | $5M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 68 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Global from Day One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-from-day-one-gd1) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [New Zealand Growth Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-growth-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Nuance Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuance-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does GD1 (Global From Day One) invest in?

GD1 (Global From Day One) invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 68 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GD1 (Global From Day One)'s check size?

GD1 (Global From Day One) typically joins rounds of $600k–$8.2M at Seed, $860k–$11M at Pre-Seed and $1.8M–$16M 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 GD1 (Global From Day One) participates in.

### How do I contact GD1 (Global From Day One)?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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