Global from Day One
VC Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
Global from Day One is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Software and SaaS. Global from Day One they invest from seed to scale and provide operational support across product, growth, and HR.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $90M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Global from Day One invests in
Stages Global from Day One invests in
Countries Global from Day One invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $694k–$5M
- Series A
- $890k–$18M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (31%)
- SaaS 4 (11%)
- Manufacturing 4 (11%)
- Medical Device 4 (11%)
- Video 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (49%)
- Series A 5 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- New Zealand 14 (40%)
- United States 5 (14%)
- China 1 (3%)
- Japan 1 (3%)
- Taiwan 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Heather Gadonniex
CMO Operating Partner
|
CMO Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chintaka Ranatunga
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner and Co-Founder | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
|
Nawaz Ahmed
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Vignesh Kumar
Co-Managing Partner
|
Co-Managing Partner | Total investments: 19 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function. | $18M / Series A / Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| eVouch assists businesses in converting their customers into brand advocates by incentivizing them to share their experience with their personal networks in exchange for rewards. | $283.4K / Pre-Seed / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Unshackle your business from the burden of manually run business processes and paper based systems. Quickly and easily transform staff and customer experiences with digital automation. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 09, 2022 | ||
| Formus is enabling personalized orthopedics at scale through a fusion of AI-automation with computational biomechanics. Built on 20 years of musculoskeletal research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Formus 3D pre-op planning is FDA, PMDA, and TGA cleared, and has planned over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries at more than 25 sites acrossANZ, Japan, and the US. We are at the next frontier of orthopedics, combining AI-automation with patient-specific modelling of bony and soft-tissue to optimize joint replacement surgeries for each and every patient. Working in tandem with implant manufacturers, we integrate seamlessly into existing industry workflows to reduce costs and vastly increase reliability and scalability. Formus's unique capabilities empower surgeons to revolutionize personalized orthopedics at scale to improve the outcomes of every patient. | $5M / Seed / Feb 02, 2022 | ||
| Formus is enabling personalized orthopedics at scale through a fusion of AI-automation with computational biomechanics. Built on 20 years of musculoskeletal research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Formus 3D pre-op planning is FDA, PMDA, and TGA cleared, and has planned over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries at more than 25 sites acrossANZ, Japan, and the US. We are at the next frontier of orthopedics, combining AI-automation with patient-specific modelling of bony and soft-tissue to optimize joint replacement surgeries for each and every patient. Working in tandem with implant manufacturers, we integrate seamlessly into existing industry workflows to reduce costs and vastly increase reliability and scalability. Formus's unique capabilities empower surgeons to revolutionize personalized orthopedics at scale to improve the outcomes of every patient. | $5M / Seed / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Runn is a provider of real-time resource management and forecasting software for the modern workforce. It allows company project managers to plan, track, and forecast staffing capacity and capability. The company's cloud-based interface includes features that make dealing with complexity and change simple. A convenient scenario planningfeature enables users to quickly see how winning or losing new work will affect resourcing and the company's bottom line, or what skill sets a company may need to hire based on their future sales pipeline.Runn assists employers in understanding demand and available capacity, as well as the impact of project and milestone changes on their most valuable asset - their people. They can optimize individual and team workloads and avoid bottlenecks and delays that prevent them from doing better work. | $1.4M / Seed / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Junofem builds a tech-enabled medical device to help women improve their pelvic floor health. | $694.2K / Seed / Oct 11, 2021 | ||
| Based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, Dawn Aerospace is building same-day reusable launch vehicles and non-toxic satellite propulsion systems.Same-day Reusable Launch Vehicles that do not require specialised space-launch infrastructure, integrate with everyday aircraft in nearby airspace and launch as often and routinely as commercialaviation.Non-toxic high performance propulsion systems for satellites of all sizes. For small satellites, they simplify systems and replace the poisonous and highly-regulated fuel, hydrazine. For CubeSats, they increase capabilities by supplying 1,000x higher performance than electric-based propulsion systems.By building these technologies in tandem, Dawn is creating the end-to-end architecture required for delivering, positioning and returning spacecraft in a highly scalable and environmentally conscious way. | Seed / May 27, 2021 | ||
| The first and only channel platform of its kind, Qotient, provides vendors with the tools and analytics needed to best forecast and support their entire channel network. Through scalable quality sales conversations, data and intelligence provided around the conversation, and digital end-to-end pipeline management - your sales campaigns can bebuilt, distributed, and measured within hours, not days, quarters, or years. | Convertible Note / Jun 01, 2020 | ||
| The first and only channel platform of its kind, Qotient, provides vendors with the tools and analytics needed to best forecast and support their entire channel network. Through scalable quality sales conversations, data and intelligence provided around the conversation, and digital end-to-end pipeline management - your sales campaigns can bebuilt, distributed, and measured within hours, not days, quarters, or years. | Series A / Oct 01, 2019 | ||
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FAQ
What does Global from Day One invest in?
Global from Day One invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 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 Global from Day One invest in?
Global from Day One typically joins rounds of $694k–$5M at Seed and $890k–$18M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Global from Day One's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Global from Day One took part in.
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Who are the partners at Global from Day One?
The team at Global from Day One includes Heather Gadonniex (CMO Operating Partner), Chintaka Ranatunga (Managing Partner and Co-Founder) and Nawaz Ahmed (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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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