# Vignesh Kumar

> Vignesh Kumar is a Series A investor at Global from Day One backing Software and Manufacturing. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Global from Day One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-from-day-one-gd1)
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarvi/

Vignesh Kumar is a Series A investor at Global from Day One in Auckland focused on Software and Manufacturing. Vignesh Kumar is the Co-Managing Partner at GD1.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 16% |
| Medical Device | 3 | 16% |
| Energy | 2 | 11% |
| Medical | 2 | 11% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 37% |
| Seed | 6 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 11 | 58% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |

## 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Zenno Astronautics | Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space. |  | Seed | Nov 29, 2024 |  |
| Alimetry | 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 |  |
| Type One Energy | Type One Energy is a fusion power system developer whose goal is to provide clean fusion power to cities. Through innovations in high-temp superconducting magnets and additive manufacturing, the company's system connects the compact, cost-effective stellarator fusion power plant to the grid, allowing people to access power when it is needed. | $53.5M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Basis | Osho by radically altering how energy services are provided to people, it will be feasible to lower household prices and speed efforts to mitigate climate change. They are creating hardware with a system that will serve as the foundation for the development of the electrical sector. | $15.9M | Series A | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $3.2M | Seed | Nov 22, 2023 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Uniservices](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uniservices) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [New Zealand Growth Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-growth-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Movac](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/movac) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Global from Day One

VC Fund · Auckland, New Zealand

Global from Day One they invest from seed to scale and provide operational support across product, growth, and HR.

4 contacts available at Global from Day One.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heather Gadonniex | CMO Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-gadonniex |
| Chintaka Ranatunga | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chintaka-ranatunga |
| Nawaz Ahmed | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nawaz-ahmed |
| Vignesh Kumar | Co-Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vignesh-kumar-d8e6 |

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## FAQ

### What does Vignesh Kumar invest in?

Vignesh Kumar invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Medical Device startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Vignesh Kumar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vignesh Kumar closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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