Global from Day One

Global From Day One is a New Zealand-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies, from seed to scale. Established in Auckland, the company manages multiple funds, with a focus on investing in New Zealand-based startups. Their investment portfolio spans across various sectors, including software, SaaS, marketing tech, TMT, business products and services, energy, financial services, healthcare, information technology, material and resources, health tech, and more. The firm not only provides capital but also offers operational support to portfolio companies, assisting with product development, growth strategies, and human resources.

Nawaz Ahmed

General Partner

Vignesh Kumar

Co-Managing Partner

28 past transactions

Alimetry

Series A in 2024
Alimetry is a health technology startup located in Auckland, New Zealand, focused on creating innovative solutions for diagnosing gastrointestinal disorders. The company has developed a symptom-tracking and real-time gastric mapping monitoring device that investigates gastric function. This device detects the underlying motility of the stomach, helping to identify the causes of common symptoms such as abdominal pain, indigestion, nausea, and vomiting. By enabling patients to better understand their gastrointestinal health, Alimetry aims to enhance the overall care and management of GI disorders.

eVouch

Pre Seed Round in 2022
eVouch is a company that helps businesses transform their customers into brand advocates by incentivizing them to share their experiences with their personal networks. Through its marketplace restaurant referral platform, eVouch enhances marketing efforts by enabling users to discover local restaurants. Customers can receive discounts in exchange for posting about their dining experiences on social media, with their posts authenticated through the app. This approach allows businesses to increase their exposure and drive revenue growth while leveraging the power of social media marketing.

Flowingly

Seed Round in 2022
Flowingly is a developer of a mapping and automation platform that aims to enhance employee and customer experiences through digital automation. The platform enables businesses to streamline their processes by offering user-friendly features such as drag-and-drop process modeling, dashboard navigation, digital to-do lists, deadline reminders, real-time progress tracking, and reporting. This allows teams to map and automate various business processes efficiently, fostering collaboration across different departments without requiring a dedicated team of developers. Flowingly seeks to replace manual, paper-based systems, facilitating a quicker and easier transformation of organizational workflows.

Formus

Seed Round in 2022
Formus specializes in personalized orthopedics by leveraging artificial intelligence and computational biomechanics to enhance pre-operative planning for joint replacement surgeries. With a foundation in two decades of musculoskeletal research, the company has developed a 3D planning platform that is FDA, PMDA, and TGA cleared, successfully planning over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries across more than 25 locations in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. By collaborating with implant manufacturers, Formus integrates its technology into existing medical workflows, aiming to reduce costs while improving the reliability and scalability of orthopedic procedures. Its innovative approach allows surgeons to tailor surgical plans to the individual needs of patients, ultimately enhancing surgical outcomes and advancing the field of orthopedics.

Runn

Seed Round in 2021
Runn, based in Wellington, New Zealand, specializes in Software-as-a-Service resource planning and forecasting solutions tailored for project-based businesses. Founded in 2018, Runn's platform enables project managers to effectively plan, track, and forecast staffing capacities and capabilities. Its cloud-based software offers features such as capacity planning, resourcing, project management, and financial forecasting, along with tools for scenario planning that help users assess the impact of new work on resources and financial outcomes. Runn's solutions facilitate a comprehensive view of ongoing projects and team member allocations, allowing managers to identify overbooking and resolve resource conflicts. By optimizing workloads and improving visibility across projects, Runn aims to enhance operational efficiency and support timely project delivery.

Junofem

Seed Round in 2021
Junofem is a company focused on improving women's pelvic floor health through a tech-enabled medical device. This wearable device is designed to monitor and train pelvic floor muscles by measuring the pressure profile of the vagina. By transforming the approach to pelvic floor health, Junofem enables women to effectively perform pelvic floor exercises, which can help alleviate symptoms of urinary incontinence.

Dawn Aerospace

Venture Round in 2021
Dawn Aerospace is a company that designs and manufactures reusable spacecraft and non-toxic propulsion systems for satellites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Delft, Netherlands, with facilities in Auckland, New Zealand, Dawn Aerospace focuses on developing same-day reusable launch vehicles that integrate with conventional aircraft, allowing for frequent and routine launches similar to commercial aviation. Their product line includes the MK-1, MK-2, MK-3, and MK-4 vehicles. In addition, the company offers high-performance propulsion systems that replace toxic fuels, like hydrazine, with safer alternatives, enhancing capabilities for satellites of various sizes, including CubeSats. By combining these technologies, Dawn Aerospace aims to create a scalable and environmentally friendly architecture for satellite delivery, positioning, and return.

Qotient

Convertible Note in 2020
Qotient Group Limited offers a cloud-based sales acceleration platform designed to enhance sales conversations and improve overall sales effectiveness. Founded in 2013 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Qotient provides a comprehensive sales platform that includes a library of real-time sales conversations, insights, questions, and marketing collateral accessible on any device. This innovative platform serves as the first and only channel platform of its kind, equipping vendors with essential tools and analytics to effectively forecast and manage their entire channel network. By delivering scalable sales conversations and comprehensive data, Qotient enables users to quickly build, distribute, and measure sales campaigns, significantly reducing the time required to execute sales strategies.

Qotient

Series A in 2019
Qotient Group Limited offers a cloud-based sales acceleration platform designed to enhance sales conversations and improve overall sales effectiveness. Founded in 2013 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Qotient provides a comprehensive sales platform that includes a library of real-time sales conversations, insights, questions, and marketing collateral accessible on any device. This innovative platform serves as the first and only channel platform of its kind, equipping vendors with essential tools and analytics to effectively forecast and manage their entire channel network. By delivering scalable sales conversations and comprehensive data, Qotient enables users to quickly build, distribute, and measure sales campaigns, significantly reducing the time required to execute sales strategies.

San Draw

Series A in 2019
San Draw, founded in 2014 by Stanford University alumni Gary Chang and Michael Lu, specializes in advanced three-dimensional printing technology. The company has developed FAM Technology, which allows for full-color, adjustable-hardness, and multi-material printing. This innovative technology is designed for a range of applications, including custom fabrication in the food and medical sectors. San Draw's 3D printer enables high levels of product customization, catering to the specific needs of its clients.

Qotient

Series A in 2018
Qotient Group Limited offers a cloud-based sales acceleration platform designed to enhance sales conversations and improve overall sales effectiveness. Founded in 2013 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Qotient provides a comprehensive sales platform that includes a library of real-time sales conversations, insights, questions, and marketing collateral accessible on any device. This innovative platform serves as the first and only channel platform of its kind, equipping vendors with essential tools and analytics to effectively forecast and manage their entire channel network. By delivering scalable sales conversations and comprehensive data, Qotient enables users to quickly build, distribute, and measure sales campaigns, significantly reducing the time required to execute sales strategies.

Shuttlerock

Series B in 2017
Shuttlerock Ltd. is a New Zealand-based company that specializes in a crowd-sourced content platform designed for websites. Established in 2011, it enables users to collect, curate, and share user-generated content while aggregating social media content to enhance audience engagement and drive conversions. The company's proprietary platform focuses on mobile-first creative solutions, allowing for the rapid creation of high-performance mobile video ads from a single visual asset, such as a still photo. Shuttlerock serves a diverse clientele across various sectors, including brands, e-commerce, entertainment, media, sports, and tourism, with operations in New Zealand, the United States, and Japan. Additionally, Shuttlerock offers expertise in digital marketing strategies and is recognized as a marketing partner for major platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Wipster

Seed Round in 2017
Wipster Inc operates a digital media review and approval platform designed for content creators and media teams. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Wipster facilitates collaboration on work-in-progress videos, images, and PDFs. The platform enables users to encode videos, set up multiple teams, and manage user permissions, while also supporting real-time review cycles. Additionally, Wipster provides integration options with other software commonly used by content creators, allowing for streamlined workflows. The platform stores video revisions in a shared multimedia asset library and assists in publishing content across various tools, helping teams efficiently create, review, and approve media projects. Wipster Inc functions as a subsidiary of WIP APP Limited.

Qotient

Convertible Note in 2017
Qotient Group Limited offers a cloud-based sales acceleration platform designed to enhance sales conversations and improve overall sales effectiveness. Founded in 2013 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Qotient provides a comprehensive sales platform that includes a library of real-time sales conversations, insights, questions, and marketing collateral accessible on any device. This innovative platform serves as the first and only channel platform of its kind, equipping vendors with essential tools and analytics to effectively forecast and manage their entire channel network. By delivering scalable sales conversations and comprehensive data, Qotient enables users to quickly build, distribute, and measure sales campaigns, significantly reducing the time required to execute sales strategies.

Mish Guru

Seed Round in 2016
Mish Guru Limited is a marketing technology company based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializing in online tools for posting, tracking, and engaging with audiences on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. Founded in 2014, Mish Guru offers a comprehensive storytelling suite that enhances a brand's content capabilities, enabling marketers to efficiently manage and analyze their social media campaigns. The company's platform allows users to rebroadcast crowd-sourced content during live events and campaigns, fostering greater engagement. By transitioning content consumption from mobile devices to desktop, Mish Guru provides valuable analytics that help marketers assess campaign performance and refine future strategies.

Viscovery

Venture Round in 2016
Viscovery is a prominent Vision Artificial Intelligence company that specializes in deep learning and computer vision technologies. Founded in 2013, it offers innovative image and video recognition solutions tailored for enterprises across various sectors, including Smart Retail, Smart E-Commerce, and Smart Media. The company’s cloud-based platform enables mobile visual search services, allowing users to extract valuable information from digital images and videos. Viscovery has formed strategic partnerships with major technology firms and received international recognition and investment from notable organizations. With a dedicated research and development team based in Taipei, composed of experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Viscovery focuses on providing customized recognition solutions to meet the evolving needs of its clients.

Spotlight Reporting

Series A in 2016
Spotlight Reporting Limited specializes in providing cloud-based business intelligence tools tailored for accountants, business owners, franchises, and not-for-profit organizations. Established in 2003 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, the company offers a suite of products, including Spotlight Reporting for detailed performance analysis, Spotlight Dashboard for resilience and performance reporting, and Spotlight Forecasting, which features an all-in-one tool for predictive analytics. Additionally, Spotlight Multi caters to multi-entity organizations by facilitating consolidated views, key performance indicators, and exception reporting. The software is designed to streamline financial reporting processes by integrating with various financial and non-financial systems, enabling clients to generate dashboards, reports, and forecasts efficiently. Spotlight Reporting has expanded its presence with offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, California, and Canada.

Qotient

Seed Round in 2016
Qotient Group Limited offers a cloud-based sales acceleration platform designed to enhance sales conversations and improve overall sales effectiveness. Founded in 2013 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Qotient provides a comprehensive sales platform that includes a library of real-time sales conversations, insights, questions, and marketing collateral accessible on any device. This innovative platform serves as the first and only channel platform of its kind, equipping vendors with essential tools and analytics to effectively forecast and manage their entire channel network. By delivering scalable sales conversations and comprehensive data, Qotient enables users to quickly build, distribute, and measure sales campaigns, significantly reducing the time required to execute sales strategies.

Mish Guru

Angel Round in 2015
Mish Guru Limited is a marketing technology company based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializing in online tools for posting, tracking, and engaging with audiences on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. Founded in 2014, Mish Guru offers a comprehensive storytelling suite that enhances a brand's content capabilities, enabling marketers to efficiently manage and analyze their social media campaigns. The company's platform allows users to rebroadcast crowd-sourced content during live events and campaigns, fostering greater engagement. By transitioning content consumption from mobile devices to desktop, Mish Guru provides valuable analytics that help marketers assess campaign performance and refine future strategies.

Glassjar

Seed Round in 2014
Glassjar designs and develops software that enables its users to manage their flat's shared expenses. They offer a software product that enables its users to keep track of their flat's expenses, including their flat account, flatmates, and payments. They offer a dashboard that provides an overview of its flat accounts, such as how much is available to spend, each person’s ledger, and summaries of their previous spending.

APIMatic

Seed Round in 2014
APIMatic Ltd. is a developer experience platform based in Auckland, New Zealand, that specializes in enhancing the productivity of developers through automatic code generation for APIs. Founded in 2010, the company provides tools that enable users to create, import, validate, and generate Software Development Kits (SDKs) for REST APIs. APIMatic's platform allows API providers to generate SDKs quickly and cost-effectively, while also producing succinct and error-free documentation that includes dynamic screenshots and code snippets tailored to each API. The company offers a range of components, including an API editor and transformer, that streamline the process of API consumption and integration. By facilitating collaboration and sharing among team members, APIMatic aims to simplify the development workflow and improve the overall developer experience.

QuiverVision

Seed Round in 2014
QuiverVision Limited, based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in developing augmented reality applications that enhance educational experiences for children. Founded in 2012, the company is known for its flagship app, Quiver, which transforms traditional coloring activities into interactive learning experiences. By combining augmented reality technology with educational coloring pages, Quiver engages children from Pre K to Year 6, allowing their creativity to flourish while learning about a wide range of topics. As users color their pages, the app brings their artwork to life, fostering a sense of ownership and pride. QuiverVision aims to make lessons interactive and memorable, supporting skill development and knowledge retention in an exciting and immersive way.

Texus Fibre

Seed Round in 2013
Texus Fibre creates value for manufacturers by providing branded, high performance ingredient materials that harness the superb characteristics of natural wool.

Puteko

Seed Round in 2013
Puteko was founded in 2012 as a spin-off company of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand. We produce both branded content and the technology to transform that content into personalized, immersive experiences. With the colAR Mix app, users can download branded artwork, color it in, and then bring it to life via interactive, three-dimensional, personalized animations. The app is available for free on iTunes, the Apple App Store, and the Google Play store. For more information, go to http://www.colarmix.com.

Footfalls & Heartbeats

Seed Round in 2013
Footfalls & Heartbeats Ltd., based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in developing and manufacturing intelligent textiles that function as sensors. Founded in 2010 by chemist Simon McMaster, the company focuses on a diverse range of applications, including wound care, compression garments, infant and athlete monitoring, and remote health monitoring in high-risk environments. Their proprietary technology allows fabrics to measure tensile and compressive forces, as well as temperature, with potential expansions to include tracking movement and bio-electrical outputs. This innovative approach not only supports healthcare and athletic performance but also offers applications in aerospace and automotive industries by monitoring structural integrity in composite materials. Footfalls & Heartbeats aims to deliver durable, safe, and comfortable fabrics that can provide valuable data to enhance health outcomes, thereby addressing the growing demand for intelligent fabrics in the global market. The company is led by Brent Ogilvie and supported by a team of experienced directors and investors, actively seeking commercial partners to expand its impact across various sectors.

HydrOxSys

Seed Round in 2012
HydrOxSys Limited, founded in June 2012 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in the development of durable membranes designed to extract water from contaminated sources. The company's innovative technology focuses on dense film asymmetric membranes, which are particularly effective in harsh, remote, and unsupervised environments. HydrOxSys aims to provide scalable and cost-effective solutions for water purification that exclude harmful substances such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors, while maintaining a high water flux output. As global demand for advanced water extraction methods grows, the company is committed to delivering revolutionary technologies that address the needs of businesses and local governments alike.

Mobotech

Seed Round in 2012
Mobotech designs and manufactures robotic handling solutions for commercial applications. Its first product, Mobot, fills the gap between hand barrow and forklift. Due to health and safety constraints trucks doing deliveries of FMCG products are only running with 60% capacity. Its customers are large FMCG distributors/logistics companies. This disruptive technology gives logistics companies a ROI in less than 3 months. The Mobot is a patented small robotic forklift: offering more cost effective & safer distribution logistics for the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), light industry, container de-stuffing and military industries. They are a New Zealand registered (2519891) Limited Company exporting to Australia, North America and Europe.
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