GD1

GD1 is a New Zealand‑based venture capital firm that invests in early‑stage companies with global ambitions. It offers capital, operational expertise, and access to an international network to help founders scale beyond their local markets.

John Kells

Co-Managing Partner

Vignesh Kumar

Co-Managing Partner

42 past transactions

Ivo

Series A in 2025
Ivo is a company that specializes in developing a generative AI contracting assistant aimed at enhancing the efficiency of legal teams. Its platform streamlines the contracting process by automating the creation of contracts, facilitating approvals, and expediting the signing process. By leveraging advanced technology, Ivo enables legal teams to significantly reduce the time, effort, and costs associated with negotiating agreements. The company's innovative approach allows businesses to improve productivity and minimize delays in contract management, making it a valuable resource for organizations seeking to optimize their legal operations.

EarnOS

Seed Round in 2025
EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.

Auror

Series C in 2024
Auror Limited is a crime prevention technology company that offers a platform designed to enhance incident reporting for businesses and law enforcement agencies. The platform allows for the electronic reporting of various incidents, including shoplifting and fraud, and consolidates information and evidence in a single location. This capability enables law enforcement to identify crime trends, connect patterns related to repeat offenders and organized crime, and respond to real-time intelligence to improve crime prevention strategies. Auror’s solution also provides real-time alerts to store managers and security personnel, facilitating informed decision-making and maximizing the return on investment for security measures. Founded in 2012 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Auror has expanded its presence with offices in Denver and Melbourne to support a growing global retail clientele. The company was previously known as Eyedentify Limited until its rebranding in 2015.

Type One Energy

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2019 by renowned fusion scientists and business leaders, Type One Energy is dedicated to delivering sustainable and affordable fusion power globally. The company employs advanced manufacturing methods, computational physics, and high-field superconducting magnets to develop its optimized stellarator fusion energy system. Its FusionDirect program aims for a low-risk, efficient path to a fusion power plant within the next decade.

Layer3

Series A in 2024
Layer3 is a web3 user acquisition and retention platform founded in 2021 that provides no-code tools to design milestones for on-chain actions, using bounties and quests to drive onboarding and engagement. The platform supports autonomous ecosystem expansion through interoperable identity and amplified incentives, helping users discover new communities, earn rewards, and access multichain liquidity. Layer3 has driven over 10 million on-chain interactions across leading dapps and serves a growing roster of crypto projects including Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave and 1inch.

NextWork

Pre Seed Round in 2024
NextWork is developing an online learning platform focused on technical skills such as Salesforce, AWS, and Azure certifications. Additionally, it offers courses in complementary areas like business development and retail, allowing students to learn at their own pace and pursue desired job opportunities.

VXT

Seed Round in 2024
VXT Limited, established in 2018 and headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand, specializes in developing voice message management tools for businesses. The company offers a suite of services including email forwarding, smart voicemail greetings, and enhanced security features. VXT's platform enables users to make phone calls, host video calls, engage in internal team chats, and utilizes AI tools to convert voicemails into text messages, streamlining communication processes for industries such as recruitment and legal sectors by automating tasks like message prioritization.

Ivo

Seed Round in 2024
Ivo is a company that specializes in developing a generative AI contracting assistant aimed at enhancing the efficiency of legal teams. Its platform streamlines the contracting process by automating the creation of contracts, facilitating approvals, and expediting the signing process. By leveraging advanced technology, Ivo enables legal teams to significantly reduce the time, effort, and costs associated with negotiating agreements. The company's innovative approach allows businesses to improve productivity and minimize delays in contract management, making it a valuable resource for organizations seeking to optimize their legal operations.

Rilla

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Rilla is building the content economy by directing a greater share of value to creators and their communities through leveraging audience bandwidth and granting ownership in the network. It develops a decentralized live-streaming protocol with a globally distributed network, combining blockchain technology and AI to deliver secure, transparent, low-latency streaming while prioritizing data privacy and trustless interactions. The platform enables independent creators to monetize and exercise more control over their work within a privacy-conscious infrastructure.

Caruso

Seed Round in 2023
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, and everything in between.

Simfuni

Series A in 2023
Simfuni is a cloud-based service that orchestrates the fragmented and labour-intensive processes of insurance invoicing, premium funding and payments into one simple digital payment platform that integrates into any workflow. It helps insurance brokers make sales more easily and drive operational efficiencies. The data flows through the Revenue Control Hub™ which enables real-time visibility and management of revenue and growth. A self-service portal allows policy holders to view and manage their payments whenever they want, improving the customer experience and freeing up brokers time. Simfuni empowers insurance brokers to succeed by increasing their revenue and customer satisfaction, providing solutions that will be music to their ears.

Formus

Convertible Note in 2023
Formus is a technology company focused on enhancing personalized orthopedics through advanced AI and computational biomechanics. Founded on two decades of research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, the company has developed a 3D pre-operative planning platform that is cleared by regulatory agencies in key markets. This technology has been utilized in over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries across more than 25 medical facilities in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. Formus's platform utilizes an interactive, AI-driven system to customize workflows for orthopedic procedures, allowing for precise selection and placement of implants tailored to individual patients. By collaborating with implant manufacturers and integrating with existing industry workflows, Formus aims to improve surgical outcomes while enhancing efficiency and scalability in orthopedic practices.

Dawn Aerospace

Series A in 2022
Dawn Aerospace designs and manufactures reusable spacecraft and launch systems to enable frequent, sustainable access to space. The company develops same-day reusable launch vehicles that can operate with ordinary airspace and aircraft, without specialized space-launch infrastructure, and non-toxic, storable propulsion systems for satellites of all sizes, including CubeSats, offering higher performance while reducing reliance on toxic fuels. Dawn aims to provide end-to-end space transportation capabilities for deployment, positioning and return of spacecraft in a scalable, environmentally conscious manner. Founded in 2016, Dawn is based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, with research, manufacturing and testing facilities in Auckland and Delft.

StretchSense

Series A in 2022
StretchSense is a developer of innovative sensor-based products focused on capturing hand data for high-quality animations. The company specializes in MoCap Pro gloves, which utilize advanced stretch sensor technology to provide robust, accurate, and comfortable performance capture. These gloves are designed with soft capacitors that measure changes in shape when stretched or squeezed, facilitating precise finger tracking. This capability is essential for animators, game developers, and film studios seeking to create lifelike animations. Additionally, StretchSense offers a proprietary software application, Hand Engine, that allows users to stream hand motion capture data to leading platforms such as Maya, Unreal Engine, and Unity, as well as integrate with optical systems like OptiTrack, Qualisys, and Vicon.

eVouch

Seed Round in 2022
eVouch is a company that operates a marketplace restaurant referral platform aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness through social media engagement. The platform enables users to discover nearby restaurants and, in return for discounts, share their dining experiences on their social networks. This process is facilitated by the app, which authenticates and stamps the posts, thereby helping businesses increase their visibility and attract new customers. By incentivizing customers to share their experiences, eVouch transforms them into brand advocates, ultimately driving revenue growth for participating restaurants in a cost-effective manner.

Ivo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ivo is a company that specializes in developing a generative AI contracting assistant aimed at enhancing the efficiency of legal teams. Its platform streamlines the contracting process by automating the creation of contracts, facilitating approvals, and expediting the signing process. By leveraging advanced technology, Ivo enables legal teams to significantly reduce the time, effort, and costs associated with negotiating agreements. The company's innovative approach allows businesses to improve productivity and minimize delays in contract management, making it a valuable resource for organizations seeking to optimize their legal operations.

Easy Crypto

Series A in 2022
Easy Crypto operates a retail platform for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies. Users maintain control over their assets throughout the process, ensuring no risk when directly transacting digital assets.

Zenno Astronautics

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2017, Zenno Astronautics specializes in developing and manufacturing propulsion systems for small satellites. Its flagship product, Z01, utilizes superconducting technologies to meet demanding satellite positioning requirements, enabling efficient mission management and maximizing commercial returns.

VXT

Pre Seed Round in 2022
VXT Limited, established in 2018 and headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand, specializes in developing voice message management tools for businesses. The company offers a suite of services including email forwarding, smart voicemail greetings, and enhanced security features. VXT's platform enables users to make phone calls, host video calls, engage in internal team chats, and utilizes AI tools to convert voicemails into text messages, streamlining communication processes for industries such as recruitment and legal sectors by automating tasks like message prioritization.

Flowingly

Seed Round in 2022
Flowingly is a company that specializes in a mapping and automation platform aimed at enhancing employee and customer experiences through digital transformation. The platform allows users to effortlessly model business processes using a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, enabling teams to create and automate workflows without requiring technical expertise. Key features include digital to-do lists, deadline reminders, real-time progress tracking, and comprehensive reporting, which facilitate collaboration across various departments and streamline operations. By alleviating the challenges associated with manual processes and paper-based systems, Flowingly empowers organizations to optimize their workflows and improve overall efficiency.

Formus

Seed Round in 2022
Formus is a technology company focused on enhancing personalized orthopedics through advanced AI and computational biomechanics. Founded on two decades of research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, the company has developed a 3D pre-operative planning platform that is cleared by regulatory agencies in key markets. This technology has been utilized in over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries across more than 25 medical facilities in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. Formus's platform utilizes an interactive, AI-driven system to customize workflows for orthopedic procedures, allowing for precise selection and placement of implants tailored to individual patients. By collaborating with implant manufacturers and integrating with existing industry workflows, Formus aims to improve surgical outcomes while enhancing efficiency and scalability in orthopedic practices.

Runn

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, Runn specializes in Software-as-a-Service resource planning and forecasting software. Its platform enables project managers to efficiently plan, track, and forecast staffing capacity and capability, optimizing workloads and avoiding bottlenecks.

Auror

Series B in 2021
Auror Limited is a crime prevention technology company that offers a platform designed to enhance incident reporting for businesses and law enforcement agencies. The platform allows for the electronic reporting of various incidents, including shoplifting and fraud, and consolidates information and evidence in a single location. This capability enables law enforcement to identify crime trends, connect patterns related to repeat offenders and organized crime, and respond to real-time intelligence to improve crime prevention strategies. Auror’s solution also provides real-time alerts to store managers and security personnel, facilitating informed decision-making and maximizing the return on investment for security measures. Founded in 2012 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, Auror has expanded its presence with offices in Denver and Melbourne to support a growing global retail clientele. The company was previously known as Eyedentify Limited until its rebranding in 2015.

Foundry Lab

Series A in 2021
Foundry Lab is a digital metal casting company that specializes in innovative microwave casting technology, allowing for same-day turnaround of metal castings. The company has developed a software tool that automatically generates dense metal parts from computer-aided design files, ensuring that these parts maintain the same physical properties as traditionally cast metal. This technology provides a push-button, hands-free manufacturing process, enabling manufacturers to produce on-demand, high-quality metal components with significantly reduced costs, time, and environmental impact compared to conventional foundry methods.

Osho

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Junofem

Seed Round in 2021
Junofem develops a wearable medical device that monitors and trains pelvic floor muscles. Its innovative technology measures vaginal pressure profiles, empowering women to effectively perform pelvic floor exercises and alleviate urinary incontinence symptoms.

Ubco

Series B in 2021
Ubco is a New Zealand-based company that designs, develops, and manufactures utility electric vehicles and portable power solutions for on- and off-road use. It offers dual electric-drive off-road motorbikes and a range of utility electric vehicles and portable power products for agricultural, commercial, and recreational applications. Ubco serves customers through a network of dealers and representatives in New Zealand and Australia and also sells online. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tauranga, Ubco provides a digitally connected utility electric vehicle platform that combines transport, portable power, accessories, and software, enabling farmers, conservationists, tourism operators, and delivery fleets to monitor performance and manage workflows from a single system.

Ubco

Venture Round in 2021
Ubco is a New Zealand-based company that designs, develops, and manufactures utility electric vehicles and portable power solutions for on- and off-road use. It offers dual electric-drive off-road motorbikes and a range of utility electric vehicles and portable power products for agricultural, commercial, and recreational applications. Ubco serves customers through a network of dealers and representatives in New Zealand and Australia and also sells online. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tauranga, Ubco provides a digitally connected utility electric vehicle platform that combines transport, portable power, accessories, and software, enabling farmers, conservationists, tourism operators, and delivery fleets to monitor performance and manage workflows from a single system.

Shuttlerock

Series A in 2021
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.

Vesper Marine

Series B in 2020
Vesper Marine Ltd. is a manufacturer of marine safety products specializing in the automatic identification system (AIS) for the marine electronics industry. The company, incorporated in 2007 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, develops a variety of communication solutions for both recreational and commercial vessels. Its product offerings include WatchMate transponders, receivers, displays, GPS sensors, and AIS/VHF antenna splitters, as well as the advanced Cortex system, which integrates a VHF radio with smartAIS transponder technology for enhanced vessel monitoring. Vesper Marine's smartAIS transponders feature built-in alarms to notify mariners of potential collisions, dragging anchors, or man overboard situations. The company's products are distributed through a global network of partners across various countries, including Australia, the United States, and several European nations, catering to a diverse clientele that ranges from sailing and power boats to workboats and charter services.

StretchSense

Series A in 2019
StretchSense is a developer of innovative sensor-based products focused on capturing hand data for high-quality animations. The company specializes in MoCap Pro gloves, which utilize advanced stretch sensor technology to provide robust, accurate, and comfortable performance capture. These gloves are designed with soft capacitors that measure changes in shape when stretched or squeezed, facilitating precise finger tracking. This capability is essential for animators, game developers, and film studios seeking to create lifelike animations. Additionally, StretchSense offers a proprietary software application, Hand Engine, that allows users to stream hand motion capture data to leading platforms such as Maya, Unreal Engine, and Unity, as well as integrate with optical systems like OptiTrack, Qualisys, and Vicon.

San Draw

Series A in 2019
San Draw, founded in 2014 by Stanford University alumni Gary Chang and Michael Lu, is a provider of advanced three-dimensional printing technology designed for custom fabrication across various sectors, including food and medical applications. The company has developed FAM Technology, which stands for full-color, adjustable-hardness, and multi-material capabilities. This innovative technology enables clients to produce highly customized products, enhancing the versatility and functionality of 3D printing solutions.

Mish Guru

Series A in 2018
Mish Guru Limited is a web-based marketing platform that specializes in providing tools for brands, agencies, and artists to post, track, and engage with audiences on Snapchat and Instagram Stories. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the company offers a comprehensive storytelling suite that enhances a brand’s content capabilities. Mish Guru's services are available through a software as a service model and on a campaign basis, allowing marketers to utilize existing creation tools while transitioning content consumption from mobile to desktop. This approach enables the provision of robust analytics to demonstrate campaign return on investment, as well as deeper insights into content performance. By rebroadcasting crowd-sourced snaps during campaigns or live events, Mish Guru effectively drives engagement and fosters interaction with followers.

Wipster

Series A in 2018
Wipster operates a digital platform for content creators to share, review, and collaborate on work-in-progress videos, images, and PDFs. The platform facilitates real-time review cycles, team management, and integration with existing software tools.

Shuttlerock

Series A in 2018
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 operates a digital platform for content creators to share, review, and collaborate on work-in-progress videos, images, and PDFs. The platform facilitates real-time review cycles, team management, and integration with existing software tools.

Viscovery

Venture Round in 2016
Viscovery is a leading Vision Artificial Intelligence company specializing in Deep Learning and Computer Vision technology. Founded in 2013, the company offers revolutionary visual discovery services, providing image and video recognition solutions for various industries including Smart Retail, Smart E-Commerce, Smart Media, Augmented Reality, and Smart Factory. Viscovery has collaborated with major tech companies such as Intel, NVIDIA, and AWS, and received significant investment from entities like Alibaba, Quanta, CDIB, and H&Q. With a research and development team based in Taipei, comprising experts in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, Viscovery delivers customized recognition solutions tailored to enterprise needs.

Vesper Marine

Series A in 2016
Vesper Marine Ltd. is a manufacturer of marine safety products specializing in the automatic identification system (AIS) for the marine electronics industry. The company, incorporated in 2007 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, develops a variety of communication solutions for both recreational and commercial vessels. Its product offerings include WatchMate transponders, receivers, displays, GPS sensors, and AIS/VHF antenna splitters, as well as the advanced Cortex system, which integrates a VHF radio with smartAIS transponder technology for enhanced vessel monitoring. Vesper Marine's smartAIS transponders feature built-in alarms to notify mariners of potential collisions, dragging anchors, or man overboard situations. The company's products are distributed through a global network of partners across various countries, including Australia, the United States, and several European nations, catering to a diverse clientele that ranges from sailing and power boats to workboats and charter services.

Spotlight Reporting

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2003, Spotlight Reporting is a global provider of cloud-based business intelligence tools for accountants, advisors, and CFOs. The company offers integrated solutions including Spotlight Reporting for performance analysis, Spotlight Dashboard for resilience reporting, Spotlight Forecasting for predictive analytics, and Spotlight Multi for consolidated views across multi-entity organizations.

Orbica

Orbica offers a cloud-based geospatial platform that democratizes access to geospatial data and AI tools, empowering data practitioners beyond traditional GIS software users to tackle global challenges.

Buddy

Buddy is a digital platform that connects businesses in the metal recycling industry, streamlining the procurement process by facilitating direct, verified interactions between buyers and sellers.
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