We are a New Zealand venture firm.

We back founders building companies that can win in the world's biggest markets. From the country we believe is one of the most underestimated places on earth to build a global business from.

6.1x

Ecosystem growth since 2019

Billion-dollar companies built

5.3M

The population that produced them

Source: NZGCP / Dealroom New Zealand Tech Ecosystem Report, 2025

The constraints of building here are not disadvantages. They are the reason the companies that succeed here are built differently.

A small domestic market

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Global from day one

Distance from capital

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Capital efficiency

A lean talent pool

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Disciplined teams

These companies are not global despite being from New Zealand. They are better because of it.

Dawn Aerospace

Christchurch

Redefining sustainable aviation

Foundry Lab

Wellington

Reinventing metal casting

Alimetry

Auckland

Changing how gastric disease is diagnosed

We back conviction before consensus. We make our own decisions, develop our own theses, and move when we believe. And we back the relationship, not the round. We are built to be the firm that stays, from the first cheque to the one that takes the company global.

We've been founders ourselves.

Every member of the GD1 investment team has built, operated, or scaled something. We have navigated product-market fit and made the hard calls that come with building from nothing. That lived experience is what makes us useful from day one, not just at board level, but in the room when it matters most.

A generalist fund with specialist partners.

We invest across five theses because New Zealand's best companies don't sort themselves by category. But our partnership brings real domain depth to every deal, across hardware, health, frontier technology, software, and financial infrastructure. Every founder gets a partner who has lived inside their industry, not just funded it.

We invest with conviction, across every stage.

We make our own decisions and move when we believe, not when the market tells us to. From the first cheque at pre-seed through to Series B, we are built for the founder relationship, not the round.