GD1
gd1.vc Direct + LP
GD1 is a New Zealand-based venture capital firm that invests early in New Zealand founders building global companies. It operates as a generalist fund with specialist partners across five investment theses, and also offers investment funds for wholesale investors.
GD1 is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, founded in 2012. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to Series B, in frontier Energy + Industrial, new Space Economy, human Health and next Gen AI Software. C. $250m AUM under management and 24 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We write first cheques at pre-seed, lead rounds at Series A, and follow on through Series B.”
— GD1, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- Frontier Energy + Industrial, New Space Economy, Human Health, Next Gen AI Software, Financial Infrastructure
- Founded
- 2012
- Assets under management
- C. $250m AUM
- Portfolio
- 24 companies
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 2 co-investors found.
- Archetype Management LLC 1 shared company: opacity.network
- Escape Velocity (EV3) 1 shared company: opacity.network
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page GD1 publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.gd1.vc/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.gd1.vc/invest-with-uslayer, founded, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.gd1.vc/teampeople
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Record 660 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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