INNOVATION PNG 2025

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Vignesh Kumar


Co-Managing Partner, GD1

Vignesh Kumar is a Co-Managing Partner at New Zealand-based venture capital firm GD1. At GD1, Vignesh focuses on emerging technology, where he is an investor in, and board member of, several innovative companies. Prior to GD1, and after successfully overcoming his own 9-month battle with blood cancer, he co-founded Journey Health, a digital health patient-reported outcomes platform for oncology care. Prior to this, Vignesh was based in Cupertino and led hardware execution for Apple across the US and Asia for its portable line of products, and was a product design engineer at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare. A native of India, Vignesh grew up across Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Auckland, New Zealand.

At Innovation PNG 2025, Vignesh will be talking about financing innovation and how PNG entrepreneurs can get their ideas "investor-ready".


Download Vignesh's presentation slides here (PDF)


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