Stuart Gardner
Space Network at Space Network
Stuart Gardner
Space Network at Space Network
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Space Network
2024 - Current
Connecting the unconnected.
Tinkering and angel investing
2015
Quarter life crisis, minus the divorce and the sports car. Investing in startups. Geographically agnostic (~175 investments across 20+ countries and 5 continents, though concentrated in Europe and the US). Sector agnostic / jack of all trades (B2B, B2C, hardware, software, prop-tech, health/med-tech, fin-tech, sex-tech, clean/green/eco-tech, pet-tech, music-tech (all the techs...), crypto/blockchain, transport, IoT, nuclear, space). Typically investing along the seed stage -- pre seed, seed, seed extensions, pre-series A bridge rounds. ~30% of the portfolio have a female (co)founder, and ~50% have a (co)founder of colour.
Angel investing
2018
Assist Ventures is the holding name for the investments I make with Tom James. We typically invest £/$/€ 25-50k into early stage technology companies, and a number of our portfolio companies have had successful exits at trade sale and at IPO. We are sector and geography agnostic, and typically invest at pre seed and seed.
Ironhack
2017 - 2017
Full-stack coding bootcamp, focused on Javascript. Junior full-stack developer. Vue.js, Node.js, Express, GitHub, HTML, CSS.
OWLR
2016 - 2017
Building the operating system for smart home security cameras. OWLR connects to more than 1M cameras and has the industry's highest iOS and Play store ratings (sorry, Nest...) Part of the #500Startups family.
Director
2014 - 2016
Ecommerce development and marketing agency, working with a range of brands, including Soho House Group, Fenwick, and Joseph, and a number of fast growing SMEs .
Commercial Team
2014 - 2014
Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Working with the ODI's commercial team as part of my work at Chinwag.
Partnerships, Sponsorships, general dogsbody
2013 - 2014
Part of team organising Social Media Week London, along with organising government sponsored 'Missions' to introduce UK startups to partners and investors in the Bay Area, China and Hong Kong.
Founding team, everything non-dev.
2009 - 2012
Acquired by King.com (Candy Crush, NYSE).
Education
Judge Business School
2008 - 2009
BA (Hons)
2004 - 2007