David Gardner
General Partner @ LVP
Richmond Upon Thames, United Kingdom
David Gardner is a seed investor at LVP in Richmond Upon Thames focused on Gaming and Mobile. DG is a co-founder and General Partner of LVP. He has over 30 years experience in the game sector.Former CEO & board director, Atari Previously EVP & COO, Worldwide Studios, Electronic Arts ("EA"). 25 years at EA including building EA Europe from 0 to $1bn in annual revenue. DG has spent his career working across SiliconValley and Europe. In 2007, David was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to industry, and in 2017 he was appointed BAFTA's first Vice President for Games.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries David Gardner invests in
Stages David Gardner invests in
Countries David Gardner invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $796k–$7M
- Series A
- $3.6M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 5 (29%)
- Mobile 4 (24%)
- Mobile Apps 4 (24%)
- Video Games 4 (24%)
- Analytics 2 (12%)
Country
- United States 5 (29%)
- United Kingdom 4 (24%)
- Finland 2 (12%)
- Turkey 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Rule is a fintech startup building a ‘save-to-win’ mobile game to combat the ‘ADHD tax’. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| Boby.ai develops artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for end users | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 15, 2025 | ||
| Singularity 6 is a game development studio dedicated to the idea that games can create deeper, more meaningful experiences.At Singularity 6, we explore new styles of game design and tackling difficult technical problems to create worlds that are beautiful and intricate, delivering far more than superficial entertainment or basic wish fulfillment,experiences that becomes a meaningful part of your life. | $30M / Series B / Jul 01, 2021 | ||
| Double Loop Games is a mobile studio dedicated to making delightful, relaxing experiences for the biggest audience in games. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 12, 2020 | ||
| Founders Pledge is a global community of founders and investors committed to making the maximum possible impact on the social causes they're passionate about. Through Founders Pledge, members commit to donate a meaningful percentage of their personal exit proceeds to the charities and social causes of their choice following liquidity. Sincelaunching in 2015, Founders Pledge members have committed more than $2 billion to charity and donation $440 million. | $2.6M / Grant / Dec 27, 2019 | ||
| Knock Knock is a developer of frictionless games and technologies. We are a passionate team of game makers who believe that rapidly-developing frictionless technologies such as HTML5 and 5G will be a force of change in the gaming industry - leading to more viral user acquisition and new, instant social gameplay mechanics created by bypassingtraditional app stores.Knock Knock is headquartered in San Francisco with a studio in Toronto. The team was founded by folks from Zynga, Jam City, Glu Mobile, N3twork, and MZ.We’ve raised a total of $6 million in funding, with March Capital Partners leading the Series A in August of 2019. Investors also include games specialists London Venture Partners, Raine Ventures, and Ludlow Ventures. Development is extremely fast-paced, independent and agile. Instead of shipping new products in years, we're doing it in weeks or months, and pushing features faster than ever with maximum autonomy to contributors. Even though these games are lighter, and developed faster, we are thoughtful about the systems and polish of our games to ensure we reach our goal: maximize player retention and virality.Our Values: - Stay small, and move fast. - Be weird. - Grow and learn by shipping. - Learn from mistakes, and don't get sad about failure. - Minimize BS, and focus on building great games. | $4M / Series A / Aug 29, 2019 | ||
| Singularity 6 is a game development studio dedicated to the idea that games can create deeper, more meaningful experiences.At Singularity 6, we explore new styles of game design and tackling difficult technical problems to create worlds that are beautiful and intricate, delivering far more than superficial entertainment or basic wish fulfillment,experiences that becomes a meaningful part of your life. | $16.5M / Series A / Aug 13, 2019 | ||
| Singularity 6 is a game development studio dedicated to the idea that games can create deeper, more meaningful experiences.At Singularity 6, we explore new styles of game design and tackling difficult technical problems to create worlds that are beautiful and intricate, delivering far more than superficial entertainment or basic wish fulfillment,experiences that becomes a meaningful part of your life. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 13, 2018 | ||
| Plexchat is venture-backed company dedicated to being the heart of mobile conversation about interests. Chaos is a pretty common theme in almost all online social networks. Despite their proliferation, very few were designed to facilitate coordination and communication. Plexchat intends on changing this by bringing to market the premier toolfor social coordination in mobile games in an anonymous environment. | $7M / Seed / Jul 19, 2017 | ||
| Brainbow (now Peak) was founded in 2012 by a Physics PhD and Amazon, EA/Playfish and Google alumni.The company's mission is to reinvent how they consume and ‘play’ with knowledge - making it a more enjoyable experience and building healthy habits. Peak is brain training redesigned for the mobile you. Improve your cognitive skills andbuild healthy training habits with fun but challenging games, goals and workouts | $7.5M / Series A / Apr 16, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
About LVP
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
LVP Contacts
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Are Mack Growen
Partner
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Catherine Ress
Executive Admin
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David Gardner
General Partner
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David Lau-Kee
General Partner
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Gavin Harrison
Finance Director
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FAQ
What does David Gardner invest in?
David Gardner invests primarily in Gaming, Mobile and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is David Gardner's check size?
David Gardner typically joins rounds of $796k–$7M at Seed and $3.6M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Gardner participates in.
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When did David Gardner last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Gardner closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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