# Stuart Gardner

> Stuart Gardner is a pre-seed investor in London backing Software and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-gardner-91552016
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/stuartgardner
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stoogey

Stuart Gardner is a pre-seed investor in London focused on Software and Financial Services. Stuart Gardner

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $960k–$1M |
| Pre-Seed | $652k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |
| Solar | 1 | 10% |
| Mobile | 1 | 10% |
| Banking | 1 | 10% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 40% |
| India | 1 | 10% |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VIAN Therapeutics | VIAN Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on transforming retinal disease treatment. With a first-in-class, non-invasive eyedrop as its lead product, VIAN aims to replace invasive injections for conditions like age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME). Backed by strong preclinical data andongoing clinical testing, VIAN is positioned to address significant unmet medical needs and disrupt the $15 billion retinal disease market. | $1M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Fundably | Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan \| Access £1k-£2m |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Dognosis | Dognosis is a deeptech startup based in Bangalore building olfaction AI to unlock disease screening at scale. We work with wearable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), sensor fusion, machine learning, and highly trained biomedical detection dogs to understand scent in unprecedented ways. We are currently focused on developing a breath-basedpan-cancer screening test that will be ultra-affordable, low-friction, and extremely cost-effective. Dognosis is lead by Akash Kulgod, a UC Berkeley trained cognitive scientist and Itamar Bitan, a former IDF K9 professional, and currently consists of 16 full-time employees in engineering, computational neuroscience, and clinical operations. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 20, 2024 |  |
| MONET | Financial technology for the $250Bn media & entertainment agency economy.MONET is building the finance platform for agencies (creative, talent management, PR, social media, affiliate, and other digital publishing). We currently provide tech-driven financing, end-to-end campaign management, and tools to manage and pay vendors (talent likeinfluencers, freelancers, creatives) globally, enabling MONET to be the operational backbone of agencies and positioning us to access granular and enriched underwriting data so we can provide just-in-time financing at scale. Our goal is to build a full-suite of finance and back-office essentials for agencies, in a vertical fintech platform, covering financing, banking, payments and operations tools.In addition to solving major pain-points in agency operations, our technology can ultimately deliver financial inclusion to over 200m freelancers and other independent creative suppliers globally through the unique EarlyPay technology we have created, which enables vendors to cash out earnings made via agencies immediately, which is also a revenue generating tool for agencies. | $652.4K | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| Connect4 | Connect4 provides a client meeting app. It is designed to help client-centric teams deliver smarter client meetings. First-class client meetings lead to strong relationships and healthy recurring business. They built around the concept of pods, which are central workspaces for teams and clients. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2021 |  |
| Cargofy | Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Beeverso (formerly BeeReaders) | Beereaders is a digital platform that promotes literacy skills among Spanish-speaking students presenting personalized learning and using original Spanish content in a game-like experience. | $960K | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| PF Nexus | PF Nexus is the renewable energy & infrastructure deal origination platform for financial professionals. Our platform helps capital to find projects, and projects to find capital.Since 2021, we began offering the largest free database of renewable energy investors, developers, lenders and acquirers available anywhere on the internet. The dataincludes hundreds of solar developers, international project finance banks, infrastructure funds, family offices, IPPs, PE funds, DFIs, and ECAs. split by geographic focus and types of project. PF Nexus' mission is to streamline the world’s transition to renewable energy, in order to reduce social inequality and climate change. Our process cuts the nonsense, enabling corporate capital to identify and begin discussions with precisely the types of solar, wind, battery and sustainable infrastructure projects they are seeking.Based out of London since 2019, we are proud to be trusted by the world's most innovative global project finance investors. In the past year, we have helped to close in excess of 1,000MW of new renewable capacity.Join today, and become a part of the most active cross-border private deal network in clean energy and sustainable infrastructure.https://www.pfnexus.com |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2020 |  |
| Unbound | Unbound is a sexual wellness company for women. The company makes and sells vibrators, lubricants,and accessories direct-to-consumer through their website. |  | Seed | Sep 07, 2017 |  |
| Den | Switches have been around since the 1800's, since then technology has improved at a rapid rate, they now have smart phones, smart thermostats, and even smart watches, however their light switches and plug sockets haven't taken advantage of modern day technology; they are extremely dated.At Den they are building the next generation oflight switches and plug sockets, to be used in all countries worldwide. Their products allow you to continue flicking switches on and off manually, just like you would an ordinary switch - However they also allow you to wirelessly control your switches, via a remote or smartphone app, in super awesome ways. | $637K | Angel | Jun 23, 2015 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Charlotte Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlotte-street-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arc Capital Development](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arc-capital-development-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Outlander Fund I Archimedes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AT&T](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-t) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Stuart Gardner invest in?

Stuart Gardner invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Solar startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Stuart Gardner's check size?

Stuart Gardner typically joins rounds of $960k–$1M at Seed and $652k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stuart Gardner participates in.

### When did Stuart Gardner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stuart Gardner closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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