Ms. Stuardi is an accomplished startup executive with extensive experience in pre-seed to Series C ventures. For 25 years, she has helped transform bold ideas into market-ready, profitable products. Most recently, she led Growth & GTM at Mudflap, a mobile technology and payments pioneer for the trucking industry, named to the Forbes Fintech 50. Prior to Mudflap, Ms. Stuardi has served as both a full-time executive as well as an advisor to a variety of technology startups in the Fintech, Mediatech and SaaS sectors. She has also been an Executive in Residence at the University of Texas at Austin since 2018, where she teaches entrepreneurship and advises a portfolio of deep tech startups through the Austin Technology Incubator covering the food/ag, energy, water, and mobility sectors.

Outside of tech, Ms. Stuardi is experienced in early-stage venture development within the Media & Entertainment and Consumer Goods industries. During her time in Hollywood, she helped guide over $1B of investments in new entertainment deals and financings. On the consumer side, her team’s award-winning work at global brand conglomerate Philips supported the launch of category-disrupting technologies ranging from color-changing LEDs to pediatric MRIs to a container hotel concept.

Ms. Stuardi is adept at building products and brands that capture the imagination, while bringing repeatability and scale to revenue generation. She most enjoys consumer and small business solutions that blend exceptional design and novel technology applications to improve daily life.

Ms. Stuardi holds a MBA from MIT Sloan and a MFA from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and brings a unique blend of analytic, technical and creative horsepower to building and scaling new ventures. She has extensive experience living and working abroad and speaks fluent English and Italian. She lives with her family in Austin.