Chris Magazzeni
Investor at IQ Capital
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Director - Special Projects
2025 - Current
Leading investments into technologies protecting European democracy. Aerospace & defence, reindustrialisation.
Angel Investor
2024
Stealth defence company pre-seed (Dec '24) Industrialisation company seed (Feb '25)
Board Director
2023 - 2024
Representing IQ on: ToffeX (Dec 2023 - Dec 2024) Porotech (Dec 2023 - Jul 2024) Boltzbit (Dec 2023 - Dec 2024)
Board Observer
2023 - 2024
Supporting IQ board representation on: - Paragraf - Oxford Space Systems - BMLL - Opteran - QuadSAT - Ionate - Ai Build
Co-Chair & Co-Founder
2023
www.thedin.uk
Member
2023
Associate
2023 - 2025
Areas of interest: Space, Aerospace & Defence, Advanced Manufacturing, and Materials. Associate - working with existing portfolio companies and sourcing new opportunities, investing in technology innovations to improve and secure the world. Lead associate on Mytos Series A. Lead on Alpine Eagle Seed.
Research Fellow
2022 - 2023
Built tools to enable advanced manufacturing methods for space applications. Led portfolio of research in development of Additive Manufacturing for Space applications. Key contact for collaborations with start-ups and academia. Convened working groups to report results to ESA and industrial partners across Europe.
Research Associate
2021 - 2023
I2I Ideas2Impact Fellow, attending Strategy and Innovation courses from the Exec MBA Course. Organiser of the "SmartSpace" seminar series. Invited as project lead to investigate the space ecosystem in the UK, funded by the ESRC and UKSA.
Associate
2019 - 2022
Advised clients in the UK Aerospace & Defence sector on emerging technologies. Team Lead of project involved in the grant assessment process for a major international university.
DPhil Candidate
2017 - 2022
Directed 4 year project to develop methods for assessing advanced titanium alloys for Rolls-Royce plc. Awarded 3 year Industrial Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to broaden research impact, worth £70,000. Wrote innovative software in MATLAB to enable overnight materials assessment, generating structure-property relationships 3000% faster than conventional methods. Led international project to halve experimental fatigue costs using Bayesian Optimisation. Invited to incorporate methodology into Rolls-Royce practice. Collaborated with researchers across 4 departments, 4 universities, and 2 continents, leading to 7 academic publications including in Acta Materialia. Presented findings to industrial colleagues and international conferences; awarded prizes for scientific presentation at Oxford Local IOM3 Young Members Lecture Competition, departmental Hetherington Prize, and the EIS 2021 Peter Watson Prize. -Placement at Rolls-Royce Derby & Singapore Analysed product safety and reliability data in advanced manufacturing methods. Integrated into advanced repair technology team, project managed for failure detection project leading to a departmental report, and collaborated with NTU to create novel test specimen geometry enabling additive manufacturing qualification.
President
2020 - 2021
Elected President of the leading university society on aerospace affairs. Governed and led committee of student volunteers. Secured recurring sponsorship from Reaction Engines ltd worth £100s. Coordinated transition to virtual events during COVID-19, hosting 24 events reaching ca. 10,000 views. Chaired discussions with Astronauts, Chiefs of Air staff, international \acr{CEO}s, and eminent researchers in aerospace. www.aerox.space