Rob Kniaz

Managing Partner at Hoxton Ventures

London, England

Overview

Rob Kniaz is the Co-founder of Hoxton Ventures and H Tree Capital, specializing in Tech:Bio & Deep Tech investments. He has successfully invested in companies like Preply (Series C) and Spacelift (Series B), demonstrating a strong track record of supporting innovative startups in various sectors. Currently based in London, England, Rob Kniaz's career highlights include co-founding Hoxton Ventures and actively investing in a diverse range of sectors such as Medical Devices, Robotics, and AI. His expertise in venture capital, business development, and strategic partnerships has contributed to the success of companies like MultiOmic Health and FabricNano.

Work Experience

H Tree Capital

Cofounder
2023 - Current
Investing at the intersection of where AI and machine learning are tranforming the world of natural sciences, human and planetary health.

Hoxton Ventures

Partner Emeritus
2025
Founding Managing Partner
2013 - 2025
Investors in Deliveroo, Darktrace, Babylon Health, SuperAwesome, Preply, Spacelift.io, Phagos, Formance, Deblock, Nomagic, Ochre Bio, FabricNano, NoMagic and Optimoroute among others.
Data Engineer
2013 - 2025
Building extensive tools for internal use around data collection from myriad public and private sources. Despite being a poor coder I've managed to throw together nearly 100k LOC and constantly webscrape and otherwise reverse engineer private APIs and such, primarily with headless Chrome on Ubuntu and lots of XHR interception on a fleet of centrally coordinated bots. Then after extensive cleaning, normalizing and postprocessing with ML, exposing to Hoxton team and portfolio founders for insights into who would make a good hire and what companies are under the radar but doing something interesting.