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Hoxton Ventures

Founders Hussein Kanji Rob Kniaz

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Total investments 110
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 71
Rounds per year 10.00
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 11
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Biotechnology
Summary

Hoxton Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Hoxton Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Hoxton Ventures performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Hoxton Ventures, startups are often financed by Visionnaire Ventures, Speedinvest, Isomer Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Visionnaire Ventures, Isomer Capital, Index Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Visionnaire Ventures, Future Fifty.

The current fund was established by Hussein Kanji, Rob Kniaz. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Digital Media. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Deliveroo, Darktrace, Babylon Health.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PACT

Biotechnology
Sustainability
$12M26 Sep 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

CuspAI

$30M18 Jun 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Malted AI

$8M15 May 2024 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Cogna

$5M07 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Fluent

$8M06 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Baseimmune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$12M26 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

DRUID

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Workforce
$30M12 Sep 2023 Bucharest, Romania

Preply

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Tutoring
$42M19 Jul 2023 Massachusetts, United States

Graphext

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Predictive Analytics
Sales Automation
$3M13 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
News
Ochre Bio Closes $9.6M Seed Financing Led by Khosla Ventures

– Ochre Bio, a biotech company developing RNA medicines for chronic liver diseases, announced the closing of a $9.6M seed financing round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Backed VC, Apollo Health Ventures, Selvedge, Hoxton and Hermes-Epitek.
– The funding will be used to advance the development of Ochre Bio’s RNA therapies and expand their deep phenotyping platform to identify and validate new liver targets.
– Using deep phenotyping (‘phenomics’), the company digitizes liver biology at scale, from healthy through to advanced liver disease.
– Ochre Bio has already generated massive amounts of spatial genomics data from freshly donated human livers, and have uncovered hundreds of novel potential liver targets that are currently being validated in their labs.

Preply Raises $35M in Series B Funding

– Preply from Kyiv is a global edtech marketplace for tutor-based foreign language learning.
– The company raised $35m in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by Owl Ventures and Full In Partners, with participation from previous investors Point Nine Capital, Hoxton Ventures, as well as EduCapital, All Iron, Diligent Capital and Evli Growth Partners.
– Angel investors Niklas Ostberg, co-founder and CEO of Delivery Hero, Arthur Kosten, co-founder of Booking.com, Przemyslaw Gacek, co-founder of Grupa Pracuj, and David Helgason, co-founder of Unity Technologies are also participants.

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Total investments 110
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 10.00
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PACT

Biotechnology
Sustainability
$12M26 Sep 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

CuspAI

$30M18 Jun 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Malted AI

$8M15 May 2024 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Cogna

$5M07 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Fluent

$8M06 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Baseimmune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$12M26 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

DRUID

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Workforce
$30M12 Sep 2023 Bucharest, Romania

Preply

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Tutoring
$42M19 Jul 2023 Massachusetts, United States

Graphext

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Predictive Analytics
Sales Automation
$3M13 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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