RK

Rob Kniaz

Founder of H Tree Capital (and Hoxton Ventures)

London, England

Work Experience

  • Cofounder

    2023

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

  • 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.

2023

  • Member Board of Directors

    2023

  • Member Board of Directors

    2023

2022

  • Member Board of Directors

    2022

2022

  • Investor Director

    2022

2022

  • Director

    2022

2021

  • Seed Investor

    2021

2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

2021

  • Investor, Board Observer

    2021