The guest of the 15th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Rob Kniaz, Partner at Hoxton Ventures.

HOXTON VENTURES is an early stage venture capital firm investing in European technology startups that can scale into large, global winners. It focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. It already has four unicorns in its portfolio: Babylon, Darktrace, Deliveroo, Epic Games and it’s just getting started. To date Inovo Venture Partners made two co-investments with Hoxton Ventures – that was Spacelift and Preply. You can find more on Hoxton Ventures here: https://www.hoxtonventures.com.

Maciej Malysz, a Partner at Inovo, sat down with Rob Kniaz to discuss:
✅ What has Rob learned from investing in unicorns?
✅ What does he look for in early-stage startups?
✅ How does Rob's Google PM experience help in his investment activities?
✅ And what does he mean by: "You have to be crazy to be a founder"?

INOVO VENTURE PARTNERS is a first-choice VC for ambitious founders from Poland and the CEE region. We back early-stage, post-traction startups with up to €3M of initial investment, and help them build global brands, while driving growth of the local startup ecosystem. We take great pride in being close to top founders who think big. We’re investors in: Booksy, Restaumatic, Sotrender, Infermedica, Spacelift, Tidio, AI Clearing, Zowie, Jutro Medical, Intiaro, Packhelp, Preply, Eyerim, Allset, SunRoof and Archbee. Our recent fund Inovo II reached a total of €54M.

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