Hussein Kanji

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Hussein Kanji is a founding partner of Hoxton Ventures, the London-based seed-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2013 to back European founders building category-defining technology companies. The firm's early investments include Deliveroo, Darktrace, Babylon Health and Preply.

Before Hoxton, Kanji spent four years at Accel Partners in London, joining as a venture consultant alongside his MBA and staying on as an associate after graduation. He had previously worked in product and platform roles at Microsoft for several years and earlier as a strategist at Sun Microsystems during the late-1990s internet boom in Silicon Valley.

A New Yorker by upbringing, Kanji studied symbolic systems at Stanford University and holds an MBA from London Business School. He has been featured on the Forbes Midas List Europe and is one of the most active first-cheque investors in European technology, with a small partnership that has produced multiple billion-dollar outcomes.