EP20 - Hussein Kanji - partner at Hoxton Ventures | Nothing Ventured Podcast

Hussein is a partner at Hoxton Ventures. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of Baseimmune, BeyondRisk, Biocortex, Biotx, DruidAI, Finesse, Fy!, Giraffe360, Kbox, Kitt, Luminary, Peptone, PillSorted, Raptor Supplies, Really Clever, Rensair, Replai, Replan, Skin Analytics, TourRadar and XYZ Reality, and serves as a board observer on Behavox and Karakuri.

👂 Listen to the Primer Episode here - https://youtu.be/TABxKlhvRbE

🕒 Time stamps -

0:00 - Intro / Hussein's career to date.

1:47 - What does Hoxton Ventures invest into?

7:08 - Hussein's response to some articles about Hoxton having an all-male investment team.

12:29 - What is Hoxton Ventures looking for in their next member of staff?

18:44 - How hard is it to get funding today?

24:28 - What does Hussein think of the AI space?

25:19 - What are the deterrents for that put off a small business from investing locally vs going straight to the US?

33:44 - Is GymShark a technology business?

34:05 - Where can people find Hussein online?

🔗 Hussein Kanji's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hkanji/?originalSubdomain=uk
Twitter - https://twitter.com/hkanji
Web - https://www.hoxtonventures.com/people/hussein-kanji/