Kniaz was a National Merit Scholarship recipient at St Mary's Ryken High School.
Hoxton has been cited as one of Europe's leading "unicorn hunter" VCs with two portfolio companies valued at over $1b as of 2018.
[28] Kniaz holds board seats on Assetario, Boost Security, Deblock, FabricNano, Flair Impact, Formance, Kheiron Medical, LiliumX, Limbo Revolution, NoMagic, Ordercast, Pear Bio, Phagos, Preply and Spacelift for Hoxton.
[31] Kniaz co-founded the deep tech and biotech VC firm H-Tree Capital with Vanela Bushi in 2023.
[35] Post Brexit he has provided regular commentary around the position of UK venture capital in Europe in publications such as Bloomberg News, the Evening Standard,[36] and Business Insider.