Hoxton Ventures: agent readiness, investment criteria and pitch path

London, United Kingdom · Europe · scanned 31 October 2026

Agent-Ready Index41.715th of 97
Agent tasks0.5of 3 verified tasks
Readiness levelL1Basic Web Presence
Checks passed8/25all decided

WEEK BY WEEK

The index is scanned again every week; this firm's history starts with the 26 Oct edition (41.7).

Every weekly edition is reviewed by a person before it goes live. Week-by-week data for all firms: history.json.

FIVE PARTS OF THE INDEX

Discoverability100%
Content for agents67%
Bot access25%
APIs, MCP and auth0%
Agent tasks17%

Each part counts 20%. Parts are the share of their checks passed; agent tasks give half credit for criteria only in page prose and for a pitch form.

THREE AGENT TASKS

✗ No

Can an agent discover the investment criteria?

“Hoxton, a leading seed fund, brings Silicon Valley style investing to Europe - taking risks on brilliant people and products” (stage, stage · llms.txt)
✗ No

Can it access APIs or MCP tools?

No MCP server card, API catalog, OpenAPI document or WebMCP tools.

½ Web form

Can it find a structured pitch-submission path?

HTML form at https://hoxtonventures.com/contact/ — behind Cloudflare Turnstile, which an agent cannot finish (not submitted).

FIRM PROFILE

Fund size

Not stated on its site.

Ticket

No ticket size an agent could read.

Stage, in its words

“Hoxton, a leading seed fund, brings Silicon Valley style investing to Europe - taking risks on brilliant people and products” — source

Backed (as listed on its site)
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WebsitePortfolioLinkedInReceipts (JSON)

EVERY CHECK

Discoverability

✓robots.txt — A valid robots.txt is published (1 User-agent group).
✓Sitemap — robots.txt lists 1 sitemap(s).
✓Link headers — Homepage Link header points agents to: alternate.
✓DNS-AID — DNS-AID ServiceMode record(s) found and DNSSEC-validated (3).
✓Organization identity — Organization structured data names Hoxton Ventures with 2 official profile link(s).

Content for agents

✗Markdown on request — Accept: text/markdown returns text/html; charset=UTF-8, not Markdown.
✓llms.txt — A valid /llms.txt summary is published for AI agents.
✓Readable without JavaScript — The server HTML carries the page text (748 of 761 words).

Bot access

✓AI bot rules — No AI-specific groups; the wildcard rules apply to AI crawlers.
✗Content Signals — No Content-Signal directive in robots.txt.
✗AI usage signals — No AI usage preferences declared (Content Signals, IETF Content-Usage, TDMRep or noai).
–Web Bot Auth — No Web Bot Auth directory (informational: only for sites that run their own bots).
✗AI agents can get in — the firewall turns away ClaudeBot user agents (a browser got through).

APIs, MCP and auth

✗API catalog — No API catalog found.
✗OAuth discovery — No OAuth/OIDC discovery metadata found.
✗Protected Resource — No valid /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
✗auth.md — auth.md not found.
✗MCP server card — MCP Server Card not found.
✗A2A agent card — A2A Agent Card not found.
✗Agent Skills — Agent Skills index not found.
✗WebMCP — No WebMCP tools were registered while the page loaded.
✗ARD manifest — No ARD capability manifest found.
✗Personal Agent Protocol — No Personal Agent Protocol manifest (/.well-known/poppy.json).

Agent actions

✗Criteria for agents — No key facts found for an agent to act on.
✗API / MCP access — No API or MCP entry point for agents (no MCP card, API catalog, OpenAPI document or WebMCP tools).
✗Pitch path agents can finish — The HTML form on https://hoxtonventures.com/contact/ is behind Cloudflare Turnstile, which an agent cannot finish.

Commerce

–x402 — x402 payment protocol not detected (not a commerce site).
–MPP — MPP payment discovery not detected (not a commerce site).
–UCP — UCP profile not found (not a commerce site).
–ACP — ACP discovery document not found (not a commerce site).
–AP2 — AP2 not detected (no A2A Agent Card) (not a commerce site).

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FAQ

What is Hoxton Ventures's ticket size?

Hoxton Ventures did not state a ticket size anywhere an agent could read on 31 October 2026.

How do you pitch Hoxton Ventures?

Hoxton Ventures has a pitch form (HTML form) at https://hoxtonventures.com/contact/, behind Cloudflare Turnstile. We did not submit it.

Is Hoxton Ventures agent-ready?

Hoxton Ventures scores 41.7 out of 100 in the Agent-Ready VC Index (rank 15 of the firms we could fully check) and reaches agent-readiness Level 1 (Basic Web Presence), passing 8 of 25 checks.

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