Leo Polovets
InvestorGeneral Partner at Humba Ventures Β· General Partner at Susa Ventures
Dallas, Texas
Writes $250K β $1M checks Β· typically $750K
About
Leo Polovets is a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, a seed fund, where he invests primarily in B2B companies, with concentrations in enterprise software, developer tools and technical products, and logistics and supply chain. He has led dozens of Susa investments, including Outlier, Pex, Scalyr, and Stedi, and draws on more than a decade as a software engineer to help portfolio companies evaluate and hire technical talent. Before Susa, he was LinkedIn's second engineering hire, contributing to early versions of LinkedIn Jobs and Groups, then worked on payment fraud detection at Google and served as an early engineer at Factual building data cleaning, processing, and deduping software.
Invests in
BiotechClimate TechDeep TechDefense TechFintechHardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesRoboticsSaaS
Experience
- Humba VenturesGeneral Partnercurrent2021 β present
- Susa VenturesCo-founder and Partner Emerituscurrent2024 β present
- Susa VenturesGeneral Partner2012 β 2024
- FactualSenior Software Engineer2009 β 2012Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2005 β 2009
- LinkedInSoftware Engineer2003 β 2005
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2003
- ReutersIntern Java Developer2000 β 2002
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Education
- CaltechBS with Honors, Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science)1999 β 2003
Skills & more
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InterviewsData MiningPerformance TuningAngel InvestingSoftware DesignOOPRecruitingBig DataFraud DetectionDeduplicationEntity ExtractionTechnical AdvisoryLanguages English Β· French Β· Russian
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Investments
Investor
FlexportOutlierPexRobinhoodScalyrStedi
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Colleagues at Humba Ventures
Network4
Investors connected to Leo in public investor directories β a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does Leo Polovets work?
- Leo Polovets is General Partner at Humba Ventures.
- What does Leo Polovets invest in?
- Leo Polovets invests in Biotech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Fintech, Hardware, Healthtech, Medical Devices, Robotics, SaaS.
- What check size does Leo Polovets write?
- Leo Polovets typically writes checks of $250K β $1M.
Same school
Also attended Caltech137
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Shared employers
Also worked at Susa Ventures17
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Also worked at Factual9
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Also worked at Google1,567
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Also worked at LinkedIn178
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