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Leo Polovets
General Partner at Humba Ventures and Susa Ventures
Leo Polovets is a seasoned professional with a strong background in software engineering and venture capital, currently serving as a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures.
His investment focus lies predominantly in b2b companies, with a keen interest in sectors such as enterprise software, developer tools, technical products, logistics, and supply chain.
With over a decade of experience as a software engineer, Leo brings an engineering mindset to address challenges and assists portfolio companies in evaluating and recruiting technical talent.
Leo's career highlights include being the second engineering hire at LinkedIn, contributing to the development of key products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups.
He also worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google and played a pivotal role as an early engineer at Factual, concentrating on building data processing and deduping software.
Leo Polovets holds a BS with Honors in Engineering and Applied Science with a focus on Computer Science from Caltech.
Throughout his career, Leo has been associated with renowned organizations such as Humba Ventures, Susa Ventures, Factual, Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft, where his software engineering expertise has been instrumental in driving innovation and growth.
In addition to his professional endeavors, Leo Polovets previously worked as an Intern Java Developer at Reuters, further enriching his diverse skill set and experience.
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Super common founder question: can you raise in late summer or over the holidays? Yes, absolutely.
Some months are a bit better or worse, but VCs won't pass automatically if you fundraise in a slow month. Their processes just slow down, so an X-week process might take X+2 weeks.

