Leo Polovets

Leo Polovets

Susa Ventures

About

Role

General Partner

Type

Seed fund

Bio

I'm a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. I invest across sectors, but mostly focus on b2b companies. A few specific sectors I've invested in heavily are enterprise software; developer tools and technical products; and logistics and supply chain. I led Susa's investments in dozens of companies, including Outlier, Pex, Scalyr, and Stedi.

Having been a software engineer for 10+ years, I approach challenges with an engineering mindset and support portfolio companies in vetting and hiring technical talent.

Prior to Susa, I was the second engineering hire at Linkedin where I helped build the first versions of products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. I then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google, and was also an early engineer at Factual, where I built data cleaning, processing, and deduping software.

About Investments

We invest in most industries, and especially: healthcare, fintech, insurtech, logistics/supply chain, and enterprise SaaS

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed

Check Range

$1M-$2M

Geography

US/Canada

Leads Rounds

Prefers to

Investment Highlights

Flexport, Outlier, Pex, Robinhood, Scalyr, Stedi

Get in touch

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