Leo Polovets Overview
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Angel
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Active
- Professionals
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1
- Investments
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23
- Portfolio
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11
- Exits
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12
Leo Polovets General Information
Description
Mr. Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder & serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. Mr. Polovets focuses on enterprise software; developer tools and technical products; and logistics and supply chain. He led Susa's investments in Outlier, Pex, Scalyr, and Stedi. He serves as an Advisor at Ensemble VC. He approaches challenges with an engineering mindset and supports portfolio companies in vetting and hiring technical talent. Prior to Susa, he was the second engineering hire at Linkedin where he worked on the first versions of products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. He then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google and was also an early engineer at Factual, where he built data processing software. He received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science) from Caltech.
Business Details
Investor Status
Primary Investor Type
Corporate Office
- Menlo Park, CA
- United States
Leo Polovets Investments (23)
| Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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| Particle (Software Development Applications) | 06-Sep-2023 | Later Stage VC | Software Development Applications | Generating Revenue | ||
| OASIS (Social/Platform Software) | 20-Oct-2022 | Social/Platform Software | Generating Revenue | |||
| Hurry | 01-Nov-2021 | Logistics | Out of Business | |||
| Yendo | 07-Oct-2021 | Consumer Finance | Generating Revenue | |||
| Remodelmate | 30-Apr-2021 | Real Estate Services (B2C) | Generating Revenue | |||
| CloudTrucks | 31-Jan-2020 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
| Placer.ai | 30-Sep-2019 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
| Holloway | 01-Aug-2019 | Media and Information Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | |||
| Auxon | 07-May-2019 | Angel (individual) | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | ||
| Zipline (Business/Productivity Software) | 09-Mar-2016 | Seed Round | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue |
Leo Polovets Exits (12)
| Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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| Hurry | 20-Feb-2024 | Out of Business | |
| Casetext | 17-Aug-2023 | ||
| Smith (Application Software) | 01-Dec-2019 | ||
| SimpleLegal | 13-May-2019 | ||
| DataFox | 31-Oct-2018 | ||
| Lumoid | 10-Dec-2017 | ||
| Boomtrain | 18-Jul-2017 | ||
| Little Bird | 17-Nov-2016 | ||
| OLSET | 19-Oct-2016 | Merger/Acquisition | |
| Bonafide People | 01-Aug-2016 | Out of Business |
Leo Polovets Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
Investments by Industry
Investments by Year
Investments by Region
Leo Polovets Co-Investors (77)
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| Cendana Capital | 1 |
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Leo Polovets FAQs
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Who is Leo Polovets?
Leo Polovets is an angel Investor who has made 23 investments.
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What kind of investor is Leo Polovets?
Leo Polovets is an angel investor.
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What does Leo Polovets do?
As an angel investor, Leo Polovets invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.
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What has Leo Polovets invested in?
Leo Polovets has made numerous investments in companies like Particle (Software Development Applications), OASIS (Social/Platform Software), and Hurry within the Software Development Applications, Social/Platform Software, and Logistics industries.
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What has Leo Polovets invested in recently?
Leo Polovets's latest investment was on 06-Sep-2023 in Particle (Software Development Applications), a company within the Software Development Applications industry.
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