Investing Profile

Leo Polovets(243)

VCInvestor

General Partner at Susa Ventures

susaventures.comPortland, Oregon

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Leo Polovets's investing connections

44 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 41 other investors on Signal.

Networks Leo is a member of

Google Network

245 CONNECTIONS

Microsoft Network

101 CONNECTIONS

LinkedIn Network

33 CONNECTIONS

California Institute of Technology Network

14 CONNECTIONS

Alchemist Accelerator Network

11 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Susa Ventures General Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $2.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$90M

Leo Polovets is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Leo Polovets's Investments On Record (31)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Treasury Prime	Series BMay 2021$20M Seed RoundJan 2018$2.5M	$32M
Co-investors: Amias Gerety Gerety (QED Investors), Louis Beryl
Text Blaze	Seed RoundMay 2021$3.3M	$3.3M
Co-investors: Villi Iltchev (Two Sigma Ventures), Kyle Tibbitts (Paradox Capital)
Pex	Series AFeb 2021$57M Seed RoundOct 2017$7M	$72M
Co-investors: Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures), Patrick Murphy (Semble Ventures)
Gentem	Series AFeb 2021$10M Seed RoundJan 2020$3.7M	$14M
Co-investors: Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), YB (Yongbai) Choi (Vulcan Capital), Jordan Wan (CoFound Partners), Mathieu Guerville
Spiketrap	Seed RoundJul 2020$3M	$3.6M
Co-investors: Steven Rosenblatt (Oceans), Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures), Ryan Gembala (Pathbreaker Ventures)
Outlier	Series BJan 2020$22M Series AJul 2018$6.2M	$58M
Co-investors: Alexander Rosen (Ridge Ventures), Alex Rosen (IDG Ventures), Neil Sirni (Arrive), John Lyman (GV), Seetharam Venkatesh (Capital One Ventures), Josef Feldman (Tectonic Capital)
Unioncrate	Series AOct 2019$9M Seed RoundSep 2018$3.2M	$13M
Co-investors: Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), Paul Appelbaum (Rock Ventures), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Greg Schroy
Holloway	Seed RoundAug 2019$4.6M	$4.6M
Co-investors: Dennis Phelps (IVP), Raj De Datta (Founder Collective), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Danielle Morrill (XFactor Ventures), Neil Parikh, Paul Kromidas, Kevin Lee

not interested in

We're open to any company with good moat potential. We do a lot of b2b investing. On the b2c side, we typically look for companies that monetize users directly rather than through ads.

Leo Polovets's Experience

Intern Java Developer ReutersPresent

Mentor Alchemist Accelerator2015 - Present

General Partner Susa Ventures2012 - Present

Panel member FundersClub Panel2013 - 2016

Sr. Software Engineer Factual2009 - 2012

SW Eng Google2005 - 2009

SW Eng LinkedIn2003 - 2005

SW Eng Microsoft2003 - 2003

Leo Polovets's Education

California Institute of Technology BS with Honors Computer Science

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