Leo Polovets is a general partner at Humba Ventures, backing founders in deep technology and industries such as manufacturing, energy, robotics and defense.
Leo Polovets is a general partner at Humba Ventures, backing founders in deep technology and industries such as manufacturing, energy, robotics and defense.
Career
General Partner at Humba Ventures until PresentInvests in early-stage deep technology companies across hard technical sectors.
Cofounder and Partner Emeritus at Susa Ventures until PresentCofounded Susa Ventures before focusing on Humba.
Senior Software Engineer at Factual until 2012Built search and data-quality infrastructure for the location-data platform.
Software Engineer at Google from 2005 to 2009Developed infrastructure and detection algorithms for payment-fraud prevention.
Software Engineer at LinkedIn from 2003 to 2005Joined as the second non-founder engineer and helped create early Jobs, Groups and graph-processing features.
Software Engineer at Microsoft from 2003 to 2003Worked in software engineering before joining LinkedIn later that year.Investing Announcements
Cosigns Received
An engineer’s view of early-stage venture investing
In this 2020 interview, Polovets discusses evaluating founders, helping technical teams and the mechanics of early-stage venture investing.