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Leo Polovets

Co-Founder and General Partner, Susa Ventures

About

Leo Polovets is a venture capital investor at Susa Ventures who was the second engineering hire at LinkedIn (joining when the company had ~12 people) and built early core products like Jobs and Groups before working on payments fraud at Google and big data infrastructure at Factual. He's known as the "Coding VC" for his engineering-style approach to venture capital, publishing detailed frameworks on his blog and systematically evaluating startups as "bundles of risks" that founders should de-risk rather than just chasing growth metrics. Leo Polovets is a venture capital investor at Susa Ventures who was the second engineering hire at LinkedIn (joining when the company had ~12 people) and built early core products like Jobs and Groups before working on payments fraud at Google and big data infrastructure at Factual. He's known as the "Coding VC" for his engineering-style approach to venture capital, publishing detailed frameworks on his blog and systematically evaluating startups as "bundles of risks" that founders should de-risk rather than just chasing growth metrics.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
FinTech
AI
Health
Devtools
Logistics

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $2M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
Africa
LatAm
India
USA