003- Leo Polovets, Cofounder and GP at Susa Ventures

Forward Thinking Investors

English - August 17, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
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About Leo Polovets

Leo Polovets is co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on enterprise software; developer tools and technical products; and logistics and supply chain. Leo led Susa's investments in Outlier, Pex, Scalyr, and Stedi. Having been a software engineer for 10+ years, Leo approaches challenges with an engineering mindset and supports portfolio companies in vetting and hiring technical talent. Prior to Susa, Leo was the second engineering hire at Linkedin where he worked on the first versions of products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. Leo then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google, and was also an early engineer at Factual, where he built data processing software. Leo received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science) from Caltech.

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