Leo Polovets

Leo Polovec is a co-founder and general partner at Susa Ventures. He specializes in enterprise software, developer tools and technical products, as well as logistics and supply chain. Leo has led Susa’s investments in Outlier, Pex, Scalyr and Stedi. As a software engineer for more than 10 years, Leo approaches challenges with an engineering mindset and supports portfolio companies in vetting and hiring technical talent. Prior to joining Susa, Leo was a second engineer at Linkedin, where he worked on the first versions of products such as LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. Leo then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google, and was one of the first engineers at Factual, where he built data processing software. Leo holds a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science) from the California Institute of Technology.