Leo Polovets
General Partner at Humba Ventures
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolLeo Polovets is a seasoned software engineer turned investor, currently General Partner at Humba Ventures and Co-founder/Partner Emeritus at Susa Ventures. With 13+ years of hands-on engineering leadership, he has built scalable data pipelines, distributed systems, and fraud-detection infrastructure at Google, LinkedIn, and Factual. Humba backs pre-seed to seed companies with $250k-$1m, while Susa leads or co-leads seed rounds of $1m-$2.5m, with a focus on deep tech, American dynamism, and sectors like defense, robotics, climate, space, biology, and healthcare. He combines technical depth with a founder-centric approach, honing recruiting, culture, and early-stage execution across portfolios. A Caltech alumnus with BS Honors in Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science), he brings rigorous training to scale-focused ventures. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, he leverages a national network to connect ambitious founders with the resources they need to grow.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS with Honors, Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science), BS with Honors, Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science) at California Institute of Technology
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (6)
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java6
dsl1
clojure1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
codingvc/codingvc
Feb 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:232 commits in 5 years 9 months
lpolovets/lpolovets.github.io
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:266 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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