Leo Polovets
General Partner at Humba Ventures
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolLeo Polovets is a General Partner and co-founder focused on seed investing in deep tech and critical sectors through Humba Ventures and Susa Ventures, deploying $250k–$1M checks into companies in manufacturing, energy, and defense. With 14+ years of engineering experience, he was the second engineering hire at LinkedIn (helping build early Jobs and Groups), worked on payment fraud detection at Google, and built large-scale data cleaning and deduplication systems at Factual. He blends hands-on systems and algorithmic expertise with operator-first investing, favoring companies that require rigorous engineering to de-risk physical and data-heavy problems. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area and Caltech-trained in Engineering and Applied Science (CS), he maintains a public-facing technical voice through his blog CodingVC and occasional commentary on startup strategy. An unexpected throughline in his career is a consistent focus on messy, real-world data and fraud/quality problems—skills that translate directly into his sourcing and diligence for deep-tech seed deals.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
English, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
java6
reflection6
clojure1
scheduling1
cron1
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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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