Morgan Polotan is a private tech investor and operator with 11 years of experience building and scaling venture and growth portfolios across Bloomberg Beta, Comcast Ventures, B Capital, and Monashee, and now leading his own firm Backpocket. He has led strategy, fundraising, and portfolio construction at a $3B hedge fund and helped launch B Capital’s early-stage Ascent Fund, serving as a board director across enterprise and infrastructure companies. Morgan combines a founder-friendly investment approach with hands-on operational judgment from his early software engineering days, giving him a rare technical lens on product and GTM risks. He’s been an active board member and investor in companies spanning developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and consumer startups, and earned a full-ride Ell Scholarship to Northeastern University. Less obvious: his trajectory shows a consistent pattern of joining or creating early vehicles inside larger platforms to scale new investment strategies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General at Northeastern University
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