Leo Polovets @lpolovets
GP @SusaVentures ($1m+ seed checks in SaaS, fintech, etc) & @humbavc ($500k checks in deep tech + critical sectors)🦍 Prev: Caltech; 2nd eng @ LinkedIn; Google codingvc.com Miami! Joined May 2009-
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Our @alley_corp Deep Tech team is playing with @lpolovets and @Julian over at DeepChecks. Awesome group of folks. No better antidepressant than seeing all the sci fi futures being instantiated into reality by amazing people. 🤖 📈
Our @alley_corp Deep Tech team is playing with @lpolovets and @Julian over at DeepChecks. Awesome group of folks. No better antidepressant than seeing all the sci fi futures being instantiated into reality by amazing people. 🤖 📈
"Scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick" Wow, shrinkflation is brutal. "Gold-plated" => 1 atom thick layer of gold! liu.se/en/news-item/e…
Introducing 𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐇𝐀 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 🌋 - Pushing the boundaries of dexterity with low-cost robots and AI. @GoogleDeepMind Finally got to share some videos after a few months. Robots are fully autonomous filmed in one continuous shot. Enjoy!
Made my first investment into a deepchecks.vc company this week! It's so awesome to see a ton of great deep tech founders and investors converging in one place. 🤖🚀💪
Made my first investment into a deepchecks.vc company this week! It's so awesome to see a ton of great deep tech founders and investors converging in one place. 🤖🚀💪
I really enjoyed recording an episode of The Digital Industrial Podcast with @ty_findley. We talked about common misconceptions about deep tech, the "Why Now" for the category, and differences between investor diligence for deep tech vs. traditional tech. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heavy…
"Pentagon now expects the plane to fly until 2088" How can one can plan so far in advance given the speed of tech progress?? ~70 yrs ago: FORTRAN invented ~70 yrs before that: light bulb invented ~70 yrs from now: this plane will still be relevant!!1 🤔 breakingdefense.com/2024/04/f-35-p…
I’m against the next war already.
🤖 Calling all robotics founders & builders 🦾 @spacecadet + @BoostVC are hosting a Robotics Pitch Day on May 16th to help support the next generation of roboticists! 💰 $50K uncapped SAFE for the winner! 🧑⚖️ @helengreiner @ericlitman @GusDomel @WizLikeWizard Apply below 👇
TSMC fabs are so back in Arizona. @elonmusk shares more Mars details. @OrchidInc will help make healthy babies. Earth internet might get 4.5 million times faster. @Astranis Omega to deliver 50Gbps from GEO. Plus, @mfgrp on how to choose problems. What a week for the optimists.
It's easier to build hardware now than ever before. (From @lpolovets's awesome article.) Compared to 15-20 years ago: ‣ Solar panels are 10x cheaper per watt and 1.5x-2x more efficient. ‣ Lithium-ion batteries are 10x cheaper and 10x more energy dense. ‣ LiDAR is about…
It's easier to build hardware now than ever before. (From @lpolovets's awesome article.) Compared to 15-20 years ago: ‣ Solar panels are 10x cheaper per watt and 1.5x-2x more efficient. ‣ Lithium-ion batteries are 10x cheaper and 10x more energy dense. ‣ LiDAR is about…
There's a misconception that it's almost impossibly hard/expensive to build deep tech co's. IMHO this is way less true than 20 yrs ago. Startups can now build amazing, hard things w/pre-seed or seed funding. I wrote a post on why deep tech is flourishing: codingvc.com/p/the-golden-a…
A thought experiment: if I were selling a product and I wanted to land a company as a customer, then saying "I won't pitch anyone other than the CEO" would be a poor idea. Pitching VC firms is similar. And FWIW, when I'm fundraising I often present to non-partner LPs.
A thought experiment: if I were selling a product and I wanted to land a company as a customer, then saying "I won't pitch anyone other than the CEO" would be a poor idea. Pitching VC firms is similar. And FWIW, when I'm fundraising I often present to non-partner LPs.
If someone refuses to talk to an associate at my fund, that's totally fine. It's a free country. But it also reduces the likelihood of my fund investing by >10x.
New blog post coming tomorrow! I'm excited to be getting into a cadence of 2-3 posts per year instead of zero posts every 2-3 years. 😅
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Updated post on deepchecks.vc over on that other platform. linkedin.com/posts/deepchec…
Our @alley_corp Deep Tech team is playing with @lpolovets and @Julian over at DeepChecks. Awesome group of folks. No better antidepressant than seeing all the sci fi futures being instantiated into reality by amazing people. 🤖 📈
I'm thrilled to be helping @Julian launch deepchecks.vc. It's a group of angels and funds that invest in deep tech, and founders can submit their pitch to the entire group at once. We need more deep tech companies & hopefully sites like this make it easier to start :)
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NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on the truth.
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@Austen Your regular reminder that socialism isn't motivated by love, it's motivated by envy. If socialism was motivated by love, socialists wouldn't care how much money Elon makes.
One of the great political battles of our times is over whether it should be possible to make huge amounts of money by doing previously unimaginable things. People full of envy sense injustice when they see the reward for people who do unimaginable things. They seek to eliminate…
It’s simple. Elon took no cash compensation and said he would make huge amounts of money _only if_ he made a company so successful it was barely even imaginable. That seemed like a great deal to everyone. Then he did it, and after everyone was made rich a couple idiots said,…
@Austen heh. to steelman this dunk, @GerberKawasaki , what changed between 2018, 2020, and 2024?
AI is moving so fast that we are starting to take for granted that this is the closest thing to magic humans have ever encountered This is 🤯 and yet next week, there will be another 🤯 AI thing There has never been a more exciting (and scary tbh) time than now
Ultra realistic AI-video from a photo This is VASA-1 from Microsoft research The improvements in quality we’re getting between each new release is incredible. Links below
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if you listen to one thing this week, make it this
Ep. 94 The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov sat down with us at his offices in Dubai for his first on-camera interview in almost a decade.
Response to this has blown me away. We’ve gotten over 350 applications in ~8 hours since posting this. Incredibly humbling. We’ll continue to take applications through Friday. Unfortunately won’t be able to meet everyone, but will communicate potential next steps no later…
Thinking of hiring a summer intern. Opportunity to come work with and learn from me for a few months. Paid. Not dogmatic about what I’m looking for. Ideally some combo of ambition, discipline and clear thinking. Apply here: forms.clickup.com/9005108889/f/8…
Incredible post. Deep, Deep, Deeptech all da way.
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