b. our team
Chad Beyers
"When I was graduating college, a mentor told me to find a job that didn't feel like a job. Venture Capital is that job for me. I wake up every day excited to work with amazing founders"
Chad is the co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures where he focuses on investments in enterprise software, fintech, and healthcare. Prior to Susa Ventures, Chad spent time at Integrate and Silver Spring Networks (SSNI) in various marketing and product management roles. He is also an angel investor in over 30+ companies including LearnUp, Tradesy, Womply, and Transcriptic. Chad chased his love for skiing, mountains and the outdoors to Boulder, Colorado where he graduated in 2009 with a degree in Environmental Science.
Leo Polovets.
"After working at Google and two early-stage startups as a software engineer, I decided to focus on learning about building successful businesses from the VC side. I love working with smart, passionate founders; helping them wherever possible; and sharing lessons and knowledge within the Susa family."
Leo is a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. Prior to Susa, Leo was one of the first engineers at LinkedIn in 2003, then worked on payment fraud detection at Google, then designed and built the data cleaning and deduping engines at Factual. He is an angel investor in over a dozen companies, including DataFox, Boomtrain, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. Leo holds a BS with Honors degree from Caltech, and in 2002, he was one of three members of Caltech's world finalist ACM International Programming Contest team. As one founder put it, Leo is a nerd's nerd. In his spare time, he enjoying reading, writing, programming, and spending time with his wife.
Natalie Fleming.
"Operating in sales, business development, and investor relations roles at three startups offered me the full life cycle experience— from early stage through strategic acquisition, to a hyper growth Series A-D, to a full wind down. I've loved building companies alongside passionate founders, and I'm grateful to now have the opportunity to do that at Susa."
Natalie joined Susa Ventures in January 2018 as Head of Operations. She focuses on designing our pre- and post-investment processes, growing the team, building out our platform to support founders, supporting fundraising, and bringing together the Susa family -- including founders, LPs, investors and operators. As Susa's resident food expert, she also leads investments in food & agriculture. Prior to joining Susa, Natalie was at Ecoscraps (acquired), Hampton Creek (now JUST) and Juicero (RIP). She grew up in the rural Midwest before heading west on a scholarship to Arizona State University, where she graduated with a BA in sustainability, with honors.
Seth Berman.
Investing for me has always been about the founders. I feel lucky to have worked with some amazing entrepreneurs; being able to share previous learnings with future founders is what motivates me every day.
Seth is a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. Seth has been an active seed stage technology investor since 2009 and has over 85 companies in his portfolios both individually and through Susa Ventures. Some of Seth's previous investments include Nest, Optimizely, Wish, Docker, and FutureAdviser. Seth also worked at The Richemont Group as a VP performing strategic marketing across their brand portfolio for nine years. He gets excited about frontier tech and can't wait until we live in a world of fully autonomous cars. Seth was previously involved in re-launching Formula 1 Racing in the United States. He grew up in Colorado competing in the sport of Freestyle Skiing and helped start Freeskier Magazine, a successful ski magazine that is still in publication today. Seth graduated from the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business in 2000.