Humba Ventures

General contacts
Investor type

VC

Founded

2022

AUM

-

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Investment Ticket

$0-1 m

Investment Stage

Pre-seed Seed

Region of investment

North America
Investor profile last updated: 16 August, 2026

Profile

Humba Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2022 by Leo Polovets and Anna-Sofia Lesiv. The firm specializes in investing in hard tech sectors such as nuclear reactors, surgical robots, and industrial batteries. The team is composed of experienced professionals with backgrounds in software engineering, venture capital, and editorial leadership. Humba Ventures is known for its Deep Tech Fellowship, which embeds scientists into deals, and its strong follow-on support for portfolio companies.

The firm focuses on sectors including automation, robotics, manufacturing, bio, food, climate, energy, defense, deep tech, and aerospace. Humba Ventures typically invests in pre-seed and seed stages, with an average check size of around $750K. The firm primarily invests in the United States and has a track record of helping companies graduate from seed to Series A at a rate significantly higher than the industry average.

Notable investments by Humba Ventures include companies like Anvil Robotics - custom robot hardware provider, Adaptyx - hardware device for continuous biomarker monitoring, Shinkei Systems - automation solutions for fish processing, Orchard Robotics - hardware-based precision crop load management, and The Lumber Manufactory - next-gen sawmills.

Industry

Defense ClimateTech Deeptech Energy Aerospace Biotechnology Foodtech Hardware Industrial Robotics

Contacts

Name
Title
Email
Social Networks
Upgrade to see contacts
avatar
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
[email protected]
linkedin twitter
avatar
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
[email protected]
linkedin twitter
avatar
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
[email protected]
linkedin twitter
avatar
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
[email protected]
linkedin twitter
avatar
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
MFk01pxbv8w9NLnQ
[email protected]
linkedin twitter
Investment-team contacts for Humba Ventures — including verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — are available to Private Equity List subscribers.
Instant access on the web. Plans from $129/month — see pricing.
Contacts sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn, re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.

FAQs about Humba Ventures

Humba Ventures is a venture capital firm. It backs companies at Pre-seed and Seed, writing tickets of $0-1 m.
Humba Ventures is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
Humba Ventures was founded in 2022.
Humba Ventures invests in companies and startups in Defense, ClimateTech, Deeptech, Energy, Aerospace, Biotechnology, Foodtech, Hardware, Industrial, Robotics.
Humba Ventures invests in companies and startups in North America.
Humba Ventures invests in companies and startups at Pre-seed, Seed.
Humba Ventures usually invests $0-1 m on average.
Humba Ventures can be reached through its website humbaventures.com, its LinkedIn page and its X account. Cold-mailing a general inbox rarely reaches a partner, so Private Equity List also lists the investment-team contacts for Humba Ventures — names, roles, verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — available on a Pro plan from $129/month (see pricing). Contacts are sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn and re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.
Yes. Every field on this page — profile, funds, investment criteria, portfolio and investment-team contacts — is available programmatically through the Private Equity List REST API and MCP server, so AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can query Humba Ventures directly instead of scraping this page. One subscription covers both the web app and machine access — see API & MCP.
Private Equity List re-verifies investor profiles on a rolling cycle, pulling from the firm's own website and LinkedIn rather than a one-off import. This profile was last updated on 16 August, 2026. Something out of date here? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.