Prior to joining TVP in 2022, Leo was Head of Venture Capital at NNS Advisers, the family office for Nassef Sawiris. While at NNS, he assembled and managed a large venture portfolio of direct and fund investments.
Leo was previously a Co-founder of M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where he built and led the U.S. investment team. He focused on early-stage investments in B2B SaaS, AI/ML, cybersecurity and future of work companies. His exited investments include Livongo (Nasdaq: LVGO, $18.5B acq. by Teladoc), Comfy (acq. by Siemens), Voicea (acq. by Cisco) and Zipwhip ($850M acq. by Twilio). Leo also led investments and served as Board Director / Observer at Agolo, CognitiveScale, Cooler Screens, Directly, GroundTruth, PandaDoc, Prevedere, RapidSOS, Skedulo, SpyCloud and WorkSpan.
Prior to M12, Leo was a Principal at Split Rock Partners where he backed entrepreneurs building leading software and cloud-based companies including Acquia ($1B exit to Vista Equity), BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), Black Duck Software ($565M acq. by Synopsys), Intacct ($850M acq. by Sage) and Vormetric ($400M acq. by Thales). Previously, Leo was an investor at Saints Capital and St. Paul Venture Capital, an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and in corporate development at AMD. He also served as a Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces.
Leo holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Grew up in Singapore and Jakarta, Indonesia, then got a one-way ticket to the US to attend college at UT Austin and have stayed ever since.
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My first entrepreneurial experience: Buying Big Macs during visits to Singapore, bringing them back to Jakarta and selling them to my McDonald’s deprived high school classmates. (Before the Golden Arches set up shop in Indonesia.)
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Ran with the bulls in Pamplona, slapped one on the butt, managed to survive.
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My wife is a rock star. She got a job as President and COO of a public company which is what got us to move to NYC after almost 20yrs in San Francisco.
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I love to golf, travel and cheer for the 49ers and Longhorns. Hook ’em!