I hope this email finds you well. I would like to compare performance of stin-offs compared to ventures that come out of a public lab/university, but the founders completely left the university before founding (background: I am a co-founder of Renaissance Fusion which was founded by a former Columbia university professor who decided to completely leave academic before founding while companies like Commonwealth Fusion Systems in the US or Proxima Fusion in Germany are more classic spin-offs).
Can you point me to any interesting people, research, blogs, websites or databases that have started to look into this? If you are interested we could also work together on this.
Big congrats Leo Polovets and Anna-Sofia Lesiv on launching Humba II. Can’t wait to see the impact you’ll make driving innovation in healthcare, energy, defense, and beyond. 🎉
Congrats!!🙌
Hello Leo,
I hope this communique finds you in a moment of stillness. Have huge respect for your work.
We’ve just opened the first door of something we’ve been quietly crafting for years—
A work not meant for markets, but for reflection and memory.
Not designed to perform, but to endure.
It’s called The Silent Treasury.
A place where judgment is kept like firewood: dry, sacred, and meant for long winters.
Where trust, patience, and self-stewardship are treated as capital—more rare, perhaps, than liquidity itself.
This first piece speaks to a quiet truth we’ve long sat with:
Why many modern PE, VC, Hedge, Alt funds, SPAC, and rollups fracture before they truly root.
And what it means to build something meant to be left, not merely exited.
It’s not short. Or viral. But it’s built to last.
And if it speaks to something you’ve always known but rarely seen expressed,
then perhaps this work belongs in your world.
The publication link is enclosed, should you wish to open it.
https://helloin.substack.com/p/built-to-be-left?r=5i8pez
Warmly,
The Silent Treasury
A vault where wisdom echoes in stillness, and eternity breathes.
Dear Leo,
I hope this email finds you well. I would like to compare performance of stin-offs compared to ventures that come out of a public lab/university, but the founders completely left the university before founding (background: I am a co-founder of Renaissance Fusion which was founded by a former Columbia university professor who decided to completely leave academic before founding while companies like Commonwealth Fusion Systems in the US or Proxima Fusion in Germany are more classic spin-offs).
Can you point me to any interesting people, research, blogs, websites or databases that have started to look into this? If you are interested we could also work together on this.
Thank you so much, Best Martin (mkupp@escp.eu)
Big congrats Leo Polovets and Anna-Sofia Lesiv on launching Humba II. Can’t wait to see the impact you’ll make driving innovation in healthcare, energy, defense, and beyond. 🎉