Leo Batalov

Partner, Global Co - Head Emerging Growth Companies & Venture Capital at DLA Piper

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
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Angel Investor
Dec 2023
🚨 Drowning in applications? Youre not alone Most talent teams at growth companies are in survival mode: 📄 Buried in resumes 📞 Swamped with screening calls 🔍 Still struggling to find top candidates Exhausting. And risky. Your best recruiters are burning out. When someone great gets missed, youre called reactive. If automation feels cold, your team takes the blame. It stings. Thats why we built Mokka. Three AI agents that source, screen, and pre-interview to surface top talent based on evidence—not guesswork. ✨ AI sourcing agent finds candidates from 850M+ profiles, 250+ job boards, and rediscovers talent in your ATS ✨ AI interviewing agent screens every resume and conducts pre-interviews (voice, text, or video—candidates choice) ✨ AI matching agent scores candidates with explainable rubrics and syncs results to your ATS What sets Mokka apart: ✅ Evidence-based—structured interviews and verified skills, not keyword scanning ✅ Great candidate experience (rated 4.7/5) – built for knowledge worker hiring ✅ Automates actual TA busywork (not just another chatbot) So your team can focus on what matters: real connections with top talent. 💚 Ready to see how? Book a demo at gomokka.com
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2023
Angel Investor
Dec 2023
🚨 Drowning in applications? Youre not alone Most talent teams at growth companies are in survival mode: 📄 Buried in resumes 📞 Swamped with screening calls 🔍 Still struggling to find top candidates Exhausting. And risky. Your best recruiters are burning out. When someone great gets missed, youre called reactive. If automation feels cold, your team takes the blame. It stings. Thats why we built Mokka. Three AI agents that source, screen, and pre-interview to surface top talent based on evidence—not guesswork. ✨ AI sourcing agent finds candidates from 850M+ profiles, 250+ job boards, and rediscovers talent in your ATS ✨ AI interviewing agent screens every resume and conducts pre-interviews (voice, text, or video—candidates choice) ✨ AI matching agent scores candidates with explainable rubrics and syncs results to your ATS What sets Mokka apart: ✅ Evidence-based—structured interviews and verified skills, not keyword scanning ✅ Great candidate experience (rated 4.7/5) – built for knowledge worker hiring ✅ Automates actual TA busywork (not just another chatbot) So your team can focus on what matters: real connections with top talent. 💚 Ready to see how? Book a demo at gomokka.com
2022
Partner, Global Co - Head of Emerging Growth Companies & Venture Capital
Apr 2022
DLA Piper is a global law firm helping our clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Our pursuit of innovation has transformed our delivery of legal services. With offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we deliver exceptional outcomes on cross-border projects, critical transactions and high-stakes disputes. Every day we help trailblazing organizations seize business opportunities and successfully manage growth and change at speed. Through our pro bono work and community investment around the world, we help create a more just and sustainable future. Visit dlapiper.com to discover more.
2020
Partner
Jan 2020
s16vc is a Founders for Founders fund focused on Pre-Seed to Series A investments into global-first tech companies. We build the fund as a product in public, invest in founders referred by the community, treat every founder request as our own, and play poker. s16vc is trusted by over 150 founders, operators, and investors, incl. founders of Datadog, UiPath, Miro, Hugging Face, Chargebee, Wolt, Supercell, Pitch, Picsart, and Intercom.
2012
Member of Investment Selection Committee
Aug 2012
RVC (Russian Venture Company) is the institutional investor, the first Fund of Funds in Russia. RVC was established in 2006 and was a pioneer Fund of Funds in Russia and as well as a pioneer with investment focus covering VC segment. RVC plays a significant role in fostering Russian VC market and innovation ecosystem development. Since 2015 RVC is also a Project Office of National Technology Initiative, a long-term technological development program designed up to 2035 to ensure the competitiveness of the Russian companies at the fundamentally new markets of the future. As of 2017, RVC has the portfolio of 22 funds and 212 fund companies (including direct co-investment). The total value of RVC-backed funds is $568M, where the share of RVCs investment obligations is $351M. $303M is the total volume of approved investments in innovation companies during the period of RVC’s operation. The investment focus is the PE&VC funds (primary, co-investments) with a key interest in high-tech funds and companies in different technology sectors. As for the regional activities, RVC has investments in the USA and Russia.
Partner
May 2012
Orrick is a global law firm focused on serving the Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure, Finance and Life Sciences & HealthTech sectors. Leading companies and new entrants call on our teams in 25+ markets worldwide for forward-looking, pragmatic advice on transactions, litigation and compliance matters. We bring distinctive quality, teamwork, and value to the table – and innovate in everything we do. We’re especially focused on attracting and inspiring the best legal talent.
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