Istvan Jonyer

Managing Director

2018 - Current

Pre-seed and seed-stage firm providing capital, mentorship, and hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs building transformative technology companies. https://sidespin.vc https://angel.co/s/sidespin-ventures/7WZ3Q

COO

2021

President

2013

Expert software analysis and business strategy services for due diligence (investments, mergers, acquisitions), and intellectual property matters in machine learning, telecommunications, networking, smart devices, and cloud computing.

Venture Capitalist

2015 - 2018

Led investment theses in machine learning, robotics, autonomous systems, mobile video streaming, and virtual and augmented reality.

Head of Strategic Device Partnerships, Google TV

2010 - 2012

Awards: Google TV Hall of Fame, Outstanding Leadership, Operating Committee Award, Peer Award. Responsible for scaling the Google TV vertical via device partnerships. Architected the launch process, from partner on-boarding through technical implementation to final device approval and launch. Partners included chipset vendors (Intel, Marvel, etc.) and OEMs (Sony, Samsung, LG, Vizio, etc.). This role merges skill sets from product management, commercialization, business development, and entrepreneurship.

Senior Associate

2008 - 2010

Seed-stage venture capital fund.

Consultant

2010 - 2010

Due diligence and financial modeling for LBO deals.

Summer Associate

2009 - 2009

Venture capital. Led due diligence efforts on spinout opportunities with multinational companies, such as General Electric and OKI Data -- for a total of 9 opportunities over the summer. Market Studies: Detailed market research (primary and secondary) and presentation to the partnership on: - The Future of Videoconferencing. - Intellectual Property Risk in Early Stage Equity Investments. - State of Online Secondary Markets. - Early Stage Executive Compensation.

Assistant Professor

2003 - 2008

Select achievements: • Award-winning publication at the Florida International Conference for Artificial Intelligence, 2003 • Founded the Tulsa Supercomputing Center, the largest such facility at OSU • Principal investigator on National Science Foundation and Department of Transportation research grants • Published peer-reviewed book chapters, journals, and conference articles • Ranked among the top faculty for teaching • Organizer: -- Data Mining Special Track at the Florida International Conference for Artificial Intelligence -- Grammar Induction Workshop at the International Machine Learning Conference (ICML)

Founder and CEO

2004 - 2005

Stock option search engine with a wide array of filtering options, including ones from the latest academic research on bankruptcy prediction. Invented proprietary algorithms for pre-filtering to dramatically reduce real-time market data streaming costs and offer a service at a dramatically lower price point than the competition.