Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$250,000.00Target Investment:
$150,000.00
Skills
Education
- CM
- TU
- TU
- TU
Lists including Istvan
Work Experience
2018
Managing Director
2018
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
2021
COO
2021
2013
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.
2015 - 2018
Venture Capitalist
2015 - 2018
Led investment theses in machine learning, robotics, autonomous systems, mobile video streaming, and virtual and augmented reality.
2010 - 2012
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.
2008 - 2010
Senior Associate
2008 - 2010
Seed-stage venture capital fund.
2010 - 2010
Consultant
2010 - 2010
Due diligence and financial modeling for LBO deals.
2009 - 2009
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.
2003 - 2008
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)
2004 - 2005
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.