Partner
Istvan Jonyer
Managing Director, Sidespin Ventures
- Firm
- Sidespin Ventures
- Title
- Managing Director
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 18 September 2026
About
is an investor, scientist, engineer, and serial entrepreneur with extensive research, development, and management experience in various areas of computer science with leading technology companies. Dr. Jonyer has been a venture capitalist with four funds covering frontier technologies like machine learning, autonomous vehicles, AR/VR, and streaming media delivery. At Google, he was responsible for launching Google TV (later Chromecast) devices with OEMs and SoC vendors such as Sony, Samsung, LG, Sharp, Vizio, Logitech, Intel, Marvell, and MediaTek. Earlier, he designed 3G mobile communication systems for Nortel Networks. Istvan was also an Associate Professor of Computer Science at OSU, with an NSF-funded machine learning research program.
Background
- Education
- Istvan holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.Source (opens in a new tab)
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