Sidespin Ventures

Sidespin Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm investing in transformative and frontier technology companies, with particular focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence. The firm is sector agnostic within that mandate, excluding content, media, advertising, and information arbitrage, and targets new-market opportunities. Its technical remit spans machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer science.

The firm maintains a deliberately concentrated deployment pace, backing only a handful of new companies each year - selectivity it ties to the level of support it intends to provide. Sidespin invests at pre-seed and seed and expects to remain involved through follow-on rounds up to Series A. It participates alongside lead investors as well as in rounds without a traditional lead structure.

Alongside capital, Sidespin provides mentorship and hands-on operational assistance to portfolio company leaders, covering strategy, messaging, recruiting, introductions, and other needs. The firm does not require advisory shares in exchange for this assistance. Sidespin is backed by Managing Director Istvan Jonyer, Ph.D., whose background spans investing, science, engineering, and entrepreneurship in machine learning and computer science.