Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Norman Winarsky is Vice President of Ventures at SRI International. As such he is responsible for creating SRI's highest value venture and license opportunities. He is a founder of SRI's venture process, including venture and license incubation, seed funding, the Entrepreneur-In-Residence program, and Venture Capital engagement.

Winarsky was co-founder and board member of Siri, which was spun out from SRI in January 2008. Siri has now been incorporated into the Apple iPhone 4S. He is currently a board member of Desti, Tempo, and Kuato, all SRI spinoffs. He is also an advisory board member of IMRSV.

He chairs SRI's Commercialization Board and the nVention Board, a partnership with the venture capital community that develops early-stage investment opportunities.

Winarsky helped found approximately 30 ventures, published approximately 50 papers, and holds three patents with several pending. He has a particular focus on natural language, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. (See - http://nyti.ms/90nHFm)

He is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, and is also Chairman of the University of Chicago Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division. He was a member of the National Academy Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies, a National Science Foundation Fellow, an invited member of the mathematics department of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and an Assistant Professor at SUNY at Albany.

In 2011, Winarsky received the University of Chicago Alumni Service Award. In 2000, He and his team received an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in technological advancement. In addition, Winarsky has received RCA's highest honor, the Sarnoff Award.

Winarsky graduated with a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and was awarded Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In addition he was awarded the Paul J. Cohen award for the outstanding student in Mathematics.

Specialties:Development of ventures and licensing opportunities, from concept through market development, team building, seed funding, identification of investors, and launch.

Number of Partner Investments 2
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Jun 20, 2013
Tempo AI
SRI International
Series A - Tempo AI
$10M
Dec 1, 2011
Tempo AI
SRI International
No
Seed Round - Tempo AI
$2.5M
Number of Current Jobs 7
Number of Past Jobs 1
Norman Winarsky has 7 current jobs including Member at Platform Venture Studio, Venture Partner at Relay Ventures, and Executive in Residence at Relay Ventures. Additionally, Norman Winarsky has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder at Siri.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Siri
Co-Founder2008Apr 1, 2010
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 4
Norman Winarsky holds 6 board and advisor roles including Strategic Advisor at Dianavi Corporation, Advisory Board Member at Kasisto, and Board Advisor at IMRSV.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Radar Networks
Advisor
Kuato Studios
Board Member2012
Tempo AI
Board Member2013
Siri
Board Member
Number of Events 1
Norman Winarsky has participated in 1 event, Flying Upside Down on May 23, 2017.