Norman Winarsky

About

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. (

Investment Focus

Location

San Francisco, US