Evan Zimmerman
CEO And Cofounder at Jovono
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Zimmerman is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building AI-first products that streamline complex, specialist workflows—most recently leading Edge (YC W23) to help patent lawyers draft higher-quality patents at scale. Trained as a University of Chicago economist and Berkeley Law Dean’s Scholar, he combines legal expertise, product instincts, and a track record in patent commercialization to bridge law, biotech data, and software. Evan also invests through Jovono, backing ambitious founders across stages, and previously co-founded a consumer-product patent licensing business that drove millions of unit sales. A published writer on technology and law and a former technology chair for global health initiatives, he brings both strategic rigor and a hands-on builder’s mentality to mission-driven tech.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
W23, W23 at Y CombinatorDoctor of Law - JD, Doctor of Law - JD at University of California, Berkeley - School of LawVUS Economics, VUS Economics at Harvard UniversityBachelor’s Degree Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Economics at University of Chicago
English
Github Skills (114)
minecraft10
unlock10
discord-js10
spigot10
openweathermap10
java10
weather-api10
bukkit10
discord10
mac-address10
weather10
plugin10
discord-bot10
server10
gameplay9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EazyFTW/NPC-Lib
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Minecraft NPC library for spigot 1.8-1.16 servers.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
minecraftmcbukkitspigotnpc
TechsCode/TechDiscordBot
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
The unique Discord Bot powering all of Tech's Discords
Contributions:235 commits, 8 PRs, 244 pushes in 2 years
discord-jsdiscordsdiscordbotdiscord-bot
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