Evan J. Zimmerman is an entrepreneur, investor, and writer. Evan is the co-founder of Edge, a patent assistant software company that leverages AI to help patent practitioners. Edge is backed by leading investment firms like Y Combinator and used all over the world by patent attorneys and agents in every field of art. Edge's customers include Fortune 500 and Am Law 100 firms as well as boutiques and sole practitioners. He is also the founder of Jovono, an investment firm that invests in paradigm-shifting technology companies. Through Jovono, Evan has invested in leading firms at various stages in their lifecycle, including Proof, Anduril, Zeekit, Limit, Sofar Ocean, and Persist.

Previously, Evan was Chairman of the Clinton Health Access Initiative technology council, which advises the technology of global public health in dozens of partner countries and is a member of the strategy board for Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine at USC. He has been recognized as a leader in business with awards like Forbes 30 Under 30 2023.

Evan also speaks and writes on technology, with pieces in top publications like Berkeley Technology Law Review, Techcrunch, Stat News, Palladium Magazine, the California Management Review, and others. He was inducted as the youngest member of the MAK Museum in Vienna's Biennale Circle, which planned the 2017 Vienna Biennale on the “Future Of Work.

Evan has a law degree from Berkeley Law School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar with certificates in technology law and business law and won a Prosser award. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he was a University Scholar, with general and departmental honors in economics and conducted his thesis work on the economics of embargoes as a visiting undergraduate at Harvard University.