Yoav Zimmerman
FounderFounder at Third Chair · Cofounder at Trendpop
San Francisco, California, United States
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About
Yoav Zimmerman founded Trendpop, a YC-backed media/entertainment company that reached $1M+ ARR with clients including Universal Music Group and MrBeast, before starting Third Chair. He previously worked on machine learning at Google and early-stage AI ventures.
Founder at Third ChairYC X25
Intro paths
Yoav went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Third Chair's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Yoav can intro founders to Third Chair's investors below.
Third Chair's investors · 3
Co-founders at Third Chair
Cofounder at TrendpopYC W21
Intro paths
Yoav went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Yoav can intro founders to Trendpop's investors below.
Trendpop's investors · 1
Co-founders at Trendpop
Experience
- Third Chair (YC X25)CEO / Co-Foundercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- TrendpopAdvisor2024San Francisco, California, United States
- TrendpopCEO / Cofounder2020 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Determined AIEngineering, Product, Sales2018 — 2020San Francisco, California
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2016 — 2018Mountain View, California
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2015Mountain View, CA
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Web CrawlingXPathXQueryRDFSPARQLMachine LearningComputer ScienceArtificial IntelligenceMatlabLanguages English · Hebrew · Mandarin · Python
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Yoav Zimmerman?
- Yoav Zimmerman founded Trendpop, a YC-backed media/entertainment company that reached $1M+ ARR with clients including Universal Music Group and MrBeast, before starting Third Chair. He previously worked on machine learning at Google and early-stage AI ventures.
- Where does Yoav Zimmerman work?
- Yoav Zimmerman is Founder of Third Chair and Cofounder at Trendpop.
- What companies did Yoav Zimmerman found?
- Yoav Zimmerman founded Third Chair, Trendpop.
- Where did Yoav Zimmerman go to school?
- Yoav Zimmerman studied at Y Combinator; UCLA (BS, Magna Cum Laude).
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Third Chair mafia3
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Also worked at Third Chair (YC X25)2
Also worked at Trendpop1
Also worked at Determined AI2
Also worked at Google2,000
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