Number of Portfolio Companies 3
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder and President
  • Primary Organization 
    Lyft
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel

John Zimmer is the co-founder and President of Lyft, the on-demand ridesharing platform, that was founded in 2007 with Zimride as its first of two products built to create a more social, sustainable and affordable transportation system.

John’s interest in peer-to-peer transportation began at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration. Upon

learning that only 20% of seats in cars on highways are occupied, he began working on ways to use existing information infrastructures to solve the problem of unused empty seats. After graduating first in his class, John spent two years at Lehman Brothers before (luckily) leaving to rideshare his way from New York to San Francisco to join co-founder Logan Green in launching Zimride. John was recognized in 2009 as one of Businessweek's Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25, and has spoken at top tier events such as SXSW, The Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) International Conference and Stanford Business School.

With Lyft, John hopes to fix the current state of transportation across the country, and eventually around the world, to make cities safer, more affordable and better connected. Since unveiling the product in June 2012, Lyft has quickly become one of the fastest-growing tech companies with more than $80 million raised from leading investors Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund and has been featured in The Economist, the New York Times and on NBC’s TODAY Show. Lyft is currently available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, Boston and Washington, D.C., with more than a million rides shared on the platform to date.

Number of Investments 3
John Zimmer has made 3 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - Cradle on Nov 17, 2022, when Cradle raised
€5.5M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Nov 17, 2022
Cradle
Seed Round - Cradle
€5.5M
Feb 10, 2022
KoBold Metals
Series B - KoBold Metals
$192.5M
Sep 9, 2020
Deel
Series B - Deel
$30M
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 2
John Zimmer is the Co-Founder and President at Lyft. Additionally, John Zimmer has had 2 past jobs including Co-Founder at Zimride.
  • Lyft Co-Founder and PresidentJun 2012
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Zimride
Co-FounderJun 1, 2007Jul 12, 2013
Lehman Holdings
Analyst
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
John Zimmer holds 6 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Culdesac, Advisor at GuideOn, and Mentor at Boomtown Accelerators.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Sprig
Advisor
John Zimmer studied at Cornell University.
Number of News Articles 652
Funding RoundNov 17, 2022
Cradle raised €5,500,000 / Seed from Emily Leproust and 3 other investors
Funding RoundFeb 10, 2022
KoBold Metals raised $192,500,000 / Series B from Andreessen Horowitz and 10 other investors
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