Rachel Zimmer (she/her)

Rachel Zimmer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Simple Ventures - a new Canada-first start-up studio. Previously, she successfully exited a B2B marketplace business (5Crowd) and led the Reid Hoffman and Patrick Collison-backed startup studio, Entrepreneur First, in North America. In that role, she recruited and supported 120+ founders that have gone on to build 25+ venture backed companies. She has been named Emerging Entrepreneur by Toronto Board of Trade and 30 Under 30 by Marketing Magazine.