Olivier Zimmer is the co-founder and CEO of Spate, a machine intelligence solution for finding the next big trend in beauty and consumer goods. Spate analyzes over 10 billion consumer behavior signals from across the web to identify new whitespace opportunities for brands.
Previously, Olivier spent 10 years at Google as a data scientist, where he co-founded Google's Trendspotting division while leading the data science team in NYC. He spotted trends such as face masks, turmeric and cold brew before it was a thing.
He graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay) and the University of California Berkeley; he is an alumnus of the incubator Y Combinator (S18).