Jimson Yang

About_Me.txt

Overview

Jimson Yang

San Francisco, CA · jimsonyangbusiness@gmail.com

I co-founded Aventos, an AI anime studio, after a few years doing a little bit of everything at startups — sales, GTM, frontend engineering, and a stint on the VC side doing due diligence. I build my own backend for fun, ship frontend for work, and I'm currently trying to figure out how to make an AI-generated anime that's actually emotionally powerful and not just fast-paced slop.

Aventos

co-founder · present

98.5M

views via publisher deal

$100K

pre-seed raised

3.89

GPA · UMich

Elsewhere

GitHub → YouTube →

Experience

Co-Founder — Aventos

May 2025 – Present · San Francisco, CA

AI anime studio. Own the full stack of building it — product, engineering, and go-to-market, including testing anime-style content as a marketing channel for B2B SaaS. Landed a publisher deal that's driven 98.5M views, a distribution deal with BlueBox.tv, and turned internal tooling into a platform with its first $10K in revenue.

Founder — Project GEO

2024 – 2025

AEO/LLM citation tracker — tracks how well a brand shows up when people ask ChatGPT or Claude AI questions about brand discoverability. Built the full tech stack solo and took it 0 to 1 in B2B SaaS sales.

Co-Founder, Business — Pink Inference

2023 – 2024

Business side of a deep-tech venture studio spanning wetware/biological computing to oil-and-gas-powered data centers. Raised a $100K pre-seed round from 1517 Fund.

Intern — CitySide Ventures

Mar 2023 – Jul 2024

Wrote and reviewed due diligence reports across an industry-agnostic portfolio — healthcare, SaaS, deep tech — for investors.

Summer Intern — Arboretum Ventures

Apr 2023 – Jul 2023

Due diligence on healthcare companies. Learned cap tables and deal analysis firsthand.

Open Experience.pdf →

Projects

Companies & products

Tap any row to open it and see more.

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Aventos.app

AI anime studio — 98.5M views via publisher deal, BlueBox.tv distribution.

GEO

Project GEO

AEO/LLM citation tracker — solo-built, 0 → 1 in B2B SaaS sales. Opens in Projects → For Work.

Side projects

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Projects folder

Work builds (Seedance tool, Manhwa Reader, client sites) plus my self-hosted playground at projects.jimsonyang.com — Soundboard, a storage write-up, Jet Lag: SF.

Education

University of Michigan

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

BBA · Magna Cum Laude · 3.89 GPA · 2021 – 2025

Contact

Get in touch

Emailjimsonyangbusiness@gmail.com

GitHubgithub.com/umich2021 →

YouTubeAventos channel →

Send an email

Aventos.app

Overview

Videos

Platform

Aventos

Aventos is an AI anime studio — short-form, AI-generated anime built end to end, from concept and screenwriting to voice, animation, and post. The bet: anime-style storytelling doesn't just work as entertainment, it works as a marketing channel for B2B SaaS companies who all sound and look the same.

70K+

trailer views

98.5M

views via publisher deal

BlueBox.tv

distribution partner

Videos

Platform

We turned Aventos's internal AI-video tooling — script-to-render pipeline, batch generation, asset management — into a creative-suite platform for other studios. The first paying customer was our own production team, buying generation credits to prove it out before opening it up further.

We also landed a publisher deal for "My Cat Is a Vegetarian" and a distribution deal with BlueBox.tv to get the content out further.

$10K

first platform revenue

Projects

For Work

Things I've built to ship — a solo product, internal tools, client sites, and pipelines. Source is on GitHub.

GEO

Project GEO

An answer-engine optimization tool — tracks how often and how well a brand shows up when people ask ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants about brand discoverability. Built the full stack solo, from the citation-crawling pipeline to the dashboard, and took it 0 → 1 in B2B SaaS sales.

Solo buildAEOB2B SaaS

FA

Seedance Internal Tool

Internal tool for the production team to generate, review, and archive AI video through BytePlus Seedance — batch jobs, a review pass, and a searchable archive so nothing gets regenerated twice.

FastAPIReactBytePlus Seedance

MR

Manhwa Reader

A reader built to make sense of messy manhwa file collections — inconsistent folder names, out-of-order chapters, mixed image formats — and turn them into something you can actually sit down and read.

Local libraryReader UI

TB

Tableau Client Site

A website build for a client — design to deployed.

Client workFront-end

For Fun

Little things I build for myself — half-finished, personal, or just not meant for a public audience.

projects.jimsonyang.com

My self-hosted playground — small tools and write-ups, each on its own subdomain, running on one tiny ARM box.

Open ↗

SB

Soundboard

Tap a tile to drop a meme sound effect into whatever call you're on. A web version of an old Android app — favorites, a quiet/loud toggle, and an optional Twilio "bot mode" that joins a conference line.

WebTwilioAndroid origin

B2

Storage

A write-up on the small CLI I built to move my files off Google and Dropbox onto encrypted Backblaze B2 — two folders, two sync rules, and the cost math that made it worth doing.

Write-uprcloneBackblaze B2

JL

Jet Lag: SF

A mobile app for playing Jet Lag: The Game across San Francisco neighborhoods — cards, timers, and a map, so nobody has to be the one holding the rulebook.

MobileMaps

Experience.pdf