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Ella Zhang Built the Back Room - Then Went Looking for the Next Frontier
From Tencent’s founding e-commerce team to a garage-born fashion platform, Zhang learned to prize the infrastructure nobody sees. Now she is carrying that operator’s instinct back into venture investing at YZi Labs.
Sherwin Xia
Sherwin Xia is the co-founder and CEO of Trendsi, a San Francisco-based e-commerce supply chain infrastructure company that raised $30M total including a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Before Trendsi, he was one of the first employees at Lime and an analyst at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). A Stanford postgraduate, Xia co-founded Trendsi in late 2020 after spotting an opportunity to bring Asian S2B2C supply chain models to Western markets, targeting a demographic of small boutique sellers and stay-at-home moms building online fashion businesses. Trendsi's platform automates inventory forecasting, dropshipping, and custom branding for thousands of independent sellers.