# Yuxin Zhu

> Yuxin Zhu is the co-founder and CEO of Replo, a San Francisco low-code platform that lets ecommerce brands build high-converting Shopify landing pages without writing code. A UC Berkeley computer scientist, he first made his name building Berkeleytime, a course-scheduling tool that grew to over a million annual sessions and was acquired by the University of California. After six years engineering and managing product teams at Uber through its IPO, he reunited with college friend Noah Gilmore to launch Replo in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. The company has raised over $8 million and onboarded thousands of brands, much of it on word-of-mouth growth.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Replo
- **Organizations:** Replo, Uber, Yelp, Berkeleytime, Fivestars
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded and sold Berkeleytime to the University of California; it still serves over 1 million sessions a year, Helped launch new Uber products across four continents and supported the company through its IPO, Co-founded Replo (YC S21) and scaled it to thousands of ecommerce brands

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Co-founded Berkeleytime, a course-scheduling platform, while a freshman at UC Berkeley
- **2012-2013** — Software Engineer at Fivestars; member of research staff at St. John's University
- **2013-2015** — Software Engineer at Yelp
- **2015** — Berkeleytime acquired by the University of California
- **2015-2021** — Senior Software Engineer at Uber, managing product, design and engineering teams through the company's IPO
- **2021** — Co-founded Replo with Noah Gilmore in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch
- **2022** — Launched Replo for Shopify; onboarded 1,000+ brands and 300 paying customers in three months
- **2023** — Announced $4.2M seed round led by investors including Figma Ventures, Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures and Guillermo Rauch

## Achievements

- Co-founded and sold Berkeleytime to the University of California; it still serves over 1 million sessions a year
- Helped launch new Uber products across four continents and supported the company through its IPO
- Co-founded Replo (YC S21) and scaled it to thousands of ecommerce brands
- Raised over $8 million for Replo from Figma, Y Combinator, Vercel's Guillermo Rauch, General Catalyst, Infinity Ventures and others
- Grew Replo's early traction almost entirely through organic word-of-mouth

## Latest updates

- **2023-02** — Replo announced a $4.2M seed round to serve mid-market and enterprise ecommerce companies.

## Links

- Website: https://replo.app
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuxinzhu
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/yuxinzoo

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