# Ella Zhang

> Ella Zhang is a seed investor at Trendsi backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Trendsi
- Location: Chaoyang, China
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 92%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://cn.linkedin.com/in/ella-zhang-992b9817

Ella Zhang is a seed investor at Trendsi in Chaoyang focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Ella received her bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Ella Zhang is the Managing Partner, Head of YZi Labs.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 38% |
| FinTech | 4 | 31% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 15% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 8% |
| Farming | 1 | 8% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 8% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 23% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 8% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |
| South Korea | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Predict | Predict is a forecasting platform that hosts prediction markets. |  | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| APRO Oracle | APRO Oracle delivers full data support across the ecosystem. It is the most widely incorporated oracle within the Bitcoin environment. APRO Oracle uses TVWAP to accurately calculate prices by aggregating prices from leading institutional-grade data suppliers and exchanges. |  | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| CEA Industries | CEA Industries is an agriculture company that offers indoor cultivation services. | $500M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 28, 2025 |  |
| Digital Asset | Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $135M | Series E | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| CERE Network | Cere Network is a blockchain CRM ecosystem platform optimized for service data integration and collaboration. The Cere Blockchain solutions capture the entire customer journey on the blockchain and stores key user data such as purchases, achievements, and usage in the user wallet. | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 19, 2019 |  |
| Marlin | Marlin is a layer-0 scaling solution for public blockchains. | $3M | Seed | Jul 10, 2019 |  |
| Marlin | Marlin is a layer-0 scaling solution for public blockchains. | $3M | Seed | Jul 10, 2019 |  |
| CERE Network | Cere Network is a blockchain CRM ecosystem platform optimized for service data integration and collaboration. The Cere Blockchain solutions capture the entire customer journey on the blockchain and stores key user data such as purchases, achievements, and usage in the user wallet. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 03, 2019 |  |
| CERE Network | Cere Network is a blockchain CRM ecosystem platform optimized for service data integration and collaboration. The Cere Blockchain solutions capture the entire customer journey on the blockchain and stores key user data such as purchases, achievements, and usage in the user wallet. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 03, 2019 |  |
| CERE Network | Cere Network is a blockchain CRM ecosystem platform optimized for service data integration and collaboration. The Cere Blockchain solutions capture the entire customer journey on the blockchain and stores key user data such as purchases, achievements, and usage in the user wallet. |  | Seed | Jul 03, 2019 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arrington XRP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-xrp-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Arrington XRP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Binance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/binance) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kenetic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenetic-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Trendsi

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Trendsi is an online fashion B2B marketplace that makes it easy for sellers to build their businesses by providing wholesale inventory. The company combines its technology and supply chain capability to help anyone start and grow their business at minimum risk. No upfront inventory or subscription cost, one-stop access to quality merchandise atgreat prices.

3 contacts available at Trendsi.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ella Zhang | Co-Founder and CEO | — |
| Maddie Davidson | Co-Founder | — |
| Sherwin Xia | Co-Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Ella Zhang invest in?

Ella Zhang invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series E stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ella Zhang?

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### When did Ella Zhang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ella Zhang closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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