# Shan-Lyn Ma

> Shan-Lyn Ma is a seed investor at Zola backing E-Commerce and Fashion. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Zola
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shanlynma
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shanlynm?lang=en

Shan-Lyn Ma is a seed investor at Zola in New York focused on E-Commerce and Fashion. Shan-Lyn Ma is Co-founder and CEO of Zola, the wedding company reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience by combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. Zola launched in 2013 and quickly became the fastest growing wedding company in the country. Today, Zola carries over 500 brands—from registry staplesto up-and-coming designers—and over half a million couples have used the platform. The company’s suite of tools includes: the premier all-in-one wedding registry, free wedding websites, a guest-list manager, customizable checklist and beautiful save the dates and wedding invitations. Before starting her company, Shan was Chief Product Officer of Chloe + Isabel. Prior to that, Shan was Gilt Groupe’s first Product Lead where she led key new business launches, including their successful foray into mobile. Additionally, she was Creator and General Manager of Gilt Taste, the brand’s food and wine division. Before her time at Gilt, Shan held product and marketing roles at Yahoo!. She holds a degree in BCommerce with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and an MBA from Stanford University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 30% |
| Fashion | 3 | 15% |
| Analytics | 3 | 15% |
| Supply Chain Management | 3 | 15% |
| B2B | 2 | 10% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 65% |
| Series A | 5 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 80% |
| France | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Radar Therapeutics | Radar Therapeutics pioneer in treatment modality, precision-expressed mRNA-based therapeutics. | $13.4M | Seed | May 23, 2024 |  |
| MiLa | MiLa is a food company that offers Chinese street foods to consumers. To them, it is so much more than just food - it’s about sharing honest representation of their experiences as multicultural individuals and showing their friends, family, and the Asian American diaspora that there is a definitive place in U.S. food culture for people who look andeat like them.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. | $10M | Series A | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| Trendsi | 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. | $25M | Series A | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Archive | Archive is a technology company that builds customized resale programs for brands to take ownership of their secondhand markets. We work with brands such as The North Face, Oscar de la Renta, and Marimekko to create bespoke, authentic resale experiences that keep clothing in wear longer, while simultaneously bringing in a new revenue stream,building customer loyalty, and driving new customer acquisition. Our world-class technology and design teams offer infinite flexibility to build a unique experience tailored to each brand, and our logistics expertise enables a variety of resale models including peer-to-peer, take-back, returns, and brand-owned inventory. | $8M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| VIOLETTE_FR | VIOLETTE FR is a multi-category line that includes skincare, hair, and makeup made with safe and effective vegan and cruelty-free ingredients. Its goal is to celebrate individuality while instilling the French mentality of celebrating imperfection. | $7M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Jow | Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France. | $7M | Seed | Dec 09, 2019 |  |
| Deliverr | Deliverr is a startup company that provides shipping services for e-commerce businesses. It helps the online marketplace to meet shipping standards, avoiding late shipment penalties for orders. The company is driven by a mission to enable any seller, regardless of size, to delight its customers with fast and cost-effective fulfillment. It wasfounded in 2017 by Michael Krakaris and Harish Abbott and is based in San Francisco, California. | $23M | Series B | Sep 24, 2019 |  |
| Swiftly | Swiftly is the AI platform purpose-built for retail, serving retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Swiftly's AI agents unify data, automate workflows, and power the marketing that drives measurable growth — connecting shopper engagement, operations, and personalized experiences into one intelligent platform. Swiftly AI is built on theindustry's largest proprietary retail dataset: live transactions, 9 million products, and the closed-loop campaign outcomes of 33,000 stores. That foundation powers faster decisions, smarter execution, and AI-native experiences across the retail ecosystem. Trusted by leading retailers, wholesalers, and hundreds of iconic brands, Swiftly accelerates growth, reduces operational drag, and sets a new standard for what AI can do in retail. | $15.6M | Seed | Sep 10, 2019 |  |
| Vic.ai | Vic.ai is pioneering the use of autonomy and intelligence to digitally transform accounting and finance processes to improve productivity, decision-making and ROI. The company's global customers include accounting firms, enterprise, and mid-market finance teams seeking to embrace automation and AI to improve financial performance. Vic.ai isaddressing the most manual and inefficient task in accounting – invoice processing – to improve its speed and scalability, and ultimately enable customers to reinvent their accounts payable operations. | $11.2M | Series A | Sep 08, 2019 |  |
| Deliverr | Deliverr is a startup company that provides shipping services for e-commerce businesses. It helps the online marketplace to meet shipping standards, avoiding late shipment penalties for orders. The company is driven by a mission to enable any seller, regardless of size, to delight its customers with fast and cost-effective fulfillment. It wasfounded in 2017 by Michael Krakaris and Harish Abbott and is based in San Francisco, California. | $7.1M | Series A | Oct 06, 2018 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Outlander Fund I Archimedes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Female Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/female-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Zola

VC Fund · New York, United States

Zola is a wedding company that reinvents the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in the couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating a first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

5 contacts available at Zola.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Felix Lung | CTO and Founder | — |
| Nobu Nakaguchi | CDO and Founder | — |
| Rachel Jarrett | President & COO | — |
| Shan-Lyn Ma | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shan-lyn-ma |
| Kevin Ryan | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-ryan |

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## FAQ

### What does Shan-Lyn Ma invest in?

Shan-Lyn Ma invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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 Shan-Lyn Ma?

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### When did Shan-Lyn Ma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shan-Lyn Ma closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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