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Derek Au

Venture Investment Lead, Orange Silicon Valley

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2016
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Board Observer on behalf of Orange
Sep 2016
PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.
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2018
Venture Principal, Orange Silicon Valley
Feb 2018
"Bringing Intelligence to Storage"​ At NGD Systems, we produce an innovative Intelligent platform that allows users to create, manage, and execute applications within our SSD storage solutions via our In-Situ Processing. This allows users to utilize core platforms in Storage, HPC, Server, Rack and Power solutions that allow for an optimal SW and HW ecosystem. The creation of a Computational Storage platform furthers the storage architect’s ability to scale their Storage needs.
2016
Board Observer on behalf of Orange
Sep 2016
PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.
Venture Principal, Orange Silicon Valley
Feb 2016
Wevr is an award winning interactive software studio. We collaborate with creators to build interact experiences and spatial apps, and provide a virtual studio platform for real-time 3D developers. WVS enables creators to easily collaborate, create and share their projects. We collaborate with creators to build virtual worlds and applications, including Harry Potter with WarnerMedia, an original IP collaboration with Jon Favreau, and the award-winning TheBlu virtual ocean simulation. Wevr’s world class leadership team is comprised of repeat successful venture-backed entrepreneurs, veteran AAA game designers and engineers, and Academy Award-winning digital entertainment pioneers who delivered billion dollar products. Wevr was included on Fast Company’s list of "Top 10 Most Innovative companies in AR/VR in 2017".
Venture Principal, Orange Silicon Valley
Feb 2016
Veniam is a tech startup accelerating the future of mobility by delivering the Internet of Moving Things. With an IP portfolio of 150+ patents, Veniam’s Intelligent Networking platform enables connected cars and autonomous vehicles to move massive amounts of data between vehicles and the cloud, at a fraction of the cost. Working with the world’s largest Auto OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, Veniam aims to improve the lives of millions of people through a new mobility ecosystem — one where connected vehicles are more than machines that carry people and goods, where the utility of vehicles is maximized and places are ultimately more human. The company was founded in March 2012 by pioneering technology researchers Professors João Barros and Susana Sargento and future mobility visionaries, Zipcar founder Robin Chase and CTO Roy Russell. Veniam is a global company with its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Engineering Center in Porto, Portugal and sales offices in Detroit, Munich and Tokyo. Contacts: New York, USA: +1 484 848 6579 Porto, Portugal: +351 220 731 344
Venture Principal, Orange Silicon Valley
Feb 2016
Chain builds cryptographic ledger systems to make financial services smarter, more secure, and more connected. Previous customers included market leaders like Visa, Nasdaq, and Citigroup as well as start-ups building novel financial products. The company raised $44M from Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures, Thrive Capital, and strategic partners including Visa, Nasdaq, Citi, Capital One, Fiserv, and Orange.