Derek Chan

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Angel Investor, Independent - hardware · venture capital · energy

Independent
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
University of Pennsylvania
English
Investing
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Overview

25 years around startups; now investing in climate. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Deloitte and HubSpot. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in climate
  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Questions about climate
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Decks without a clear ask
Skills
venture capitalenergyclimate techhardware
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into Series A climate in Southeast Asia

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
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Happy to follow a strong lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

New York, NYventure capitalhardwareenergy
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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    May 2026 - Present
    Independent · 5 mo · Contract · New York, NY
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Backed 38 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 38 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Nov 2022 - Mar 2026
    Deloitte · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Moved 87% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
    HubSpot · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Backed 17 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
    Lockheed Martin · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Backed 50 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2013 - Jul 2016
    Procter & Gamble · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Led the migration of 77 services to venture capital.
    • Built the experimentation framework 22 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. University of Pennsylvania
    BS, Engineering
    1996 - 2000

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