Derek E. Canton

Career path.

1. OpenAI

   Member of GTM Staff

   Feb 2026 - Present
2. Astronaut

   Advisor

   Oct 2025 - Present
3. Enlightapp

   Advisor

   Jan 2023 - Present
4. Blustream Corporation

   Advisor

   May 2018 - Present
5. Professional Speaker - Derek Canton

   Storytelling for Lasting Change

   Jan 2015 - Present
6. Forbes

   Forbes Judge: Under 30 Local List: Boston

   Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
7. Mastercard

   Start Path In Solidarity program

   Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
8. On Deck

   On Deck Scale Fellow (ODS4)

   Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
9. Google

   Google for Startups Accelerator: Black Founders Class of 2022

   Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
10. Techstars

    Techstars NYC '21

    Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
11. TIKI

    Advisor

    Oct 2020 - Jul 2025
12. Future Founders

    Future Founders Fellow

    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
13. MassChallenge

    Entrepreneur in Residence - Paerpay

    Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
14. DCU FinTech Innovation Center

    Winter 2019 Cohort - paerpay

    Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
15. MassChallenge

    2018 Boston Finalist - Paerpay

    May 2018 - Jan 2019
16. Dell EMC

    Sr. Analyst, Project/Program Manager

    Oct 2017 - May 2018
17. Paerpay

    CEO & Founder

    Jul 2017 - Dec 2025
18. Derek Design

    Lead Product Designer & Solutions Architect

    Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
19. Money20/20

    Hackathon Winner

    Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
20. EMC

    Marketing Development Associate - Hybrid Cloud Platforms Solutions Enablement Center

    May 2016 - Oct 2017
21. EMC

    Marketing Development Associate - Hybrid Cloud Platforms Org Enablement Business Operations

    Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
22. Unum

    Scholar Program - Policy Administration

    Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
23. G1G God is Good

    CEO & Founder

    Mar 2012 - Jan 2015