David Yu
Auckland, New Zealand
Founder at ECOMI / ORBIS | Founder at ECOMI / ORBIS
Summary
David Yu is backed by 27 years of experience in the games and collectibles industry. At the age of 17, he founded Games R Us Ltd., where he transformed an old box of Star Wars and Star Trek memorabilia, along with various toys and comics, into a thriving entertainment and hobby stores. Since then, Yu has been deeply involved in the licensing and retail industry for over 20 years, working with intellectual property and transforming gaming and collectible licenses into globally recognized products. He co-founded and served as CEO of VeVe since 2018. Under his leadership, VeVe has become the world leader in digital collectibles, with a global community generating sales of over 9 million digital collectibles through the VeVe platform store. Inspired by the founders’ long-time passion for collecting, VeVe is both an app and a web platform designed to replicate and enhance the collecting experience. It features a retail store, secondary marketplace, and various interactive features that allow users to engage with their collectibles and each other. These features include 3D AR photo and video mode, the ability to build and share personalized showrooms, comics readable in AR, and options for sharing collecting experiences on social media. VeVe leverages blockchain technology in the background, making it accessible to the mass market. With its focus on quality and the collector experience, many of the world’s leading brands, artists, and creatives, including Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Warner Bros., DreamWorks, MGM, Universal, and more, have trusted VeVe to bring their most valuable intellectual property to this new channel. David Yu's accomplishments include winning the Extraordinary Growth in Emerging Business award at the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise International Business Awards 2022. VeVe was also announced as the fastest-growing company in New Zealand on the Deloitte Fast 50 Index 2023. In the same year, Yu won the EY New Zealand Master Entrepreneur 2023 award and represented New Zealand in Monaco as a finalist for the EY World Entrepreneur 2024.
Founder
ECOMI / ORBIS
1 Apr 2017 - Present
9yrs 4mos
Auckland, New Zealand
An idea that began in 2017 (long before NFT was a buzzword) and launched to the public in early 2021, VeVe is the world leader in digital collectibles, with a global community generating sales of over 7m digital collectibles in the VeVe online store. Inspired by the founders’ long time passion for collecting, VeVe is an app and web platform that is designed to replicate and enhance the collecting experience, with a retail store, secondary marketplace and features that allow our community to interact with their collectibles and each other including 3D AR photo mode, build and share your own showroom, comics readable in AR and the ability to share their collecting experiences on social. VeVe utilises blockchain technology in the background but is designed to be easily accessible by the mass market. With VeVe’s focus on quality and the collector experience, many of the world's leading and most interesting brands, artists and creatives have trusted VeVe to bring their most valuable intellectual property to this new channel including Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Warner Bros, Dreamworks, MGM, Universal and more.
Executive Director
Binji FinTech, Inc.
1 May 2019 - Present
7yrs 3mos
Greater Los Angeles Area
Binji App-Based Banking For Today's Digital World It’s Money’s OS Binji Card lets you sync and fund from up to 24 debit and/or credit cards and works in tandem with our full-service, branchless banking app. Our goal is to empower people to take control of their financial lives. From direct deposit to P2P payments, Binji is all you need to pay and get paid in today's digital world. It's like an operating system for money. "App-Based Banking, Digital Display Mastercard, Peer-to-Peer Payments, 24 Debit/Credit Card Consolidation, all on one Binji Card. No monthly fees, No Overdraft fees, Two Day Advance Direct Deposit and over 35,000 FREE ATM's. Binji is the best way to pay and get paid in today's digital world. It’s Money’s OS."
Director
Australia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Taipei
1 Jan 2017 - Present
9yrs 7mos
Taipei City, Taiwan
To promote the closest possible relationship between Australia and New Zealand and Taiwan by providing mechanisms for business networking, introductions, information sharing and social contacts. Membership is business led but embraces groups or individuals with government, education and social links to New Zealand and Australia.
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