Brian Hollins founded The Road Untraveled podcast where he interviews leading VCs and founders, giving him unusually broad pattern recognition across funds and stages beyond his own investing at Collide Capital. He built a $100M fund backing Black founders and serves as a founding board member at BLCKVC, positioning him as both a capital allocator and ecosystem builder for Black investors and entrepreneurs.

• Focuses heavily on championing underrepresented founders and diverse emerging managers. Frequently highlights the achievements of peers within the Black tech community, such as praising the team at BLCKVC or moderating panels on raising capital while Black for the Harvard HBS African American Student Union.
• Self-described data enthusiast with a strong background in economics. Enjoys analyzing macroeconomic trends, such as breaking down the Big Mac Index to understand purchasing power parity or comparing global market valuations in regions like Cairo and the Nordics.
• Active involvement in the operational realities of building a firm and supporting portfolio companies. transparently discusses the challenges of building a fund from scratch at Collide Capital and uses the platform to crowdsource resources, such as asking for recommendations on Series A investors who specialize in go-to-market strategies.
• Specific interest in early-stage innovation within mobile commerce and shifting communication behaviors. Explicitly asked for thought partners to help evaluate seed deals in the mobile commerce space and has observed that email as a professional channel may be reaching a breaking point due to saturation.
• Dedication to community building and knowledge sharing through media and events. Hosts the VCPerspectives podcast to discuss industry trends like data moats with other investors and consistently amplifies the work of ecosystem partners like Kauffman Fellows and IncludedVC.