Intrepid

Intrepid is a financial technology company that brings innovation, inspiration, and opportunity to every entrepreneur and business in the creator economy.

Our core product "Superstar" is a creator marketing management software designed to automate the way data-driven marketing teams operate. It offers an integrated platform to manage the entire lifecycle of creator marketing campaigns. 

The objective is to streamline processes from the creator discovery phase to payments, all while leveraging data-driven insights and fostering enhanced collaboration among stakeholders.

I recruit customers, partners and lead our global community.

Co-Founder | Community | Growth 

Activate America

Producer of Amplified Avondale https://www.instagram.com/amplifiedavondale/ 

Activate America leads urban transformation and regenerative placemaking projects, creating vibrant cultural hubs for economic revitalization and fosters community connection and cultural diversity.

As the Founder and CEO of Activate America, I orchestrated a transformative journey that significantly impacted the local community. We've achieved remarkable milestones:

Community Development: Our festival transitioned from a homogenous gathering into a diverse and inclusive event, with over 1,000 monthly attendees representing a rich tapestry of backgrounds, fostering an inclusive sense of community and cultural diversity.

Revenue Growth: Doubled and tripled revenue for local merchants, contributing to the economic vitality of the community.

Urban Revitalization: Pioneered the creation of a net-new entertainment district, catalyzing urban revitalization and cultural enrichment.

Founder and CEO

Delivering over a hundred keynote speeches, panels, and moderated discussions on Fintech, Modern Banking, Web3, Blockchain, AI, and the Future of Work.

Translating deep tech trends into human-centric insights, driven by my entrepreneurial, executive recruiting, and advisory background.

Public Speaker

Silver Creek Partners

Full time through 2016, select long term clients through 2023. Global reach.
Key Contributions:

Recruited and onboarded over 2500 professionals, driving substantial revenue growth and innovation for diverse organizations. Hundreds of customers from idea stage to F50.
Functional areas: Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Development
Roles: CSuite to individual contributor.
Google, SAP, SingTel, AIA, Flipt, Anheiser Busch, Salesforce,

Key Accomplishments:
Scaled startup engineering teams from initial hires to robust units of up to 40 engineers.

Led talent acquisition for a HealhTech startup from idea to a teams 140+ employees.

Led talent acquisition efforts for a Fortune 100 electronics manufacturer, resulting in 35 senior manager and executive hires within 12 months.

Scaled a Fortune 50 insurance company's newly formed division from a single employee to 35 senior hires in just 18 months, including relocating 25 senior executives to Singapore.

Oversaw organizational design and talent acquisition for a corporate development and Innovation business unit, culminating in 14 executive-level hires.

Drove early success for startups, consistently recruiting first customers in zero to one environments.

Founder | Executive Recruiter

Intrepid Ventures

Intrepid Ventures was a Blockchain and Web3 startup studio and innovation lab for founders and chief innovation officers.

Customer-facing leader with a proven track record of success in growing and engaging communities, launching successful events, and building relationships in the blockchain and Web3 space.

Grew a global invite-only community from 0 to 30,000+ members in 18 months. Community led insights and guidance helped to shape the thinking of community members and position them for success in the rapidly evolving blockchain and Web3 space.

Developed and launched more than 20 sponsored events across Southeast Asia through ecosystem partners including Visa, Prudential, AIA, IFC World Bank, IBM, and others, attracting over 10,000 attendees. 

Facilitated community-driven innovation and collaboration, resulting in the launch of multiple successful blockchain/crypto products across insurance, fintech, security, and gaming.

Intrepid Ventures | Co-Founder | Blockchain & Web3 Venture Studio

Creator Economy | Influencer Marketing | Community | Sales and Partnerships | Recruiting

I help Influencer Marketing teams unify, automate, and scale their operations so they can focus on growth vs. administrative tasks.


I've recruited and helped build amazing teams (onboarded 2500+ professionals).
I've designed and built global communities from zero to 30K+.
Designed, launched and produced 18 Music and Art Festivals, 5 large scale conferences and 100+ events
Co-founded 4 startups in  Blockchain, Healthech, Fintech and AI/Automation.

Zach Piester

Boardy

Connector

Intrepid is a financial technology company that brings innovation, inspiration, and opportunity to businesses in the creator economy

Our core product "Superstar"  is an influencer relationship management system designed to automate the way data-driven marketing teams operate and collaborate. It offers an integrated platform to manage the entire lifecycle of influencer relationship management—streamlining the end-to-end process of the influencer onboarding, contracting, to payments, all while leveraging data-driven insights and fostering enhanced collaboration across departments.

Co-Founder & CEO

[THIS IS NOT THE SAME COMPANY AS ABOVE] Intrepid Ventures is a Web3 startup studio and innovation lab for founders and chief innovation officers.

Chief Executive Officer

Vectr Ventures

Vectr is a venture capital studio based in Hong Kong. We work with entrepreneurs to create game-changing companies, and combine investment, technology and business development to help founders expand into Asia.

Vice President Operations

Cipher

CIPHER is a D2C e-commerce fashion brand, that uses just-in-time manufacturing and supply-chain technology to deliver luxury men's fashion footwear to over 200 high-end independent boutiques and multi-brand department stores in 15 countries worldwide in less than 5 days. Lane Crawford, Harvey Nichols

Founder and Designer

RBC Ventures

RBC Venture Partners® is a multi-stage venture fund focusing on Canadian start-ups and technology innovations across Financial technology, TMT, New Media, Consumer and Internet.

Analyst

I’m Collin, founder of Intrepid, where we’re building AI-driven fintech tools that make creator-brand partnerships faster, fairer, and a whole lot easier. 

Our platforms—Superstar and Fantastic—exist to solve the headaches that everyone seems to accept as “just how it is.” 

Spoiler: it doesn’t have to be that way.  

The creator economy, is the economy—but let’s be honest, the financial systems behind it are a mess.  

Brands juggle spreadsheets, chase down data from five different tools, and still struggle to figure out what’s working.

Creators wait weeks (sometimes months) to get paid. 

I’ve been there. I’ve felt the frustration. And I decided to do something about it. 

Here’s what we’re tackling:
🚫 Brands wasting hours on manual work and still getting fuzzy ROI.  
🚫 Marketing teams drowning in data silos and clunky workflows.  
🚫 Creators stuck waiting on payments and underpaid deals.  

And here’s what we’re doing about it:   
✅ Real-time campaign data so brands can actually see what’s working (and scale it).  
✅ Tools that free up time so marketers can focus on strategy, not spreadsheets. 
✅ Instant payouts and automated contracts—because creators shouldn’t chase checks.  

Why me?  
I’ve been in the **D2C eCommerce trenches since 2009**, building brands, running influencer campaigns, and dealing with the same mess I’m now solving. I know what it’s like to spend more time cleaning data than making decisions—and I’m obsessed with fixing that for good.  

If you’re an investor, you know the creator economy is massive—but infrastructure is lagging. We’re here to change that with solutions that scale.  

If you’re a brand or creator, you’re probably tired of the chaos. We’ve got tools that can help you ditch the manual grind and focus on what you do best.  

Let’s talk. What’s the part of your workflow you hate the most? 

Odds are, we’ve built something that fixes it.

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