Collide (Seed)

Traction: Collide has onboarded over 6,000 users to its community platform, growing at 11% month-over-month. Users span 122 countries, connecting energy professionals worldwide. The platform currently delivers an estimated time savings of 25–33% for petroleum engineers.
Founders: Collin McLelland, Chuck Yates
Company Description: Collide is a community-driven knowledge sharing platform for the energy industry, designed to be the knowledge hub for the next generation of energy professionals. It integrates retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and advanced large language models (LLMs) with a specialized knowledge base to deliver accurate, cited, and energy-focused insights to oil and gas professionals.
Market: Oil and Gas
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Coinvestors: Bryan Sheffield, Billy Quinn, David Albin, Embry Canterbury, Gene Shepherd, Dan Pickering, Steven Cobb, Trey Yates, Arbo Ventures