Collin McLelland is an energy-industry entrepreneur who co-founded Collide, an enterprise AI infrastructure and workflow automation company built for oil-and-gas operators. Collin McLelland's Twitter Score is 37 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #26,062 (top 10%) among 497,973 tracked accounts.
Collin McLelland previously worked as a roughneck in the oilfield before pivoting to building AI software for the energy sector. He serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Collide, which was formerly known as Digital Wildcatters. The company raised a $5 million seed round led by Mercury Fund, with participation from Bryan Sheffield, Billy Quinn, David Albin, Embry Canterbury, Gene Shepherd, Dan Pickering, Steven Cobb, Trey Yates, and Arbo Ventures, among other oil-and-gas investors, per the company's own announcement.
Collin McLelland has been active on X discussing AI software supply-chain security and drawing comparisons between governance challenges in the AI industry and those seen in crypto. He has posted 51,237 times and has 36,779 followers as of October 2026. Collin McLelland has been mentioned by 28 accounts, with 347 total mentions.
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