Brooks Gibbins co-founded FinTech Collective after helping build and exit three notable companies across three continents, including FAST which sold to Microsoft for over $1 billion, bringing rare operating experience to early-stage fintech investing. He focuses on the infrastructure behind wealth and retirement systems rather than consumer apps, and has been investing in institutional crypto and digital assets since 2014 while maintaining a hands-on approach with meaningful ownership stakes in fewer than 5% of companies he evaluates. Brooks Gibbins co-founded FinTech Collective after helping build and exit three notable companies across three continents, including FAST which sold to Microsoft for over $1 billion, bringing rare operating experience to early-stage fintech investing. He focuses on the infrastructure behind wealth and retirement systems rather than consumer apps, and has been investing in institutional crypto and digital assets since 2014 while maintaining a hands-on approach with meaningful ownership stakes in fewer than 5% of companies he evaluates.