Michael Collins is a venture capital investor at Alumni Ventures who started multiple companies across different industries before moving into VC, including toy company Kid Galaxy and innovation firm Big Idea Group, giving him an unusually broad founder-operator perspective. He has made democratizing venture capital access for individual accredited investors his core personal mission and regularly hosts Alumni Ventures' Tech Optimist content where he explains frontier technologies like AI and drones to help educate a broader investor base. Michael Collins is a venture capital investor at Alumni Ventures who started multiple companies across different industries before moving into VC, including toy company Kid Galaxy and innovation firm Big Idea Group, giving him an unusually broad founder-operator perspective. He has made democratizing venture capital access for individual accredited investors his core personal mission and regularly hosts Alumni Ventures' Tech Optimist content where he explains frontier technologies like AI and drones to help educate a broader investor base.