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Hi Iโ€™m Collis! Iโ€™m a Bahaโ€™i, designer, @envato cofounder, Climate investor, and engaged in philanthropy to support First Nations young people in ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

Darwin, Australia
Joined April 2008
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Now I just need to make a proper website for it ๐Ÿ˜….
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This year, through we made a total of $1.7M in grants to First Nations social entrepreneurs across Nth Australia! We've been able to support a real variety of groups - from healing circles to mentorship, activism to bush bands and remote schools ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’›โค๏ธ
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Today went live as a hub for reusable generative AI style prompts to create better images. It's been a super fun project to work on - both in product design, but also I've been making style prompts myself. There's a bit of an art to them! ๐Ÿ˜….
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is a side project I've been working on, sort of an Unsplash-for-AI images. Still pre-official-launch but its coming together well, and we're accepting new creators! ๐Ÿ™Œ
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RT @YourCraftyAmigo: Hello World. I'm here to help you make cool DIY projects!. Check me out -> .
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2 years
Up here in the NT we often collaborate with the crew from With the referendum coming up, theyโ€™ve made some awesome YES merch and materials, and you can grab their Tee here: - proceeds go into campaigns to support the YES vote.
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One of my recent side projects has been producing documentary-style featurettes around Australia. I am quite proud of this one that just published: - about a man who was the victim of a home invasion. His response was nothing short of remarkable!.
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2 years
One more to share: โœจ It's the charitable trust Cy and I work thru that distributes funds to First Nations social entrepreneurs like Noni (pictured) founder of a social enterprise focused on wellbeing for women and youth in Darwin!
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It's been a while since I posted to Twitter. Thought I'd share the new website of a startup we backed last year called - they make smart drink dispensers to reduce/eliminate single use plastics on the go!
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Cyan and I are excited to be early stage backers of @bloom_impact - a new Climate Impact Investment app led by founders Camille and Bertrand. Camille has a bold vision for enabling anyone and everyone to fund (and benefit!) from the shift to a more climate focused society. ๐Ÿ™‚๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’š
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After he finished his stint with @envato, Placeit founder @navidsafa said he was going to build an eco-hotel/farm in Mexico, and then . *did* it! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Check out the farm and amazing video -
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Recently Cyan and I have started (angel) investing in Climate Change impact businesses (in Australia mostly). I thought I'd put it out there, that if you're a founder in that space looking for investment and want to have a chat - email me! (collis at envato) ๐Ÿ’š.
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With 2020 wrapping up, we've published our @envato annual public impact statement for the year - - while not a year anyone wants to relive, it's nice to look back and see some good results for our community!
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Over on @heytigerco we've been partnering with the wonderful team at @HungerProject where we passed a bit of an impact milestone in November ๐Ÿ™Œ.
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We're proud to be partnered with The @HungerProject supporting cocoa farming communities in Ghana, one choc block at a time. So far, we've donated $253,773! Thank you Tigers, we couldn't have done this without you. Read about our impact here -
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Pretty chuffed to say that the community at @envato officially passed $1,000,000,000 of all-time earnings in our ecosystem ๐Ÿ‘ with 81,000 different individuals earning over the years. More stories and articles over here -
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Now that I've wrapped up at Envato, I'm working with Cyan at where we just launched the Christmas 2020 range. It's pretty exciting working on a product you can actually *eat* ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿซ. We only ship to AU/US/NZ at the moment, but expanding soon I hope ๐ŸŒŽ
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Also . our new @envato CEO, Hichame Assi, has officially joined coming over from another Australian tech co @HotelsCombined ๐ŸŽ‰ you can read a bit about him over in our interview -
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Excited that @mixkit_co has just launched a totally free library of 3000 SFX over at ๐ŸŽง
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I always enjoy seeing what ex-@envato team go on to do. Today a couple of them have launched a very neat product called Fitter ( to create branded health and fitness apps. Check it out!
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Super excited to say that @envato is now a certified @BCorporation! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ It's both a great benchmark and a lovely bit of recognition for our approach to balancing profit and purpose. Read more here -
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