Collis

Now I just need to make a proper website for it 😅

This year, through brightmoon.au 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 🖤💛❤️

Today freeflo.ai 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! 😅

freeflo.ai 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! 🙌

@YourCraftyAmigo Watching fellow product founder @navidsafa turning this subtly brilliant product idea into reality at craftyamigo.com , he's just steadily chipping away at making it awesome. Even my kids like playing with the UX its so easy!

Hello World. I'm here to help you make cool DIY projects! Check me out -> craftyamigo.com

Up here in the NT we often collaborate with the crew from houseofdarwin.com With the referendum coming up, they’ve made some awesome YES merch and materials, and you can grab their Tee here: houseofdarwin.com/products/music… - proceeds go into campaigns to support the YES vote.

One of my recent side projects has been producing documentary-style featurettes around Australia. I am quite proud of this one that just published: youtube.com/watch?v=NvFrwf… - about a man who was the victim of a home invasion. His response was nothing short of remarkable!

One more to share: brightmoon.au ✨ It's the charitable trust Cy and I work thru that distributes funds to First Nations social entrepreneurs like Noni (pictured) founder of mayalabol.com a social enterprise focused on wellbeing for women and youth in Darwin!

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 refilled.com.au - they make smart drink dispensers to reduce/eliminate single use plastics on the go!

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. 🙂🌏💚

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! 😱 Check out the farm and amazing video - safafarms.com

@granfar Oh neat - I'll shoot you an email Mehran!

@collis I’m cooking something up at mothership, in partnership with one of Australia’s largest retailers, if you’re up interested?

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) 💚

With 2020 wrapping up, we've published our @envato annual public impact statement for the year - docs.google.com/presentation/d… - while not a year anyone wants to relive, it's nice to look back and see some good results for our community!

Over on @heytigerco we've been partnering with the wonderful team at @HungerProject where we passed a bit of an impact milestone in November 🙌

Pretty chuffed to say that the community at @envato officially passed $1,000,000,000 of all-time earnings in our ecosystem 👏 with 81,000 different individuals earning over the years. More stories and articles over here - forums.envato.com/t/we-ve-reache…

Now that I've wrapped up at Envato, I'm working with Cyan at heytiger.com.au where we just launched the Christmas 2020 range. It's pretty exciting working on a product you can actually *eat* 🍫🍫🍫. We only ship to AU/US/NZ at the moment, but expanding soon I hope 🌎

@mattallen Thanks Matt! It's pretty exciting it's happening after all this time!!

Not something you see everyday in modern tech, a founder hand over the reigns of a Billion company. Well done to @collis, Cyan and the team for building such an impressive company.

Also ... our new @envato CEO, Hichame Assi, has officially joined coming over from another Australian tech co @HotelsCombined 🎉 you can read a bit about him over in our interview - envato.com/blog/new-envat…