Collis

Hi I’m Collis! I’m a Baha’i, designer, @envato cofounder, Climate investor, and engaged in philanthropy to support First Nations young people in 🇦🇺

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

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This year, through https://t.co/srJGUrbHI9 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 🖤💛❤️

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Today https://t.co/GBngkKXbiu 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! 😅

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https://t.co/GBngkKXbiu 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! 🙌

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@YourCraftyAmigo Watching fellow product founder @navidsafa turning this subtly brilliant product idea into reality at https://t.co/U8tzuHRYmR , he's just steadily chipping away at making it awesome. Even my kids like playing with the UX its so easy!

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Hello World. I'm here to help you make cool DIY projects!

Check me out -> https://t.co/xF4vWE9HHM

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Up here in the NT we often collaborate with the crew from https://t.co/9a9MH044L1 With the referendum coming up, they’ve made some awesome YES merch and materials, and you can grab their Tee here: https://t.co/G3XyJLMChR - 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: https://t.co/9sqmt4tckO - about a man who was the victim of a home invasion. His response was nothing short of remarkable!

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One more to share: https://t.co/srJGUrbHI9 ✨ It's the charitable trust Cy and I work thru that distributes funds to First Nations social entrepreneurs like Noni (pictured) founder of https://t.co/CENvX9rjLh 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 https://t.co/QWSnyULp75 - 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. 🙂🌏💚

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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! 😱 Check out the farm and amazing video - https://t.co/nN0QI7LIXj

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

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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) 💚

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With 2020 wrapping up, we've published our @envato annual public impact statement for the year - https://t.co/tDSTmKw0Pk - 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 🙌

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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 - https://t.co/BSSdRQqseW

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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 👏 with 81,000 different individuals earning over the years. More stories and articles over here - https://t.co/lF0AYhrb6Z

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Now that I've wrapped up at Envato, I'm working with Cyan at https://t.co/cH1yMsF5nr 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 🌎

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

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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 - https://t.co/R90UnnjWCp