The Creative3 Investment Marketplace is a unique chance to pitch a creative business idea and win an amazing $125k creative biz prize package (terms and conditions apply). Exclusive to Australian creative entrepreneurs and start-ups, it’s an amazing opportunity to kick-start your creativity into commercial reality. Our 7 finalists have been announced.
Finalists will get to pitch their creative business to our panel of industry and business experts, and the best will win $25k cash and $100k services designed to super charge their growth. Learn how to turn your idea into reality through an interactive session with presentations and hear feedback from our panel of business and investment experts.
Creative3 Investment Marketplace
Thanks to our amazing partners for supporting Australia’s pitch session for creatives by offering a prize valued of now $125,000. The prize has been structured to assist creative businesses with investment, key services and support to fast their track growth.
QUT Creative Enterprise Australia – Cash $25,000
Investment Partner
QUT Enterprise Australia understands the challenges facing creative businesses in raising investment and getting the right advice to take your business to the next level. As Australia’s creative business accelerator and host of Creative3, our prize has been structured to provide capital to invest in your creative business and complement the fantastic support services offered by our Creative3 partners to super charge your growth.
Decoder – Prize Value $35,000
Brand & Communications Partner
The winner of Creative3 Investment Marketplace will snare some serious brand expertise from creative agency, Decoder. Valued at over $35,000* the Brand & Communications package includes brand creation (including logo development and guidelines for supporting language and collateral). It also covers creative concepts for advertising and sales material, as well as spot-on advice about the best channels to use for maximum impact.
And your big idea will be in great hands. Decoder delivers brand and integrated communications with passion and integrity. For them, it’s all about engaging consumers in ingenious ways to deliver sales, inspire loyalty, build relationships and grow brands.
(*Prize does not include external production costs such as photography, illustration, media purchase, TV or radio production and print costs.)
Oomph – Prize Value $20,000
Digital Publishing & App Partner
Oomph is an award winning Australian business that helps publishers, creatives and businesses create rich media tablet apps using the innovative and easy-to-use digital publishing platform.
The Oomph digital publishing platform combines the best design features of TV and print, the rich interactivity of digital and the personalisation of touch – all in a trackable medium. Oomph now powers over 50 leading publications onto tablets including the award winning Gourmet Traveller, Fitness First and PwC’s Outlook report.
Oomph will be providing the following services to the winner of the Creative3 Investment Marketplace Price up to the value of $20k*
In consultation with the winner:
• An Oomph Powered iPad/ iPhone App (such as an interactive brochure, event, promo or magazine app)
• Apple iPad Wi-Fi 16 Gig valued at $579.00
• Full Oomph Platform Training
• Marketing consultation around design, build and promotion.
* In standard Oomph prices dated Sept 2011
Queensland Media Group – Prize Value $20,000
E-commerce & CMS Partner
QMG provides expert online solutions backed by a commitment to ongoing support and maintenance. By doing this we achieve outstanding results for our clients, on time and on budget.
The winner of the Creative3 Investment Marketplace prize will benefit from having a website custom designed by our award winning team including a Content Management System (CMS) and integrated e-commerce system. Full training, hosting, license fees and support for 12 months will be offered to maximise business effectiveness.
BDO – Prize Value $10,000
Accountancy & Tax Partner
As the world’s fifth largest accounting and advisory network, BDO focuses on building strong relationships and understand that each of our clients have distinctively different needs. It’s the way we see you, listen to you and treat you that makes BDO distinctively different. Distinctively different – it’s how we see you.
BDO is pleased to offer the Creative3 Investment Marketplace prize winner, specialist taxation and accountancy advice targeted to support their plans for growth. This will be offered through tailored and specialist sessions delivered by our experienced Senior Partners.
Internetics – Prize Value $5,000
Mobile Website
We make things mobile. We are an award winning mobile development company – apps, web apps and websites. iPhone, Android and everything in between.
Internetics, the award winning Brisbane based mobile application and mobile website development agency, is offering the Creative3 Investment Marketplace prize winner a mobile makeover for their existing website. With smartphone usage growing at an unstoppable pace, it is essential that your website is viewable through mobile devices including the iPhone and Android.
Creative Industries Innovation Centre – Prize Value $5,000
Business Mentoring Partner
The Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC) supports the business of creative enterprise. It is part of the Australian Government’s Enterprise Connect program and is supported by the University of Technology, Sydney.
CIIC will provide the top 3 winners of the Creative3 Investment Marketplace with 4 hours of one-on-one time with an expert creative industries Business Adviser in their State. This is worth a total value of $5,000.
redchip lawyers – Prize Value $5,000
Legal Services & Capital Raising Partner
redchip lawyers supports and applauds the innovator. Our focus as lawyers is commercial advice that supports and enables the entrepreneur actively growing or driving their business, new technology or innovation. We understand the challenges involved and commercializing innovation in all forms and the focus of our advice is finding the best path through those challenges.
Redchip lawyers is pleased to offer the Creative3 Investment Marketplace prize winner, legal advice and professional services* tailored to the winner’s business needs to the value of $5k. This can include the most effective structure relevant to capital raising and steps needed to be investment ready.
*Excludes out of pocket expenses and outlays
CREATIVE3 INVESTMENT MARKETPLACE FINALISTS
Ortelia Interactive Spaces Pty Ltd (Brisbane) (www.ortelia.com)
Ortelia Interactive Spaces Pty Ltd provides high value digital products and services to the arts and humanities sectors. Ortelia products and services encourage and support innovation in theatres, art galleries, museums and heritage management. They allow users to implement modern game engine technologies and techniques using interactive 3D digital environments to improve work processes, archive, save time and increase the accessibility of their collections to audiences regionally and globally. Ortelia maintains a strong focus on the creation of educational tools (that enhance students’ learning experiences by viewing archived versions of original exhibitions or curating their own exhibitions), and a rigorous research and development agenda.
Defiant Development (Brisbane) (http://www.defiantdev.com)
Defiant Development is a Brisbane-based game development studio filled with games industry veterans getting back to the reason they got into games in the first place. Defiant develops mobile, console, educational and augmented reality games including Rocket Bunnies (iOS and Android), Hoops AR (Augmented Reality for Android), Warco (Freeplay award winning game about journalism in a warzone) and Quick Quest (tablet action RPG).
ScreenZone (Byron Bay) www.oneplanetfilms.co
ScreenZone is an interactive world-wide hub for online video, combining the best old and new media. It is not just a retailer or broadcaster but a highly interactive film community. It can be viewed on computers, phones, home entertainments systems and other smart devices. It will have a catalogue of over 500,000 titles and growing. It has a unique combination of services: providing studio shows that review films, helping to guide the user and bridge the gulf between the catalogue and viewer interests; plus previews (trailers) and then the full viewing experience with a large range of quality content. These choices are offered through a unique Options Console, which brings together a wide range of viewing choices into a very efficient matrix of options. Other features will include Meet the Filmmaker, audience reviews, forums plus information about films, directors and actors. (
FlickDesk (Brisbane) www.FlickDesk.com
FlickDesk is founded by Gideon Shalwick and Nick McIntosh from Seven Success Productions Ltd Pty. FlickDesk is new way of video editing. The technology enables video producers, such as marketing agencies, business owners and film makers to connect and work with high quality video editors using a suite of tools that enables the production of high-quality videos, faster, cheaper and more simply than ever before.
StyleRocks (Sydney) www.stylerocks.com
StyleRocks , founded by Pascale Helyar-Moray, sells quality jewellery that the customer designs themselves online. In a similar fashion to www.shoesofprey.com, the online jewellery designer offers a number of customisation options which the customer can use to create their personalised item of jewellery. Customisation includes choosing the metal, finish, engraving, adding charms, or insetting semi / precious stones. By allowing the customer to design their jewellery, StyleRocks solves the problem of not being able to find the right gift for an occasion – anniversaries, weddings, etc. With a lower price point, it enables the masses to access jewellery customisation.
Virgo Productions (Brisbane) www.virgoproductions.com.au
Virgo Productions is an award-winning, boutique screen industries company founded by Cathy Henkel in 2009. The company tells inspiring, positive, global stories with cross-platform delivery and engages audiences world-wide through cinema, television, online, mobile, DVD and education release. The Company is developing an innovative finance and marketing strategy that explores new pathways for Australian screen industry development. Virgo Productions is currently producing two ground-breaking documentaries using alternative finance models: 100 Days in the Jungle, a 3D action adventure documentary set in Borneo (www.anactionmovie.com) and Show me the Magic, a feature documentary in partnership with Freshwater Pictures about acclaimed cinematographer Don McAlpine.
WizzyBoard (Sydney) website: www.wizzyboard.com
WizzyBoard™ is a disruptive object recognition technology which provides a conduit between the physical world and the digital world. With its proprietary technology, WizzyBoard™ is building a completely new and exciting method of gaming and edutainment whereby toys and merchandising are fully integrated with online games for tablets and iPads. WizzyBoard™ has a proprietary and patentable technology where objects or toys can be easily and inexpensively converted for recognition, and localization on capacitive touchscreen such as iPads or Android devices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRaGwQSraY (view demonstration)
“Like many new creative businesses, we put in maximum effort with minimum resources. Winning the Creative3 Investment Marketplace gave us the chance to work with some of Australia’s leading experts in the fields of finance, law and communications and their advice has opened many new doors for Half a Teaspoon, Being a part of the Creative3 Investment Marketplace increased our confidence in what we do and inspired us to create even better products. After winning, we refocused our marketing strategy and now one year on, we’ve successfully launched 321 Water.”
Gretha Oost, Half a Teaspoon, Winner of Creative3 Investment Marketplace 2010