When was QUT Creative Enterprise Australia founded?

QUT Creative Enterprise Australia was founded in 2004.

Where is QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's headquarters located?

QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's headquarters is located in Kelvin Grove (Australia).

How many companies has QUT Creative Enterprise Australia invested in?

QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has invested in 28 companies, including Cardly & theright.fit.

Which companies has QUT Creative Enterprise Australia invested in lately?

theright.fit & Cardly are the latest investments by QUT Creative Enterprise Australia.

How many exits has QUT Creative Enterprise Australia been involved in?

QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's portfolio has seen 1 acquisition.

QUT Creative Enterprise Australia - 2026 Investor Profile, Portfolio & Investment Trends

QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, an accelerator and incubator program founded in 2004, is based in Kelvin Grove, Australia. With a presence in 2 countries, it has supported around 28 startups in sectors like Consumer, Retail. As of Oct 2026, QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has witnessed 1 portfolio exit. Most notable companies in its portfolio include Cardly, theright.fit and Audience Republic. The program primarily supports Seed startups based in Australia. Its latest investment was a Undisclosed Seed round in theright.fit on Feb 06, 2018.

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2004

Location

Kelvin Grove, Australia

Portfolio Companies

Cardly, theright.fit & 26 more

Sectors of Investment

Consumer, Retail & 8 more

Stages of Investment

Seed & Angel

Locations of Investment

Australia & China

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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has a portfolio of 28 companies. Their most notable investments are in Travelshoot and theright.fit.Their portfolio spans across Australia and China. They have invested in Consumer, Retail, Enterprise Applications and 7 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Angel stages. Here is the list of top investments by QUT Creative Enterprise Australia:

1. Cardly

Cardly is an online marketplace for greeting cards. The company enables independent greeting card artists to sell their products through the company's platform. Users can select from the design templates available online for cards across various categories such as birthday, anniversary, Christmas, and more and users can personalize these cards by writing a message and attaching doodles. Users can furnish the intended recipient's address and pay online to confirm their order.

Key facts about Cardly

Founded Year: 2015
Location: Woombye (Australia)
Stage: Seed
Total Funding till date: $230K
Employee Count: 4 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: AirTree, M8 Ventures and 2 Others
Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 12, 2018, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

2. theright.fit

Freelancer marketplace for elite models, actors, influencers, photographers, stylists. The employer lists their requirements on the site, a list of talents is provided to them according to their recruitments and the recruiter can select their favorites out of those. Steps include listing a job, inviting talent, hold a casting, booking favorite, paying for the job, and reviewing the talent.

Key facts about theright.fit

Founded Year: 2016
Location: Sydney (Australia)
Stage: Seed
Total Funding till date: $750K
Employee Count: 42 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: SoGal Ventures, AirTree and 1 Other
Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 06, 2018, $*****

3. Audience Republic

Audience Republic provides event ticket booking and marketing software solutions for sports events, conferences, music festivals, and concerts. It helps event designers to manage their tickets online, offers a dashboard to analyze ticket sales data, email subscribers & registrations. It also lets users send targeted messages via SMS, Facebook Messenger & WhatsApp and emails. Customers include festivals like Pitch Festival, Lost Paradise, Days Like This, Electric Gardens, Beyond the Valley, and more

Key facts about Audience Republic

Founded Year: 2016
Location: Darlinghurst (Australia)
Stage: Seed
Total Funding till date: $525K
Employee Count: 22 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: Macdoch Ventures, Artiel Ventures and 9 Others
Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 02, 2017, $*****

4. Fame and Partners

Fame and Partners is a vertically integrated eCommerce business that sells made-to-order custom dresses to women. The company uses a proprietary algorithm to track the latest trends in event wear and leverage a real-time supply chain to offer customizations to these on-trend garments. Have tightly integrated content within the website through blogs and also provide an option for a user to shop by lookbooks. Had raised $137K through equity crowdfunding in Dec 2014.

Key facts about Fame and Partners

Founded Year: 2014
Location: Bondi (Australia)
Stage: Deadpooled
Total Funding till date: $7.99M
Employee Count: 16 as on Jul 01, 2024
Investors: Upfront Ventures, FirstMark and 10 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 19, 2016, $*****

5. Trademark

Provider of AI-based image recognition solutions. It provides users with subjective keywords and codes that have been used for trademark searches and monitors. It also provides access to global datasets all from within the system.

Key facts about Trademark

Founded Year: 2011
Location: Brisbane (Australia)
Stage: Acquired
Investors: Right Click Capital, Sydney Seed Fund and 2 Others
Latest Funding Round: Angel, Apr 02, 2014, $*****
Highlight: Acquired

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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has invested in 28 companies over the last 12 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in theright.fit.

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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has made 8 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $422K and 1 investment in Angel stage.

Here are QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's investments by stage:

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	8
Angel	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, Retail, Enterprise Applications, Gig Economy and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 12 Tech companies, 10 Consumer (B2C) companies, 6 Enterprise (B2B) companies and at least 5 companies focusing on Marketplace.

Here are QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's investments by sector:

Sector	No. of Investments
Consumer	7
Retail	4
Enterprise Applications	3
Gig Economy	3
High Tech	2
Others	4

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has made most investments in Australia (8), followed by China where it has made 1 investment.

Here are QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's investments by geography:

Country	No. of Investments
Australia	8
China	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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QUT Creative Enterprise Australia has not made any investment in 2026 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by QUT Creative Enterprise Australia:

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Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Feb 06, 2018	theright.fit	Australia	Seed	3965	-
Jan 12, 2018	Cardly	Australia	Seed	3643	-
Feb 14, 2017	Travelshoot	Australia	Seed	7404	Transition Level
Feb 02, 2017	Audience Republic	Australia	Seed	5510	Artesian
Jul 01, 2015	GiggedIn	Australia	Seed	5448	BlueChilli [+2]

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1 company from QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Trademark in Oct 2018 by Clarivate for $*****.

Here are QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

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Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Trademark	Oct 30, 2018	Apr 02, 2014	Angel	5549

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Over the past 12 years, 13 investors have co-invested in QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.

Invested before QUT Creative Enterprise Australia: AirTree and Sydney Seed Fund have invested in rounds before QUT Creative Enterprise Australia. There is 1 company where AirTree has invested before QUT Creative Enterprise Australia and 1 company where Sydney Seed Fund has invested before QUT Creative Enterprise Australia.
Top Co-investors of QUT Creative Enterprise Australia: 7 investors entered a company along with QUT Creative Enterprise Australia. These include investors like Artesian (1 company).
Invested after QUT Creative Enterprise Australia: A total of 4 investors have invested in QUT Creative Enterprise Australia's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Sydney Angels (1 company) and VentureCrowd (1 company).