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Envato is an Australia-based, privately held company that specializes in the start-up, promotion and operation of multiple online marketplaces which facilitate the exchange of digital goods from thousands of independent sellers and digital authors to both amateur and professional web-designers, creative agencies and operators of web properties. Envato was founded in 2006 by Collis Ta'eed, Cyan Ta'eed, and Jun Rung.

History
After co-founding the company in 2006 the group launched FlashDen, the first digital marketplace which focused on rich multimedia web content exclusively produced by use of the Adobe Flash platform. After a complaint from Adobe, which holds the rights to the Flash trademark, FlashDen became known as "ActiveDen". Later that year, Envato launched Videohive, focusing on stock videos and After Effects templates.

Envato's third marketplace ThemeForest launched in 2008 and specializes in WordPress themes of which it has over a thousand, but it also features Magento Themes. Themeforest's top selling digital author for the third straight year has been Kriesi, an Austria based Wordpress theme designer with over $2,000,000 in total sales as of February, 2013.

In 2011 Envato launched its royalty free stock photo marketplace - PhotoDune. Despite only publicly launching in August 2011, the size of PhotoDune's file library has already surpassed any other Envato marketplace to date.

In early 2013, Envato launched "Microlancer", a digital marketplace for freelance services.

In the 2013 Envato Wrap Up, Collis Ta'eed indicated that Envato has paid out a total of US$140 million to its community of authors, affiliates, freelancers and instructors.

Services
The Envato network is broken down into Tuts+ tutorial sites which offer technology-related tutorials and marketplaces to sell digital products. Envato's network currently generates over a million dollars in annual revenue.

Envato's Tuts+ network is one of the biggest of its kind, publishing tutorials on a wide variety of topics from Flash, photography, audio to Photoshop. And its marketplaces are similarly situated, with Envato’s ThemeForest as the current largest WordPress theme retailer. In 2011 it was reported Envato's websites generated $150,000 a month in revenue