The Innovation Co-operative (Thinc) is the world’s first small business innovation co-operative. It harnesses equity crowd funding to commercialise Australia’s innovative small businesses and accelerate their growth for success. Thinc’s core purpose is to foster growth and innovation for small businesses to create a better Australia. Thinc adapts Australia’s national and state Co-operative Laws to enable any Australian to share in a portfolio of small, privately-owned Australian businesses with proven potential for substantial growth. It offers all types of investors the chance to realise dividends and capital gains far greater than are possible from publicly-listed shares. Worldwide, people are investing directly online in small businesses and innovative ideas with the disruptive potential for rapid growth. The Innovation Co-op founders realised that the co-op model that helped build Australia’s wealth since the 1880s was the ideal investment vehicle for 21st century crowd funders. Thinc has been established on this ‘crowd’ based business platform to provide the first legitimate, cost- effective way for all Australians to access the potential inherent in accelerating growth and innovation for small business with proven product and market potential, by transforming them into much bigger and more profitable enterprises.