Future Now Ventures

Future Now Ventures is a boutique venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2013. The firm specializes in investing in startups that focus on cloud services, mobile technologies, and enterprise software. It manages a growth expansion fund that targets investments primarily in the software sector, including areas such as software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, social media, and e-commerce. Through its strategic investments, Future Now Ventures aims to support innovative companies in the technology landscape.

Kathryn Foster

Venture Partner

Chris Lee

Managing Director and Partner

John Orrock

Founder, CEO, Principal Investor

19 past transactions

Nowinfinity

Seed Round in 2016
NowInfinity Pty Ltd is an Australian company based in Bundall, founded in 2005, that specializes in providing a document generation and lodgment platform tailored for financial professionals, including accountants, financial planners, and SMSF specialists. The platform offers a user-friendly interface and features a powerful document generation engine, providing access to over 40 customizable legal document templates. NowInfinity's services include tools for rapid company formation with ASIC, compliance management, and entity establishment, allowing clients to optimize their workflows and streamline registration processes. The company operates across three editions to accommodate varying usage requirements, catering to the diverse needs of its professional clientele.

My-Checkpoints

Seed Round in 2016
My-Checkpoints is a performance and rewards platform tailored for the BPO industry, aiming to enhance productivity and profitability by making work engaging and enjoyable. The platform incorporates elements of social media and gamification, allowing organizations to track employee performance, engagement, and overall company sentiment. By leveraging visualization tools, My-Checkpoints provides valuable insights that help businesses motivate their workforce, ultimately fostering a more dynamic and rewarding work environment. The focus is on creating a balance between fun and effective performance management, ensuring that the company's objectives are met while keeping employees engaged.

Salarium

Seed Round in 2016
Salarium is an end-to-end payroll platform working to provide global cross-border payroll services. Providing time & attendance, expense reimbursement, computation, disbursement and compliance either for companies to work in-house or with partners for fully outsourced solutions. Currently offering payroll services in the Philippines.

Loansolutions.ph

Seed Round in 2016
LoanSolutions.ph is the largest network of lenders in the Philippines. It facilitates fast and easy access to credit for different financial needs by connecting borrowers to multiple lending partners in single online loan application. Their story began as an answer to their own problem that they know is your problem too. They were frustrated by the traditional lending industry in the Philippines. They decided to launch LoanSolutions.PH as an answer to this problem. Their goal is to empower consumers like you to make the best financial decisions and get the best lending rates available in the market. They developed a process where lenders compete against each other in a fair and open marketplace transparently. Through this process, lenders are able to target the borrowers they want to reach in real-time. It’s a win-win idea where you win and get more access to capital to improve their financial situations. Whether it is buying a new home, financing a new car, sending a child to college, financing your medical bills, LoanSolutions.PH is here to help you! Together, they strive to be an ally for borrowers and lenders alike. They’re here to do the heavy lifting for you if you’re looking to compare and optimize your loan choices- and hey, they’ll lift for you without a price.

JESI Management Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
JESI Management Solutions Pty Ltd. specializes in journey management software designed for mobile workforces, focusing on the safety of lone workers and teams operating in remote and isolated areas. The company's solutions are utilized to monitor individuals traveling from metropolitan areas to distant locations, ensuring the safety of students, teachers, researchers, and healthcare workers as they move between campuses, research sites, and patient homes. With a client base spanning the resource, construction, education, and healthcare sectors, JESI operates both in Australia and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Townsville, Australia, with additional offices in the United States, JESI provides an affordable and proactive approach to journey management by automating alerts to emergency contacts if a traveler fails to reach their destination.

Barhead

Seed Round in 2016
Barhead is a multinational company that specializes in providing consulting services focused on bridging the gap between people and technology. The firm leverages Microsoft Cloud solutions to help enterprises enhance their operations and stay competitive. Barhead offers flexible small and medium business solutions that can scale with client growth, as well as offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services. Their expertise spans various domains, including customer engagement, human capital management, enterprise resource planning, and financial services, all aimed at improving clients' systems and processes for greater efficiency. With a team boasting decades of collective experience in Cloud and applications development, Barhead has received multiple accolades, including recognition as Microsoft’s “CRM Online Partner of the Year” in 2015, reflecting its commitment to innovation and excellence in technology solutions.

Advvy

Seed Round in 2016
The revolution in media trading begins with Unibrief - one platform to connect them all. Advvy Introducing Unibrief - the universal briefing and communication platform for the media industry. Unibrief provides media agencies and media publishers with a universal briefing and communication platform. It is the dawn to the new way of doing business in the media industry, where a fully automated and electronic trading system will soon be realised. For a fully automated and electronic trading platform to exist, new standards need to be developed. And it all starts with a new briefing standard. While maintaining agency customisation, it will deliver clear and concise briefs everytime to the right people. With one click, instantly share your brief with all your media publishers. View, negotiate and approve media responses, easily and effectively. Watch as your teams work smarter, increasing efficiency. Double handling data will soon be a long forgotten task. Unibrief begins to solve this problem by housing all media plans intuitively by date and version, so you always know the latest response.

Booky

Seed Round in 2016
Booky is a leading food and lifestyle application in the Philippines that enables users to discover and make reservations at various venues, including restaurants, gyms, salons, and spas. The app allows users to search for dining options even when offline, ensuring a fast and efficient experience. Additionally, Booky offers discount coupons at partner establishments, enhancing the user experience while promoting local businesses. With a focus on providing access to the newest dining spots and lifestyle services, Booky caters to a wide audience looking for convenient and accessible ways to explore and enjoy their surroundings.

JoomaJam

Seed Round in 2016
Joomajam is an educational platform that offers a bilingual learning app designed for children aged 3 to 7. The app features a variety of engaging activities, including music, videos, and games, to foster progressive learning in a fun and interactive manner. As a product of Ritmo Learning Lab, a social enterprise dedicated to Early Child Development, Joomajam emphasizes culturally-relevant content that supports both parents and educators in creating teachable moments. The app aims to cultivate an environment where children and their caregivers can play, learn, and develop essential life skills together through music-driven experiences.

AllFamous Digital

Seed Round in 2016
AllFamous Digital specializes in providing comprehensive digital marketing solutions designed to enhance online customer experiences. The company's offerings include social SEO services such as website and social page design, content marketing, blog management, social backlinking, and paid advertising. Additionally, it provides social CRM services, encompassing social listening, crisis management, customer service, community management, and lead generation. The analytics services cover agency and brand monitoring, competitor analysis, and ROI reporting. Established in 2011 and located in Makati, Philippines, AllFamous Digital leverages the country's reputation as a social media hub to deliver high-quality services at competitive prices. The firm is committed to helping businesses optimize their digital presence through tailored strategies and effective marketing software solutions.

CloudSwyft

Seed Round in 2016
CloudSwyft offers an IT-Labs-as-a-Service platform that enables companies create and manage IT training, assessment, and development environments without the need to purchase and manually setup hardware and software tools. The cloud-based platform has been designed to provide on-demand virtual environments to deliver hands-on workspace for tech recruitment assessments, on-going IT training, quality testing and software development tasks.

Reekoh

Seed Round in 2016
Reekoh, Inc. is a company that develops an integration platform designed to connect Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and enterprise applications. Based in Makati, Philippines, with an additional office in Sydney, Australia, Reekoh provides a suite of tools that facilitates device and data management, business workflow automation, and integration of IoT data with cloud platforms. The platform enables users to manage instances, monitor data consumption, control user access, and handle billing details efficiently. Reekoh's offerings include plugins, an instance management console, and solutions for communications networks, all aimed at simplifying the complexities of IoT integration. The company has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for its innovative approach to IoT integration, emphasizing its role in enhancing business outcomes across various industry segments.

Flyspaces

Seed Round in 2016
FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities. For venue owners, FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space. We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone. FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities. For venue owners, FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space. We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.

Hammerjack

Seed Round in 2016
hammerjack has years of experience in providing enterprise level IT and BPO service solutions to businesses, large and small. By leveraging technology and our expertise, they open the door to a smarter way of working and ease the path to digital transformation for our customers. By simplifying the process of offshoring, Hammerjack make it easier for more businesses to make the move. They combine the very best people, the latest technologies, and the smartest processes to develop solutions around your business, that work for your business. Achieve your digital transformation goals, increase sales, reduce costs, provide a better service to your customers and grow whilst allowing your team to focus on what they do best.

Kalibrr

Venture Round in 2015
Kalibrr, Inc. is a recruitment technology company based in Makati City, Philippines, that offers online job listing and recruitment services for both job seekers and employers. Founded in 2012, Kalibrr provides a comprehensive job search platform catering to various sectors, including accounting, IT, healthcare, and customer service, among others. The company specializes in different employment levels, from internships to executive positions. Kalibrr aims to transform recruitment processes through its end-to-end services, which include a premium job portal, an advanced recruitment system, employer branding, and online assessments powered by artificial intelligence. By focusing on enhancing candidate experiences and streamlining employer recruitment strategies, Kalibrr seeks to foster strong relationships between candidates and companies.

AutoDeal

Seed Round in 2015
AutoDeal is a digital marketing platform for car brands, dealers and consumers. The platform assists automotive buyers in comparing vehicles, finding promotions and effectively communicating with dealerships and sales agents. It further offers analytical tools that provide unique insights into buyer behaviour for brands and dealerships. The Philippines currently has 45 brands and with a 30% annual sales increase reported in 2014, it is now the second fastest growing automotive market in the world. Propelling this growth is an increase in per capita earnings and aggressive car financing strategies being deployed by the finance institutions and automotive brands. The AutoDeal platform will support this growth assisting consumers in the buying process through fast-paced and efficient communication with dealerships, delivering on the promise of ‘Car Buying, Simplified.’

Four Eyes

Seed Round in 2014
They offer quality eyewear at the most affordable rates through their eCommerce store to the Filipino consumers. Prescription glasses, sunglasses, computer glasses can be tried at home using their Home Try-On feature, or through their website using the Virtual Try-On feature. They own the supply chain - from assembly to delivery of the end product.

JESI Management Solutions

Seed Round in 2014
JESI Management Solutions Pty Ltd. specializes in journey management software designed for mobile workforces, focusing on the safety of lone workers and teams operating in remote and isolated areas. The company's solutions are utilized to monitor individuals traveling from metropolitan areas to distant locations, ensuring the safety of students, teachers, researchers, and healthcare workers as they move between campuses, research sites, and patient homes. With a client base spanning the resource, construction, education, and healthcare sectors, JESI operates both in Australia and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Townsville, Australia, with additional offices in the United States, JESI provides an affordable and proactive approach to journey management by automating alerts to emergency contacts if a traveler fails to reach their destination.

LikeJobs

Seed Round in 2013
LikeJobs Inc. specializes in providing tools for talent acquisition and referral management, focusing on a cloud-based social recruitment platform. This platform allows HR professionals to publish job opportunities through various social media channels and collect applications directly via its portal. Additionally, it enables the management of referral programs by leveraging the social and mobile connections of team members and candidates, utilizing its Social Referral Management feature. The platform also includes an Applicant Tracking solution that streamlines the recruitment process by consolidating candidate management from multiple sources. Based in Makati City, Philippines, LikeJobs aims to enhance recruitment advertising and applicant management while promoting creative employee referrals and rewards.
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