USA – Future, a San Francisco, CA-based digital fitness coaching service, raised $75m in Series C funding.
The round, which brought total funding to date to more than $110m, was led by SC.Holdings and Trustbridge Partners, with participation from existing investor Kleiner Perkins; Kate Hudson; Oliver Hudson; J.J. Watt; Symphony Ventures; Thirty Five Ventures; Optum Ventures; Endeavor; and Harris Blitzer Entertainment, owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its marketing efforts and product development and expand into other categories of health coaching. Co-founded by Google and NASA alum Rishi Mandal, and former Apple engineer Justin Santamaria, who led engineering on FaceTime and iMessage, Future provides a digital fitness coaching service which matches each member with a fitness coach who creates interactive workout programs using the Future app, tracks the member’s progress via an Apple Watch and communicates daily via text message to keep them on track. As part of the funding round, Future also announced that it will partner with investors Kate and Oliver Hudson – who created and host the podcast Sibling Revelry – to produce, co-host and distribute a six-episode series for Future across major podcast platforms. Future, Kate and Oliver will act as producers of the podcast.03/02/2022
