Megan Avard answers the phone with the sound of trucks barreling by in the background. The founder of Brisbane project and risk management tech company SurePact has just lept from the back of an Uber and is bustling between meetings, the first of many for the day.
Darting from appointment to appointment is a lifestyle to which she’s become accustomed in the past four years. That’s the time it’s taken to drag SurePact from being an idea written on the back of a folder in her previous corporate job to an enterprise-focused software company that many of her customers say they couldn’t live without.
Add to that the fact SurePact has just received $2 million from investment manager Future Now Capital, and Megan sounds truly buoyant, if not almost relaxed, over the phone.
“The feeling about that was relief,” she says.
“Not because I needed the money, because we are cash flow positive. But it was a relief because everything that I’d been saying and driving and pushing, a bigger group of people said, ‘She really has got a good idea, and we’re going to help her.’ ”
Her “really good idea” is a technology solution that takes the nightmare scenarios that derail most large construction and development projects – such as procurement, cost blowouts, workflow and user management, budgets, grants, and contract variances – and turns them into easily manageable and fully transparent processes for everybody working within any project, at any time.