Bart Macdonald

Managing Partner, Bloom Equity Partners

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
2024
GRC International Group plc is the holding company for a group of companies providing a range of products and services to address the IT governance, risk management and compliance requirements of organisations to enable them to meet the commercial requirements and regulatory standards that are now in force, or are coming into force, in these areas. The Group is incorporated in the United Kingdom and operates a one-stop-shop that helps customers source, deploy and/or integrate an appropriate mix of solutions that focus on cyber security and cyber resilience, data protection, PCI DSS, penetration testing, management standards such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301, and Cyber Essentials.
Investor
2020
Xenon Partners believes modern software companies should be architected for mass distribution. This means self-service, data-driven growth and low cost sales methods. When done properly the result is accelerated growth and unusual capital efficiency. Xenon provides the capital and operating expertise to support rapid, disciplined growth. Our internal Growth team provides functional support in online marketing, demand generation and sales execution. Our Finance and Administration team centralizes back-office functions and takes them off of your plate. The net result is you leverage our experts and focus on growth. Our team has worked closely with many of the most successful modern software companies as both operators and investors including Dropbox, Intercom, Pipedrive, and RightSignature (acquired by Citrix).
Founder/Board Member
2020
**WE ARE NOW PART OF THE KALLIDUS FAMILY!** Sapling is a People Operations platform that manages everything from onboarding, learning, HRIS, and performance. The partner of choice for People leaders who care about employee experience, retention, and creating an amazing culture for the most successful teams. As part of Kallidus, moving its focus towards connected people success solutions. Kallidus’ new purpose, ‘We make people success easy for growing organizations’ defines this next chapter. As a Kallidus product, Sapling’s capabilities in onboarding, offboarding, core HR, and people operations are further strengthened by Kallidus’ expertise in learning, performance, talent management, and learning content. The new purpose also reinforces their product strategy to build connected people journeys. Focused on developing talented people at critical moments of growth throughout their lifecycle, those connected journeys enable you to: - Drive continuous engagement through a learning & performance culture - Find and empower the right people throughout their careers - Simplify people operations at every touchpoint
Founder/Board Member
2019
**WE ARE NOW PART OF THE KALLIDUS FAMILY!** Sapling is a People Operations platform that manages everything from onboarding, learning, HRIS, and performance. The partner of choice for People leaders who care about employee experience, retention, and creating an amazing culture for the most successful teams. As part of Kallidus, moving its focus towards connected people success solutions. Kallidus’ new purpose, ‘We make people success easy for growing organizations’ defines this next chapter. As a Kallidus product, Sapling’s capabilities in onboarding, offboarding, core HR, and people operations are further strengthened by Kallidus’ expertise in learning, performance, talent management, and learning content. The new purpose also reinforces their product strategy to build connected people journeys. Focused on developing talented people at critical moments of growth throughout their lifecycle, those connected journeys enable you to: - Drive continuous engagement through a learning & performance culture - Find and empower the right people throughout their careers - Simplify people operations at every touchpoint
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2024
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2024
GRC International Group plc is the holding company for a group of companies providing a range of products and services to address the IT governance, risk management and compliance requirements of organisations to enable them to meet the commercial requirements and regulatory standards that are now in force, or are coming into force, in these areas. The Group is incorporated in the United Kingdom and operates a one-stop-shop that helps customers source, deploy and/or integrate an appropriate mix of solutions that focus on cyber security and cyber resilience, data protection, PCI DSS, penetration testing, management standards such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301, and Cyber Essentials.
2023
Board Member
Sep 2023
Founded in 2004, RightCrowd (ASX:RCW) is a leading provider of safety, security and compliance solutions to some of the world’s largest companies. RightCrowd has offices in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Philippines and Australia. Combined with our long-standing relationships with major security and business systems vendors, we deliver world-class solutions to meet our clients’ most difficult security and compliance challenges. Trusted by the world’s most respected companies, we have successful deployments in industries covering healthcare, critical infrastructure, mining, technology, manufacturing and financial services. Visit www.rightcrowd.com for more information on our complete range of solutions.
2021
Board Member
2021
Viostream is the leading platform to create, manage, share, and gain actionable analytics on your team’s video.
Board Member
2021
Soutron Global is a cloud-based Archive, Library, Knowledge and Information Management Solutions provider. We design, manufacture, market and service complete automation solutions to meet the unique needs of archives, libraries and information centers around the world. Dedicated to “Managing Archive and Library Transformation” We offer full service including system implementation, training, help desk support, software maintenance, user groups and library transformation council meetings. We pride ourselves in keeping on top of emerging technologies to help make the most of our clients’ hardware and software investment – now and in the future. Benefits of Soutron Global Solutions: - Generate opportunities by improving access to information - Contribute to profits by cutting research material costs - Reduce costs by improving personal productivity Soutron Global is a client-driven company with strong award winning leadership having extensive experience of delivering solutions to archives, information centers and special libraries for over three decades. We partner with archives, information centers and special libraries around the world in transitioning organizations to digital technologies with innovative and high-quality products. Soutron Global caters to every size – from single-branch institutions to large consortia. Our comprehensive products are flexible, customizable, easy to maintain and manage and Unicode-compliant with full multilingual capabilities. These products streamline operations and increase user satisfaction. We are dedicated to developing the most creative solutions in close collaboration with our clients. Soutron Global leads the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of archives, special libraries and information resource centers today, enabling them to transition into the future.
2020
Investor
2020
Xenon Partners believes modern software companies should be architected for mass distribution. This means self-service, data-driven growth and low cost sales methods. When done properly the result is accelerated growth and unusual capital efficiency. Xenon provides the capital and operating expertise to support rapid, disciplined growth. Our internal Growth team provides functional support in online marketing, demand generation and sales execution. Our Finance and Administration team centralizes back-office functions and takes them off of your plate. The net result is you leverage our experts and focus on growth. Our team has worked closely with many of the most successful modern software companies as both operators and investors including Dropbox, Intercom, Pipedrive, and RightSignature (acquired by Citrix).
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