John Bonhard

Principal at Blueprint Equity

📍 Detroit Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Board Member
Nov 2025
TenFore has developed powerful and easy-to-use cloud-based point of sale, tee sheet, booking engine, and marketing software for public and private golf courses, retail shops, and food and beverage operations. Our software provides course owners mobility on and off the course, payment choices, payment processing, concierge support, reporting, and needed integrations so that owners can manage their businesses how they choose and without limitation.
Board Observer
Sep 2024
CYRISMA™ is a revolutionary cybersecurity platform that helps organizations manage risk without the usual headaches associated with enterprise cybersecurity tools. Designed for organizations that demand a clear and immediate return on investment, CYRISMA™ simplifies the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating technical risks, all while eliminating high licensing costs, long deployment times, and burdensome technologies. Our data-centric approach to cybersecurity streamlines your cybersecurity efforts by focusing on what’s important while providing a simple, easy-to-use platform for identifying risks, strengthening weak configurations, and neutralizing risks through accountability. We are the simple choice for effective cybersecurity.
Board Member
Feb 2024
Sprocket Security was founded to improve the way we approach cybersecurity. Currently the industry performs services in a timeboxed, or point-in-time approach. We think this is fundamentally flawed. We protect your business by monitoring the cybersecurity landscape and performing continuous penetration testing services.
Board Observer
Nov 2023
At Yogi, we believe in the transformative power of listening. Every consumer voice carries immense impact, whether it be a personal story, shopper pain, or a suggestion for innovation. Yet, many brands fail to unlock this tremendous value, missing critical insights that are essential for staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market. Yogi sifts through the chaos of data to uncover the whispers and shouts that are reshaping product landscapes and defining consumer experiences for consumer goods brands. True understanding goes beyond processing words; it’s about grasping the underlying meanings and sentiment behind them, categorizing and organizing these insights in a way that’s meaningful and easy to act on. Utilizing the power of AI and deep machine learning, Yogi transforms raw data from ratings, reviews, social chatter, and support tickets into structured, clear insights down to the SKU and attribute level. This process provides brands with precise, actionable intelligence that is directly aligned with business goals, paving the way for impactful outcomes and de-risking future investments. Yogi serves as a strategic ally across the organization—from insights and innovation to consumer experience, marketing, and e-commerce. At Yogi, every piece of feedback not only supports confident, data-driven choices but also elevates consumer engagement by turning insights into real value. Every decision maker has timely access to these insights, ensuring that business strategies are no longer disjointed, effectively backed by shopper voices, and responsive to consumer needs. By delivering exactly what consumers seek, Yogi fosters deeper brand loyalty and satisfaction. This dedication to delivering value strengthens not just brands, but the entire consumer relationship, enhancing life’s everyday moments through better products and experiences. Join Conagra, Nestle, Microsoft, and other market leaders getting consumer intelligence at record speed with meetyogi.com.
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Tovuti is an all-in-one training and learning management system built for organizations of all sizes. From SMBs to enterprises, regulated industries, and government agencies, hundreds of organizations worldwide choose Tovuti to support employee training and career development, compliance, sales enablement, customer and partner education, and more. And with 40+ gamified elements, social learning capabilities, and simple admin tools, Tovuti makes education fun for learners and easy on administrators.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Akadeum Life Sciences® has developed a next generation platform that solves long-standing problems across cell therapy and other research, diagnostic and therapeutic markets. The proprietary buoyant microbubble technology platform addresses the need for high cell quality, scalability, time and workflow that current magnetic particle-based products commonly used in cell therapy manufacturing and research can’t address. The Company has several GMP grade and Clinical Ready kits to enable each stage of cell therapy manufacturers pipeline. Harnessing the microbubble capability, the Alerion™ Microbubble Cell Separation System enables cell isolation from tens of billions of cells in apheresis material in under an hour, significantly expanding capacity of manufacturers. Akadeum is currently working with some of the largest corporations and forward-thinking leaders in the industry. The power of the Akadeum microbubble platform is an elegant and easy-to-use technology that can enable faster, more accurate, and scalable workflows to improve human health. Better Isolations. Healthier Cells.
late stageBiotechnology
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Dscout is a flexible Experience Research Platform for capturing in-context insights from high-quality participants. Leading brands use Dscout to test ideas, iterate quickly, collaborate, and build confidently.
Board Member
Jul 2018
Popular Pays is an all-in-one influencer marketing and visual content creation platform for brands of all sizes. Designed to make collaboration easy and intuitive, Popular Pays enables you to scale your content creation efforts and launch marketing campaigns that drive business impact, without juggling multiple platforms or creator touchpoints. Our creator marketplace allows you to easily source and find the influencers and creators who align with your brand values and audience. Popular Pays is an official partner of Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Pinterest, and works with brands such as Kelloggs, Kraft, Delta, and Lyft.
Board Member
Jul 2017
Detroit Institute of Music Education (DIME) is a music institute like no other – custom built for serious musicians who desire a long-term, professional career in modern music. The courses are designed to build strong musical foundations, which will lead to long and sustained careers in the music industry alongside gaining academic qualifications. DIME’s approach to Music Education is unique. Our measures of success are different from others. For instance, have you ever considered why highly technical music often reaches a smaller audience than ‘simple’ music? All of our high-level courses are for musicians and entrepreneurs who wish to excel and maximize their musical ability, whilst learning how the industry works. At DIME, we never forget the importance of earning a living from music. Navigating your way round the music industry is a complicated business, and learning from experience is the best way. DIME’s founders and instructors have that experience. You will discover how to build your musical career from people who have enjoyed sustained success.
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2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
TenFore has developed powerful and easy-to-use cloud-based point of sale, tee sheet, booking engine, and marketing software for public and private golf courses, retail shops, and food and beverage operations. Our software provides course owners mobility on and off the course, payment choices, payment processing, concierge support, reporting, and needed integrations so that owners can manage their businesses how they choose and without limitation.
2024
Board Observer
Sep 2024
CYRISMA™ is a revolutionary cybersecurity platform that helps organizations manage risk without the usual headaches associated with enterprise cybersecurity tools. Designed for organizations that demand a clear and immediate return on investment, CYRISMA™ simplifies the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating technical risks, all while eliminating high licensing costs, long deployment times, and burdensome technologies. Our data-centric approach to cybersecurity streamlines your cybersecurity efforts by focusing on what’s important while providing a simple, easy-to-use platform for identifying risks, strengthening weak configurations, and neutralizing risks through accountability. We are the simple choice for effective cybersecurity.
Board Member
Feb 2024
Sprocket Security was founded to improve the way we approach cybersecurity. Currently the industry performs services in a timeboxed, or point-in-time approach. We think this is fundamentally flawed. We protect your business by monitoring the cybersecurity landscape and performing continuous penetration testing services.
2023
Board Observer
Nov 2023
At Yogi, we believe in the transformative power of listening. Every consumer voice carries immense impact, whether it be a personal story, shopper pain, or a suggestion for innovation. Yet, many brands fail to unlock this tremendous value, missing critical insights that are essential for staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market. Yogi sifts through the chaos of data to uncover the whispers and shouts that are reshaping product landscapes and defining consumer experiences for consumer goods brands. True understanding goes beyond processing words; it’s about grasping the underlying meanings and sentiment behind them, categorizing and organizing these insights in a way that’s meaningful and easy to act on. Utilizing the power of AI and deep machine learning, Yogi transforms raw data from ratings, reviews, social chatter, and support tickets into structured, clear insights down to the SKU and attribute level. This process provides brands with precise, actionable intelligence that is directly aligned with business goals, paving the way for impactful outcomes and de-risking future investments. Yogi serves as a strategic ally across the organization—from insights and innovation to consumer experience, marketing, and e-commerce. At Yogi, every piece of feedback not only supports confident, data-driven choices but also elevates consumer engagement by turning insights into real value. Every decision maker has timely access to these insights, ensuring that business strategies are no longer disjointed, effectively backed by shopper voices, and responsive to consumer needs. By delivering exactly what consumers seek, Yogi fosters deeper brand loyalty and satisfaction. This dedication to delivering value strengthens not just brands, but the entire consumer relationship, enhancing life’s everyday moments through better products and experiences. Join Conagra, Nestle, Microsoft, and other market leaders getting consumer intelligence at record speed with meetyogi.com.
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Tovuti is an all-in-one training and learning management system built for organizations of all sizes. From SMBs to enterprises, regulated industries, and government agencies, hundreds of organizations worldwide choose Tovuti to support employee training and career development, compliance, sales enablement, customer and partner education, and more. And with 40+ gamified elements, social learning capabilities, and simple admin tools, Tovuti makes education fun for learners and easy on administrators.
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