#012 - Bart Macdonald: From Founder to Setting Up a VC & PE fund (Bloom Venture Partners)

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Cyrus and Iman talk to Bart Macdonald - Managing Partner at Bloom Venture Partners, where "investment firm meets startup studio". They discuss why Bloom is a novel business model (capital, studio, & equity) and how Bart and his team think about investments across Bloom’s portfolio. Bloom buy, build, and invest in SaaS. Full Bloom Podcast: https://bloomvp.buzzsprout.com/ Bart’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BartMacdonald Bloom Venture Partners website: https://www.bloomvp.com/ Bloom Venture Partners newsletter: https://bloomvp.substack.com/ This podcast provides weekly content on technology investing and technology building. We also write long-form memos on all things tech investing and building. You can sign up for these monthly memo newsletters on the website: https://www.rationalvc.com/ We've already reached 100+ monthly newsletter subscribers in just a few weeks and are now looking to get to 200 monthly memo subscribers by the end of Jan 2021 - please help us reach this milestone! Thanks! We break everything down to first principles, to simplify the complex technology world. We aim to bring you content that is insightful, logical, and rational. We cover tech products and tech companies across the lifecycle, from pre-seed to seed, Series A to D+, to IPOs and beyond. We also cover all investing methods including Angel Investing, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Public Markets, SPACs etc.

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