Bloom Equity Partners: 2025 Year In Review

Translating Vision into Value and Market Leadership

As we step into 2026, the team at Bloom Equity Partners takes great pride in reflecting on a year where strategy turned into substance. 2025 was defined by a commitment to discipline and clarity, allowing us to move beyond proving concepts to anchoring our transactions in long-term market leadership and thoughtful consolidation. We are deeply grateful to our partners and friends, whose continued trust remains the foundation of our collective success. We enter 2026 encouraged by the progress across our portfolio and optimistic about what opportunity lies ahead.

2025 Highlights

For Bloom, 2025 was a year where strategy turned into substance. We moved beyond proving concepts and focused on building scale, durability, and leadership positions inside our platforms. Every transaction we pursued was anchored in a long-term view of where markets are going and how our companies can lead them. This was not about activity for its own sake; it was about thoughtful consolidation, strengthening competitive position, and creating businesses that are meaningfully better at the end of the year than they were at the beginning.

Soutron Continues M&A & Leadership Team Build out

At Soutron Global, we completed the public-to-private acquisition of Auto-Graphics, the third take-private transaction across the Bloom portfolio in 18 months. The Auto-Graphics acquisition aided in transforming Soutron into a broader informational archiving platform serving complex use cases for customers worldwide. To support this rapid scaling, we significantly strengthened the executive suite with the appointments of a new CEO, COO, and Head of Marketing. With the business having doubled in size since 2024, this enhanced leadership team ensures Soutron is well-positioned for both continued organic growth and further accretive M&A.

GRC Acquires DTC Through a Complex Carve-out

At GRC Solutions (GRCS), we expanded the business through the acquisition of Digital Trust Consulting (DTC) from the British Standards Institution. The acquisition meaningfully strengthens GRCS’s cybersecurity and digital trust capabilities while extending its reach across Europe and the United States and almost doubles the size of the company. It also brings an exceptional group of professionals into the organization, adding depth and expertise that will benefit clients for years to come.

Portfolio Value Creation

While transactions create momentum, we have also focused on building organic operational value inside the businesses. What stands out in 2025 is the steady, disciplined progress made by our management teams across product development, customer experience, and operational execution. In particular, execution in key performance areas has been enhanced by incorporating AI into mission-critical workflows to support operational reporting and tactical transparency across each organization. This has improved the quality of the work across the portfolio: decisions became more data-driven, execution more predictable, and teams more confident in their direction. These are the important signs of companies that are becoming stronger, more scalable, and more resilient.

RightCrowd Sets Records in Growth

At RightCrowd, momentum continued to build across sales, product, and customer engagement. The business is growing with improving quality, driven by stronger software adoption and expanding customer relationships. More customers are choosing cloud-based deployments, new self-service capabilities are making the platform easier to use, and AI-driven functionality is becoming a meaningful part of the product experience. Strategic partnerships are also playing a growing role in expanding market reach.

Equally important, the organization itself is stronger. Key leadership roles were filled, including a new CFO and Head of Channel, financial discipline was tightened, and operating processes became more predictable. To no one’s surprise, RightCrowd enters 2026 with an opportunity to set new growth records, with expectations to exceed an already strong performance record in 2025.

BlackTiger Develops Foundation for Increased Scalability

For BlackTiger, 2025 was a year of high-velocity growth and strategic evolution. Building upon an established operational base, the company moved aggressively into its next phase of scale. The platform was supercharged with an AI-first architecture, streamlining development and introducing powerful new features that have significantly reduced time-to-value for customers. To lead this next chapter, we intentionally rounded out the executive bench, welcoming a new CEO and world-class leaders across product, technology, marketing, sales, and customer success. With a modernized stack and a complete leadership team, BlackTiger is now uniquely positioned to define the future of its category.

GRC Solutions Supports Regulatory Workflows with AI

At GRCS, progress was visible across product, marketing, and sales execution. The launch of new AI-focused services helps clients navigate the real risks and compliance challenges that come with adopting emerging technologies. It reinforces GRCS’s role as a trusted advisor in a fast-changing regulatory environment. We hired a new CEO and head of marketing, and made significant additions to the GRCS sales team. The integration of DTC represents another major step forward. It adds scale, expands enterprise and government relationships, strengthens international reach, and brings in exceptional talent. Combined, these changes position GRCS for a much larger role in the global cybersecurity and digital trust landscape.

Firm Platform Development

As our portfolio continues to mature, so does the Bloom platform. 2025 marked a landmark milestone in our evolution with the formal launch of the Operating Group’s Shared Services team. This transition represents a strategic shift from a team of high-caliber generalist Operating Partners to a sophisticated Hub-and-Spoke model. By pairing our veteran Operating Partners with deep-domain Operating Directors, we have created a powerful engine for delivering massive leverage across both investment diligence and portfolio company support.

The inaugural spoke of this shared service offering is Talent Acquisition, led by the appointment of Andrea Hutchinson as Operating Director, Talent. In her first quarter alone, Andrea standardized hiring playbooks across the platform and successfully reduced time-to-hire by over 30% as we manage a rapidly growing aggregate of 50+ open roles.

These investments in specialized infrastructure allow us to be an even more effective partner to our management teams. We further deepened this platform-wide collaboration through two key 2025 initiatives:

• The CXO Symposium Series: Facilitating high-impact sessions where C-suite leaders network across the portfolio and share real-world playbooks and practical insights from their respective companies.

• The Bloom AI Guild: Ensuring our portfolio remains at the forefront of the AI-first landscape, integrating intelligence into both core products and internal operations.

These efforts are about more than just resources; they are about building a self-reinforcing community of operators who learn from each other and raise standards across the entire Bloom ecosystem.

Capital Markets and M&A Environment

The past year reminded us that patience and discipline matter. Capital remains selective, and quality continues to stand out. In this environment, our focus on complex situations, carve-outs, and platform building remains well suited. We continue to see an abundance of opportunities where M&A, operational depth, and long-term thinking make a difference.

2026 Outlook

We enter 2026 with confidence and humility. Our priorities remain consistent:

• Investing in vertical software, enterprise data tooling, and compliance-driven platforms

• Continuing thoughtful consolidation through add-on acquisitions

• Advancing cloud-based and AI-enabled product strategies

• Supporting exceptional leadership teams with the resources they need to succeed

We are excited about the work ahead and motivated by the responsibility that comes with stewarding your capital.

Closing

We are sincerely grateful for the partnership we share with our LPs, management teams, and advisors. The progress made in 2025 reflects your support and collaboration just as much as our own efforts. We look forward to building on this foundation together in 2026 and beyond.

Warm regards,

Bloom Equity Partners

Contact: IR@bloomequitypartners.com