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Bruce Macfarlane

Founder Partner at MMC Ventures

Director
Updated Nov 2, 2026·Latest SEC filing May 18, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Bruce Macfarlane

Bruce Macfarlane co-founded MMC Ventures and is a founder partner with overall responsibility for its portfolio. MMC names him as the investment lead on Cloudsmith, which it first backed in 2019. Before MMC he was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust and an M&A lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Bruce Macfarlane in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

MMC Ventures Current
Founder Partner
Cloudsmith Inc.
Director
2025 – 2026 · New York, NY
A fully managed artifact repository that stores, scans and distributes the packages, containers and AI models that engineering teams and coding agents use.
Merrill Lynch
Investment banker
Bankers Trust
Investment banker
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
M&A lawyer

Education

  • BA, English, Leeds University

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Bruce Macfarlane works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Cloudsmith Inc. · Form D, May 18, 2026
LS
Lee Skillen
Co-founder & CTO, director
MG
GW
Glenn Weinstein
CEO and director
AC
Alan Carson
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, director

Sources

  1. SECCloudsmith Inc. Form D, filed May 18, 2026
  2. Officialmmc.vc, Cloudsmith portfolio page (Investment Lead: Bruce Macfarlane; invested 2019)