Jackson Walker Assists Geekdom Fund in Forming Sidecar for Cloud Computing Startup

March 5, 2021 | Client Results



Jackson Walker attorneys Stephanie Chandler and Daniel Maldonado advised San Antonio-based venture capital fund Geekdom Fund in raising about $1.17 million in a sidecar equity funding round for cloud-based software provider MP Cloud Technologies.

Founded in 2014, Geekdom Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in early stage IT startups in San Antonio, South Texas, and beyond. Based in Austin, MP Cloud Technologies is the leading company providing fully-hosted, 100% cloud-based software for dispatch and revenue cycle management for EMS providers around the U.S.

In addition to MP Cloud Technologies, Geekdom Fund has raised money in sidecar equity funding rounds for a series of startups, including Abraxas, Braustin Homes, FunnelAI, One Model, and Tenfold. For more information about the investment deal, view the San Antonio Business Journal article “Geekdom Fund raises $1.17 million for Austin-based cloud company.”

To explore Jackson Walker’s experience counseling startups, forming investment funds, negotiating M&A transactions, and conducting public and private offerings, visit our Corporate & Securities practice and JWStartup pages.

Meet Our Team

San Antonio partner Stephanie L. Chandler partners with her clients to help them build their businesses. As the Firm’s Technology chair and a founding member of JWStartup, Stephanie has a track record of working with clients from the earliest stages of their development through significant liquidity events, typically in the role of outside general counsel managing the legal issues related to each growth stage. She has been recognized as one of 100 national Influencers in the area of Law by American City Business Journals (2018), with a Women’s Leadership Award from the San Antonio Business Journal (2017), in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a Recognized Practitioner in Technology: Corporate & Commercial – Texas (2017), and by The Best Lawyers in America in Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) (2017-2019) and in Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2019).

Daniel Maldonado is an associate in the Corporate & Securities practice of Jackson Walker’s San Antonio office. He was a summer associate at the Firm in 2019. This year, Daniel was named to Scene in S.A.’s list of “Rising Star Lawyers.”

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