Eric Brundage

Eric Brundage is a Managing Director at Genki Capital, an independent investment bank incorporated in 2014 and headquartered in the Dallas area (corporate office in Plano, Texas). Genki represents both buyers and sellers on share and asset acquisitions, mergers, and leveraged buyouts, running confidential closed-auction processes designed to maximize competition and valuation. Brundage is an investment banker with roughly 25 years of M&A and capital-raising experience, and works alongside a leadership team that includes Adam Hiebert (President/CEO), Michael Ross, Patrick Sullivan, Sally Wong, and Thomas K. Dickens.

Before Genki Capital, Brundage held senior roles across a series of Texas and boutique advisory firms, including Barrier Advisors, Nex Capital, Samco Capital Markets, and Nexbank Capital Advisors. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Vice President at Allegiance Capital, a middle-market investment bank in Dallas, where in 2010 the Dallas Business Journal named him a "Dealmaker of the Year" — specifically "Best Returns Multiplier" — for closing three transactions averaging about $125 million each between mid-2008 and the end of 2009, a period when overall M&A volume fell 27%. At the time he framed his approach this way: "In my view all challenges can be overcome. The key is to deliver the same 'can-do' spirit to the deal process that our clients have used to build their businesses."

Beyond banking, Brundage is CEO of Sand Spring Partners, a U.S. family office focused on wealth transfer, wealth-accumulation tax strategy, and alternative/non-correlated investment strategies for families and family offices. He is also described as a founder/operator across several ventures — founder of Open Mortgage LLC and DexterityCE LLC, and a partner at Fundient LLC (a commercial real-estate financing / growth-financing firm) — and has been associated with Monaco Life, an English-language media outlet in Monaco. He is an author and speaker as well as a tech/finance investor.

Educationally, Brundage earned a bachelor's degree (economics) from Texas Christian University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (2001–2006).

• Primary lens is transactional, not classic venture: His day-to-day work is sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory at Genki Capital — share purchases, asset acquisitions, mergers, and leveraged buyouts — rather than writing large numbers of seed checks.
• Middle-market and founder/family businesses: His track record (notably at Allegiance Capital) centers on privately held, often family-owned companies pursuing sales, mergers, or partial divestitures.
• Personal angel/early-stage activity in finance & fintech: Publicly he is characterized as a tech/finance angel investor; his own operating ventures (mortgage/lending via Open Mortgage, continuing-education via DexterityCE, growth financing via Fundient) point to fintech, lending, and financial-services adjacencies as areas of conviction.
• Family-office and alternatives mindset: Through Sand Spring Partners he emphasizes wealth transfer, tax efficiency, and alternative/non-correlated strategies — suggesting a preference for downside-aware, structured opportunities.
• Note: No publicly documented seed check size or defined startup investment criteria could be verified; the "angel / seed" designation reflects personal investing, not a formal fund thesis.