Sprint Capital

Managing Director Chris McAuliffe, who founded the firm in 2008, leads investment origination and execution. He is supported by Wang Xiangjun and Jacqueline Lim, both senior professionals with distinct operating histories in Chinese state-owned enterprises and cross-border law respectively. The firm’s public materials do not describe an investment committee beyond this three-person senior group.

The firm states that transaction origination is typically via referral, underpinned by a deep value approach to due diligence. McAuliffe’s 25-plus years in Asian industrials, including his tenure as co-head of Asia Pacific Industrials for Citigroup, and Wang’s two-decade energy and healthcare network in China form the pipeline’s core. The firm does not run a proprietary outreach or quant-screening engine.

It is a private equity and advisory firm, not a family office. The firm invests its own capital directly alongside advisory mandates but does not represent a single-family pool of wealth. There is no publicly disclosed external limited-partner base.

Publicly available information only describes direct investments and advisory mandates — M&A, equity or debt raising, growth capital, and restructuring. There is no mention of making fund commitments to third-party general partners.

The firm targets growth capital for companies needing funding for the next stage of development, pre-IPO rounds, partial divestitures, and situations where strategic or financial investors can add value. It also operates in restructuring mandates, making its stage coverage unusually broad for a partnership its size.

The firm names six verticals on its website: healthcare, consumer, resources, energy, transportation, and general industrials. There is no stated technology-sector mandate, though the website does not explicitly list any excluded sectors.

Sprint Capital’s model of investing its own capital alongside advisory work implies a willingness to co-invest, but the firm has not publicly disclosed specific co-investment vehicles or partner GPs. The “deep relationships with corporate and financial institutions across Asia” it cites suggest co-investment opportunities are negotiated bilaterally within its referral network rather than via a formal LP-based co-invest program.