Sprint Ventures

Sprint commits internal team members as embedded entrepreneurs-in-residence, often joining portfolio company boards as formal directors or observers. The firm provides financial, human, intellectual and social capital, with team members rolling up sleeves on operational, strategic and governance matters. This hands-on posture is central to Sprint's founder-first investment thesis.

Sprint targets Australian high-growth businesses at the seed and early-growth stages that possess global scale potential. The firm looks for strong environmental, social and governance characteristics and prefers sectors where Sprint has deep domain experience, including fintech, enterprise software, digital health, clean energy, and precision agriculture.

Sprint operates under the Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL 274444) held by Bentleys (QLD) Advisory. Sprint entities act as corporate authorised representatives (CAR 1316599) of Bentleys. The firm deals exclusively with wholesale investors as defined under Section 761G or Section 761GA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Founder Llew Jury and Director Georgia Barkell are the named investment team members, supported by Heath Shonhan (Partner at Bentleys Qld, responsible for the AFSL governance and investment committee) and Ben Armstrong (Principal of LJ Hooker Commercial Brisbane). The integrated Bentleys relationship adds an institutional layer to deal evaluation.

Sprint describes operating a venture studio from its Brisbane head office, but its disclosed activity aligns more closely with a standard early-stage VC that embeds operators — there is no evidence of a standalone studio generating new companies from internal ideation. The studio references appear to describe the embedded-in-residence model rather than a separate company-creation factory.