Centana News

Forbes | Ben Cukier | June 11th, 2018 Fintechs have promised to make selling and buying a house more efficient. But they have yet to deliver (fully) on the promise... To read the full article, click here

Forbes | Ben Cukier | May 8, 2018 It’s all about the…These days, for consumer fintech companies in wealth management (we will call them fintechs for short), it is, to paraphrase Meghan Trainor, all about the millennials. Fintech unicorns are... To read the full article, click here

Centana Growth Partners backs leader in digital verification amid notable executive hires and enterprise customer wins Portland, OR — January 23, 2018 — SheerID, the market leader in verification technology enabling digital trust for the enterprise, is excited to announce the close of an $18 million Series B investment round led by Silicon Valley and New [...]

NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Centana Growth Partners (Centana), a unique growth equity firm focused on the future of financial services, today announced an expansion of its investment team with the hiring of Tom Davis, Principal, and Matthew Alfieri, Vice President. Mr. Davis and Mr. Alfieri join the firm after the [...]

TABB Forum | Terry Roche with Ben Cukier | October 16, 2017 The implementation of MiFID II has implications worldwide, from trading firms, to asset managers, to consumers. As firms race to the deadline, data and reporting, in particular, present challenges, but they also offer opportunities... To read the full article and view the video, click [...]

American Banker | Eric Byunn + Tom Davis | September 15, 2017 The 2008 movie “WALL-E” imagined a futuristic world in which the megacorporation Buy n Large runs every facet of consumers’ lives. Nine years later, technology has come so far that such a scenario seems conceivable in the real world. Amazon continues to overtake [...]

Tearsheet | By Tanaya Macheel | July 19, 2017 One of the biggest problems in financial technology is that considering the vast amount of theoretical solutions, most startups can’t quite figure out how to scale their products. That’s the trouble with tech startups acting like banks: They need burdensome service-level agreements and have requirements on how [...]

Capital infusion to fuel expansion into new regions and asset classes NEW YORK, July 12, 2017 — Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent, global financial technology company providing advanced algorithms and data-driven analytics to clients in the futures and US cash treasury markets, today announced a $24 million strategic investment from Centana Growth Partners. EXECUTION EXPERTISE AND [...]

American Banker | by Sarah Wynn | June 14, 2017 Centana Growth Partners has raised $250 million to invest in financial services startups. Since its beginnings in 2015, Centana has invested in four companies, including the insurance technology company One and digital identity management firm Jumio. The New York-based limited partnership says it is hunting [...]