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Back to News JMI Equity leads growth capital investment, joined by existing Vena investor Centana Growth Partners. TORONTO, Jan. 09, 2019  -- Vena Solutions, one of the fastest growing providers of cloud-based financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software, is proud to announce it has raised $115 million in equity financing. Software-focused growth equity firm JMI [...]

What does it take to succeed as an entrepreneur in fintech? Ben Cukier offers insight on founding Centana and key lessons from his experience with fintech entrepreneurs in his interview with John Siracusa from BANK ON IT Podcast. Check it out here

Centana partners Eric Byunn and Ben Cukier named in this year’s Institutional Investor Fintech Finance 40 list. To read the full article, click here 

TechCrunch | Josh Constine | October 30, 2018 To get an edge on the market, investors must look beyond traditional financial info like revenue and profits. Our every online activity generates data exhaust like web traffic, Twitter mentions, app downloads, and search trends. It’s the ability to overlay the old and new data sets to [...]

Marks continued growth for financial research platform with over 700 buy-side, corporate, and sell-side clients Unique tech offering leverages AI and natural language processing to surface financial insights   San Francisco, CA - October 30, 2018 – Sentieo, a next-generation financial research platform, announced today that it has closed a $19 million Series A funding round led [...]

Institutional Investor | Julie Segal | September 6, 2018 Centana Growth is investing in asset manager Alaia Capital, hoping to do for structured products what PowerShares did for ETFs: commoditize them. To read the full article, click here

Centana Growth Partners leads funding to accelerate next generation of investment solutions  Darien, Conn., September 6, 2018 - Alaia Capital, an independent asset management firm focused on the next generation of defined outcome investment solutions, announced today a $5.5 million strategic investment led by Centana Growth Partners, a growth equity firm. Centana Growth Partners is joined [...]

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