Centana Growth Partners

Centana Growth Partners is a growth equity firm with a global mandate and offices in Palo Alto and New York. It puts capital into fast-growing companies in financial services and the software sold to them, and builds each deal around what the entrepreneur needs.

What Centana Growth Partners does

• Growth capital: money for working capital, acquisitions or reducing the founder's personal balance-sheet risk.
• Tailored structures: no standard formula; each investment is shaped case by case.
• Board experience: partners have sat on boards in these sectors.
• Strategic network: access to executives and industry figures across financial services.

Customers and markets

Companies in asset management, insurance, wealth management, banking, payments and capital markets, plus fintech and enterprise software vendors. It looks for strong growth, a capable leadership team, good unit economics and real customer traction.

Key facts

• Based in: Palo Alto and New York
• Sectors: financial services, fintech, enterprise software