Matthew Alfieri joined Centana in 2017 and is a Partner on the investment team, and he currently serves on the Board of Eventus Systems and serves as a Board Observer at Beacon, Plooto, Sayari Labs, SpyCloud and Zesty.ai. Matthew was named one of GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors (2022) and was named one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street (2019).
Prior to Centana, Matthew spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a Vice President with the Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) team working in London and New York. During his time with PSI, Matthew gained experience investing in financial technology, market structure, and enterprise software companies. He led eight investments and served on the Boards of six of the companies; his investments included Barefoot Networks (acquired by Intel), Vapor IO, Unbound Tech, Aquilon Energy Services and The New York Shipping Exchange. Prior to PSI, Matthew was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, working within the debt and equity financing teams based in New York. He received a BA in Business Administration in the Financial Analyst Honors Program from the University at Albany.
Venture capitalists are increasingly keen on firms that can guide merchants through a maze of emerging processing options.
/PRNewswire/ -- Eventus Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, today announced that it has...
Centana Growth Partners, fintech and financial Services-focused growth equity firm, promotes Matthew Alfieri to Principal, Jay Lee to Vice President
Fintech investor Centana Growth Partners has not yet invested in a payments orchestration firm, but plans to in the next 6 to 12 months. The catalyst for this investment will be the July launch of the Federal Reserve's instant settlement platform. "FedNow will create demand for payment orchestration," said Matt Afieri, a partner at Centana which includes accounts payable fintechs Plooto and Operto and insurtech OneInc in its portfolio. "There are a lot of different challenges that these new payment options bring and businesses will need guidance."