Matthew Alfieri
Centana Growth Partners
Partner
New York, New York

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Category: Emerging Growth
Mark: AA

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Biography

Matthew is a Partner at Centana Growth Partners, a growth equity firm focused on financial services and related enterprise software companies. With approximately 15 years of investing experience, he has led 17 investments across vertical and horizontal software companies relevant to the financial services sector. At Centana, he currently serves as a director on the boards of Benepass, Eventus, Gradient AI, and Vividly, and serves as a board observer at Plooto, Sayari, SpyCloud, and Zesty.ai. Recent highlights include leading Centana’s investments in Benepass and Vividly and the sale of Beacon to Clearwater Analytics. Matthew also works closely with the firm’s advisory board and leads or has led several firmwide initiatives, including recruiting and investment team training.


Prior to Centana, he spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, where he led eight investments and served on the boards of six fintech and enterprise software companies. He received a BA in business administration from the University at Albany’s Financial Analyst Honors Program and has been recognized as one of GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors (2022, 2023, and 2024) and as one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street (2019).


Awards

Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors: 2025, 2024, 2023