Centrality

Centrality is a New Zealand-based venture studio that partners with innovators across various industries to develop decentralized applications and platforms. By leveraging blockchain technology, Centrality aims to create a peer-to-peer marketplace of applications, enabling consumers to manage everyday tasks and experiences through secure, decentralized transactions. The company provides resources and support to developers, startups, and small businesses, facilitating the creation of consumer-focused decentralized applications within its ecosystem.

The venture studio's investment strategy focuses on early-stage and growth-stage companies, particularly in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. Centrality has a diverse portfolio, including ventures like CENNZnet, a natively permissioned blockchain offering a secure user experience, and Sylo, a decentralized communication network. The studio also invests in Centrapay, a payment solution connecting businesses and customers, and P^werFinance, a digital-led embedded finance platform. These investments reflect Centrality's commitment to fostering innovation in the decentralized web.

Centrality's approach emphasizes a user-centric and open-source culture, aiming to build the infrastructure for the emerging decentralized web. The studio has a growing ecosystem with developers, ventures, partnered businesses, and startups passionate about creating a thriving decentralized future together. With a team of approximately 75 people across Auckland, London, and Melbourne, Centrality is backed by a global investor network that shares its vision of transitioning the world to a blockchain-enabled future.