Cybersecurity Services for Centre Technologies

On 24 June 2026 Centre Technologies announced a strategic investment from LightBay Capital, with two LightBay partners taking seats on the board. Chris Pace, who founded the company and still leads it, has built a business of roughly 350 people across Texas and Oklahoma. Centre also sells managed security services into government, where the buying rules and the audit expectations are set before the first conversation. Few providers its size take that on

Regulated buyers change the shape of the pipeline. They arrive with named obligations rather than open budgets, and Centre sells CMMC consulting into the defense industrial base, which is about as unforgiving as compliance work gets. Growth capital sharpens the same problem from the other side. Money buys sales capacity in weeks and delivery capacity in quarters, and Centre is already spread over Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, with a bench assembled partly by absorbing other providers. The gap between what can be sold and what can be staffed in the week it is needed is where a growth story goes wrong

CWS closes that gap quietly. Our engineers work under the Centre name, to a single delivery standard, on engagements anywhere in the United States and Canada, in English and in French when a client's Quebec or Canadian federal footprint calls for it. Corova handles the scoping and the quote, then tracks the project, so Centre's account teams see the same status the delivery team does. No badge changes hands, and no customer ever meets a subcontractor