Media
A selected record of interviews, podcasts, talks and independent coverage from different chapters of my career. Each item is dated and labelled with the role I held at the time.
Historic interviews describe the company, product and plans as they existed when the conversation was recorded.
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Rupert’s role at the time: Founder and operator
A long-form conversation about validating ideas, raising capital, building momentum, assessing founders and carrying lessons between very different industries.
The original episode title is retained as part of the public record. Its funding and medical language is the publisher’s framing rather than a standalone claim made by this website.
Rupert’s role at the time: Founder and operator
A candid conversation about entrepreneurship, failure, resilience and the lessons that are usually edited out of founder biographies.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and COO, Pynk
A conversation from the Pynk chapter about crowd intelligence, AI, financial inclusion and the idea that fintech should do more than digitise existing financial products.
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Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder, Strolll
A profile of Strolll’s origin, augmented-reality rehabilitation technology and the early development work involving Thomas Finn and Rupert.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and first CEO, Strolll
A profile of Strolll’s founders, the realities of building in health technology, its funding and its work with NHS trusts.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and COO, Pynk
Contemporary reporting on Pynk’s $2 million pre-seed and seed fundraising.
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Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and CEO, VALA
A company-era discussion of VALA’s intended combination of short-form content, social interaction and on-chain trading.
Recorded before Rupert stepped down as CEO in December 2024.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and CEO, Amulet
A discussion of DeFi risk, protection products and Amulet’s intended role in the Solana ecosystem.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and COO, Pynk
An early account of Rupert’s route from music, events, Android-related work and agency building into Pynk.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and COO, Pynk
A short interview about Pynk’s product and plans at that stage of its development.
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Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and COO, Centry
A wide-ranging panel on how technology, changing institutions and new expectations are reshaping finance, with Rupert contributing the founder and operator perspective.
Rupert’s role at the time: Interim COO, Sensay
A conversation about Sensay’s approach to digital replicas, knowledge, identity and human–AI collaboration.
A retained record of additional company-era and decentralised-finance appearances. These are available for context without dominating the current Centry-led story.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and strategic adviser, Amulet
A concise Breakpoint stage talk on the risks that accompany DeFi adoption and the role protection infrastructure can play in making participation more resilient.
Rupert’s role at the time: Founder and operator
Rupert moderates a discussion on decentralised media, creator ownership, provenance and how emerging technology may change the distribution of information.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and strategic adviser, Amulet
A panel discussion about balancing return and risk in DeFi, including the practical role of protection products, market structure and responsible participation.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder, Amulet
A focused keynote on why exploits reveal structural weaknesses in crypto markets and why risk infrastructure matters to the next stage of adoption.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and CEO, Amulet
A long-form discussion with Miko Matsumura about DeFi risk, protection infrastructure and the thinking behind Amulet during its early operating chapter.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and CEO, Amulet
Rupert moderates a panel on the evolution of DeFi, bringing together perspectives on security, protocols, market design and the infrastructure needed for broader adoption.
Rupert’s role at the time: Co-Founder and CEO, Amulet
A historic interview about Amulet’s proposed token and product plans as described in May 2022.
This records company plans in May 2022 and is not presented as a current proposition.
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Current biographies, approved owned photography and direct routes for context.
Rupert Barksfield is Co-Founder and COO of Centry, a wealth-engineering firm for globally mobile founders, investors and families. He is a founder and operator whose earlier work spans fintech, medtech, crypto and AI, including Pynk, Strolll, Amulet, Sensay and VALA. Rupert’s recurring role has been to connect product, people, capital, operations and partnerships. He is based in Cascais, Portugal.
Rupert Barksfield is Co-Founder and COO of Centry, where he helps build a coordinated wealth firm for globally mobile founders, investors and families. His career has spanned fintech, medtech, crypto and AI, including co-founding Pynk and Strolll, leading Amulet, operating at Sensay, co-founding VALA and now building Centry.
Across those different sectors, Rupert’s role has repeatedly involved turning ambitious ideas into functioning companies by aligning product, people, capital, operations, partnerships and company narrative. His experience includes ventures that grew, changed shape, continued without him and ended—giving him a practical interest in how founders make decisions under uncertainty and what happens when company value becomes personal wealth.
Rupert is British and based in Cascais, Portugal.
