Chris Bishko is an investment partner at Omidyar Network, where he leads investments in technology-enabled financial services companies in the United States. He focuses on for-profit companies that empower individuals and merchants in underserved markets through innovative products and services, and nonprofit organizations that strengthen the financial services sector overall. Chris is responsible for the firm’s investments in Prosper Marketplace and Rev Worldwide and its grant to the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI). He also invests in consumer Internet and mobile technology organizations, and oversees Omidyar Network’s investments in Change.org and Neoteny Labs and its support of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2008, Chris was an investment banking client coverage officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was responsible for covering enterprise software and services companies. Chris began his career as a private equity investment professional with JPMorgan Capital, focusing on financial services. While at JPMorgan Capital, he helped lead more than $450 million of financial services investments.
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The Next Phase in Financial Services: What Low-income Americans Tell Us
Both established players and disruptive entrepreneurs recognize that shifts in mobile, data, and payments are transforming financial services. Yet while everyone is trying to innovate, there is little real vision on how new solutions can redefine financial services so they seamlessly integrate with our lives and provide us with substantial improvements in how we manage our finances. This is especially urgent when it comes to using new technologies to help the financially underserved in the United States.
