# Chris Winship

> Chris Winship is a private equity investor at FTV Capital backing Financial Services. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FTV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftv-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 76%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwinship

Chris Winship is a private equity investor at FTV Capital in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Chris Winship is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Senior Advisor of FTV Capital. Chris previously worked at Salomon Smith Barney as a analyst. Chris Winship attended the Dartmouth College.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 38% |
| FinTech | 7 | 33% |
| Payments | 7 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 24% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 6 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 24% |
| Series C | 3 | 14% |
| Series D | 3 | 14% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 62% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ConnexPay | ConnexPay transforms payment acceptance and issuance for Travel and E-commerce providers which act as intermediaries. By offering clients a revolutionary way to minimize risks and reduce credit and debit card acceptance costs through linked real-time payments issued to suppliers, ConnexPay’s clients avoid the need for large lines of credit orpersonal guarantees.ConnexPay provides a comprehensive, integrated payments solution which incorporates powerful anti-fraud detection along with PCI-certified payment acceptance and payment issuance — driven by ConnexPay’s patent pending intelligent routing and single-use virtual cards — to handle every step of the process.Through a single provider under a simple contract, Travel and E-commerce providers can accept payments from clients and issue payments to suppliers with single-use virtual cards from multiple major card brands. ConnexPay’s advanced solution does not require clients to obtain large lines of credit, provide large reserves, or prepay for most services. Their difference makes all the difference. | $110M | Private Equity | Oct 25, 2022 |  |
| Payall Payment Systems | PayAll Payment Systems is a provider of a payment systems platform that offers easier ways to make payments. It also offers features such as wallets, pay in flexibility, pay-out, managed acceptance, virtual mastercard, card acceptance, and communications platform. | $10M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| OpenSesame | OpenSesame is an e-learning company that provides online training courses for businesses and employees. With the most comprehensive catalog of e-learning courses from the world’s top publishers, it helps in every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to core competencies, syncing them with LMS to increasing utilization, and improvingL&D programs. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon. | $50M | Series D | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Embroker | Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurancemarket. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states. | $100M | Series C | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| 6 Degrees Health | 6 Degrees Health is built to bring equity and fairness back into the healthcare reimbursement equation. Industry-leading MediVI technology supports our cost containment solutions with objective, transparent, and defensible data. 6 Degrees Health’s solutions include everything from provider market analyses, reasonable value claim reports, ad hocclaim negotiations, evergreening provider contracts, and referenced-based pricing. Our veteran cost containment team partners with health plans and their channel partners to deliver unparalleled cost containment results. |  | Private Equity | Sep 09, 2020 |  |
| OpenSesame | OpenSesame is an e-learning company that provides online training courses for businesses and employees. With the most comprehensive catalog of e-learning courses from the world’s top publishers, it helps in every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to core competencies, syncing them with LMS to increasing utilization, and improvingL&D programs. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon. | $28M | Series C | May 28, 2019 |  |
| Tango Card | Tango Card provides leading incentive-delivery technology to organizations in the B2B space. Globally, enterprise companies use this technology to deliver an extensive catalog of domestic and global e-gift cards as part of consumer loyalty programs, sales incentive programs, health and wellness engagement, and employee recognition. Tango Cardbelieves instantly delivering the most desirable rewards maximizes impact and drives real business results. This belief is woven into Tango Card’s industry-leading products: RaaS API, which integrates digital rewards into web platforms and applications, and Rewards Genius™, a self-serve portal for administering rewards. | $10M | Private Equity | Feb 12, 2019 |  |
| Tango Card | Tango Card provides leading incentive-delivery technology to organizations in the B2B space. Globally, enterprise companies use this technology to deliver an extensive catalog of domestic and global e-gift cards as part of consumer loyalty programs, sales incentive programs, health and wellness engagement, and employee recognition. Tango Cardbelieves instantly delivering the most desirable rewards maximizes impact and drives real business results. This belief is woven into Tango Card’s industry-leading products: RaaS API, which integrates digital rewards into web platforms and applications, and Rewards Genius™, a self-serve portal for administering rewards. | $35M | Private Equity | May 18, 2018 |  |
| EBANX | EBANX is an integrated international financial services company offering an end-to-end payment solution across the entire e-commerce transaction flow. It also helps international business to grow faster in LatAm offering a local payments experience for your customers. 'In 2015, The company received EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, BestInternational CNP Program Award, and Endeavor “O Pulo do Gato” Award.EBANX was founded in February 2012 and is headquartered in Parana, Brazil. | $30M | Series A | Jan 31, 2018 |  |
| Vpay | VPay is the total B2B payment solution. By reducing checks with fast and secure electronic payment, VPay simplifies the reconciliation process while also eliminating processing and management costs. And VPay’s pioneering virtual card technology helps companies realize unexpected and unprecedented revenue return.Led by a team with over 50 yearsexperience in financial services, VPay uses patented technology to facilitate billions of dollars in payments for clients in a variety of insurance and corporate payment verticals to thousands of unique service providers, including over 650,000 healthcare Providers and 100,000 auto repair facilities. | $76M | Private Equity | Feb 17, 2016 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [JMI Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jmi-equity) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Passport Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/passport-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tola Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tola-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FTV Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $1.8 billion since its inception to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in three sectors: enterprise solutions, financial services, and payments/transaction processing. FTV’s experienced team leverages its domain expertise and proven trackrecord in each of these sectors to help motivated management teams accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to its Global Partner Network, a group of the world’s leading enterprises and executives who have helped FTV portfolio companies for more than a decade. Founded in 1998, FTV Capital has invested in 86 portfolio companies and has offices in San Francisco and New York.

5 contacts available at FTV Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Malvone | Principal | — |
| Brent Fierro | Partner | — |
| Chris Winship | Senior Advisor | — |
| Jerome Hershey | Investor | — |
| Justin Levine | Senior Associate | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Winship invest in?

Chris Winship invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Chris Winship?

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### When did Chris Winship last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Winship closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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