What We Do
Synchrony’s vision is to empower our customers to build a future where every ambition is within reach. Synchrony Ventures backs early-stage entrepreneurs who share this vision of empowering people to reach high and to do so with confidence.
We look for technologies and teams to help Synchrony better serve our customers while accelerating Synchrony’s pace of innovation. With the power of Synchrony’s ecosystem including 70M+ consumers and 300,000+ partners, we enable startups to scale and co-create new products and services, with the goal of reshaping the future of financial services.
We’re Active in Three Sectors
Financial Services
Our vision is that finance is an enabler for consumers, small businesses, and large enterprises to grow. We invest in financial platforms that believe in seamless experiences, delightful design, and deep intuitive understanding of the customers they aim to serve. People’s financial lives are not linear, and as priorities and life stages shift, we focus on tailored but scalable products and experiences.
Commerce
An increasingly digital and connected world has transformed the customer journey, forcing businesses to rethink how to reach, transact with, and engage customers. We invest in next-generation platforms, products and services that delight users and that reach them when purchase intent is being formed and activated.
Healthcare
For humans and pets, we are witnessing momentous shifts in how we find the care we need, how that care is delivered, and how we pay for it. We back entrepreneurs who seek to better the care journey, with focus on healthcare financing, payments, and enabling access to quality care for you (and your pets!).
Meet Our Team
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Trish Mosconi is Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Development Leader of Synchrony. Trish is responsible for defining and developing Synchrony’s strategic vision and plan to drive long-term growth. She leads Synchrony’s enterprise and platform strategy, merger and acquisition activities, network partnerships and corporate venture arm, Synchrony Ventures. Trish joined Synchrony from BlackRock where she was Managing Director for the Financial Markets Advisory Group and leader of the Strategic Consulting practice. Prior to BlackRock, Trish had more than two decades of consulting experience in financial services at Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company. Trish enjoys spending time with her family and chocolate lab Boomer and looks forward to getting out on the water whether on a boat or scuba diving.
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Jeff is SVP, Head of Synchrony Ventures where he oversees the day to day operations of Synchrony Ventures. Jeff has over 15 years of experience in financial services, much of that time advising FinTechs and consumer lenders on strategy, capital raising and M&A transactions. Jeff joined Synchrony in 2019 to lead Synchrony’s M&A team prior to transitioning to Synchrony Ventures. Prior to joining Synchrony, Jeff was a Director at Credit Suisse focused on FinTech. Jeff is a graduate of the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in Finance and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. He enjoys spending time with his wife and 3 kids, traveling internationally and watching college hoops.
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Josh joined the team in 2019 after spending four years leading all aspects of transactional work at American Family Ventures. At Synchrony, he focuses on consumer and enterprise companies innovating in markets served by Synchrony’s home, auto and health & wellness businesses. Josh worked in health tech before studying human-computer interaction and finance at the University of Michigan. He has profound respect and empathy for founders resulting from his own attempts to start up. Josh loves spending time with his wife, daughter and bulldog mix “Hashbrown,” and never tires watching or talking about baseball.
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Ajay Patel is an investor at Synchrony Ventures based in New York. He joined the team in 2022 after spending time at Verizon Ventures, in corporate M&A, and consulting. At Synchrony, Ajay is focused on software solutions that enable frictionless banking across the infrastructure, opportunities that enhance digital businesses such as next generation rewards programs, and emerging blockchain infrastructure that may enhance existing banking solutions or facilitate Web 3.0. Ajay is a graduate of Rutgers Business School with a B.S. in Finance.
Outside of work, he spends time with his wife and son hiking trails year round. When he isn’t chasing his son around and memorizing the Disney Cars universe character names, he is seed investing in the garden or almost completing home renovations. He also has a huge passion for cars, and lives the mantra “the answer is always Miata”.
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Roshan Prakash is an investor at Synchrony Ventures based in New York. Prior to joining the team in 2022, she was a strategy consultant at American Express advising senior leadership on digital initiatives and M&A. Roshan previously led customer experience innovation for Fintech lender OnDeck and worked on the Astia Fund investment team. Having started her career at early-stage startups, she holds a special appreciation for the operating journey and helping founders bridge corporate partnerships.
Roshan is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. Outside of venture, you can find her exploring live music, art, and design in Brooklyn.
