Ladies First: Celebrating the Women of FinovateEurope 2025

Ladies First: Celebrating the Women of FinovateEurope 2025

This past Saturday marked International Women’s Day, but if you missed it, I’ve got good news: Women’s History Month is celebrated throughout the month.

In the US, Women’s History Week was first celebrated in 1982, and this commemoration of women’s history was extended to the full month of March four years later. To learn more about the history of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month—and their fascinating origins in European and women’s labor history—check out this primer from Time.com.

Here at Finovate, we have recognized the accomplishments of women in fintech and financial services for more than a decade. In both our conferences and on the Finovate blog, we have endeavored to showcase women who have founded and led some of the most innovative companies in our industry.

With this in mind, Finovate is once again proud to recognize the women who introduced themselves and their companies to our FinovateEurope audience this past February.


Catherine Kurt

CEO & Co-Founder, AQ22

Kurt (LinkedIn) is a co-founder at AQ22, leading the growth of an agentic banking orchestration platform that transforms financial workflows with AI-driven automation globally.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, AQ22 automates and accelerates up to 90% of commercial lending processes.


Tatiana Botskina

CEO, Deriskly

Botskina (LinkedIn) is an award-winning serial founder, Oxford-trained AI scientist, and banking lawyer with 10+ years of expertise in safe, explainable AI, and compliance for the financial sector.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in London, England, Deriskly empowers organizations to enhance customer trust, reduce compliance risks, and optimize engagement via AI-driven insights to create clear, effective, and customer-centric financial communications.


Jackie (Jac) Dunne

CEO, Dimply

Dunne (LinkedIn) is a seasoned executive whose expertise lies in the financial services and fintech/regtech industry. She has a proven track record in growing and building businesses and fostering relationships.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Dimply helps banks and credit unions unlock greater value from their data and create beautiful, personalized, insightful, and resonant embedded financial experiences.


Moyi Dang

CEO, Mati Labs

Dang (LinkedIn) is a former Asia investment researcher, Uber data scientist, an experienced entrepreneur, and YC alum.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Mati Labs helps financial institutions transform and grow by enabling AI adoption with robust data foundations, ensuring security and compliance, and fostering knowledge-based innovation.


Sage Franch

CEO & Co-Founder, PromoComply

Franch (LinkedIn) has more than a decade of experience in artificial intelligence and business leadership, working with organizations of all sizes to drive business growth through digital transformation.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, PromoComply streamlines compliance for financial promotions, cutting down significantly on the time and cost of maintaining compliant marketing, so organizations build trust with consumers and regulators.

FinovateEurope 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 7

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateEurope in London on February 25. Register today using this link and save 20%.

AQ22

AQ22 is an agentic banking orchestration platform automating financial workflows, from credit assessment and compliance to investment management and debt collection, helping banks streamline decision-making.

Features

  • AI-driven automation: Streamlines credit, investment, and compliance.
  • Seamless integration: Connects with any banking system.
  • Agentic intelligence: Enhances financial decision making.

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and financial institutions.

Deriskly

Deriskly helps financial services firms improve customer experience, automate compliance, and enhance trust through better communication and complaint analysis with safe and explainable AI.

Features

  • Enhances customer experience by improving communication clarity
  • Automates compliance with regulatory and brand guidelines
  • Identifies complaint patterns to drive better product decisions

Who’s it for?

Banks, financial services firms, insurers, and fintech companies.

Homely

Homely is an end-to-end, AI-powered digital journey for first-time buyers, empowering them to realize the dream of home ownership.

Features

Homely offers a unique, hyper-personalized AI-powered journey to realize home ownership.

Who’s it for?

Retail banks, businesses offering Homely to their employees, and individuals.

Neural Defend

Neural Defend is an AI-agentic deepfake detection startup founded by MIT researchers combating the $10.5 trillion global financial fraud problem with their patent pending algorithm.

Features

  • Delivers AI Agentic deepfake detection
  • Offers a multi-modal solution with audio, video, image, and expression detection
  • Provides real-time detection

Who’s it for?

Digital banks, fintechs, EKYC, verification companies, onboarding companies, insurance companies, media channels, dating companies, and government agencies.

Tweezr

Tweezr is an AI-powered surgical code assistant that pinpoints where developers should make changes across millions of lines of legacy code without breaking critical functionality.

Features

  • Delivers faster time-to-market for changes in legacy systems
  • Produces higher developer productivity in legacy environments
  • Obviates the need to launch the next ~$1B modernization program

Who’s it for?

Any financial institution with a complex legacy IT estate.