FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 1

FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 1

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Diego on May 7 – 9. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Cinareo Solutions

Cinareo is a SaaS solution designed for scenario-based capacity planning for both agents and support staff at a contact center, including financial analysis and recruitment and training planning.

Features

  • 50% time savings for workforce planners adopting cloud-based planning
  • 20% cost reduction while keeping high service levels and productivity
  • 25% improvement in service efficiency and customer satisfaction

Who’s it for?

Any financial institution with a contact center that has over 100 seats.

Covet

Covet transforms estate organization by consolidating financial, physical, and digital assets into a real-time estate summary—unlocking insights for advisors and financial institutions.

Features

  • Provides complete estate visibility across financial, physical, and digital assets
  • Automates estate documents that are generated and updated seamlessly
  • Delivers scalable, automated updates for assets and family changes

Who’s it for?

Financial advisors, wealth management firms, family offices, credit unions, investors, and individual clients seeking seamless estate organization, automated updates, and multigenerational insights.

Kaian

Kaian’s white-label solution helps banks and credit unions support customers and members.

Features

  • Supports bill payment challenges for customers and members
  • Rewards smart spending habits to improve financial behavior
  • Drives loyalty and increases lifetime value for banks and credit unions

Who’s it for?

Credit unions and community banks.

TAPP Engine

TAPP Engine bridges the gap between banking and wealth, helping financial institutions grow by embedding white-labeled investment solutions that enhance engagement, drive revenue, and strengthen loyalty.

Features

  • Delivers an intuitive design, educational resources, and accessibility
  • Provides access to self-directed, automated, and practice investing experiences
  • Offers institutional-grade connectivity with data-driven personalization

Who’s it for?

Credit unions, banks, fintechs, RIAs, independent broker dealers, and more.

Winnow

Winnow is an award-winning regulatory change management platform that allows customers to build customized state and federal compliance surveys.

Features

  • Pay-As-You-Go Surveys: Generate a-la-carte compliance surveys
  • Bills: View bills linked to relevant requirements and defined terms
  • Historical Surveys: Build compliance surveys based on a past date

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, fintechs, lenders, and law firms.

Showcasing Female Leadership in Fintech at FinovateSpring 2025

Showcasing Female Leadership in Fintech at FinovateSpring 2025

Last week, we showcased five companies—all led by female CEOs—who demonstrated their latest innovations at FinovateEurope in London in February. Part of Finovate’s annual Women’s History Month commemoration, the post not only highlighted the achievements of women in fintech, it also helped introduce five new companies to our Finovate audience.

With that last point in mind, we’re thrilled this week to introduce you to some of the women who will be leading their companies on the Finovate stage next month at FinovateSpring in San Diego, May 7 through 9.

First, meet the two companies—Cinareo Solutions and Cratoflow—that were selected to participate at FinovateSpring as part of our Female Founder Scholarship program. Second, we introduce two additional companies—Penny Finance and Instarails—both with female CEOs, and both slated to demo their latest innovation at FinovateSpring next month.


Karen Elliott

CEO & Co-Founder, Cinareo Solutions

Elliott (LinkedIn) is CEO and Co-Founder of Cinareo Solutions, a SaaS platform that provides capacity planning for agents and support staff, financial management, what-if scenario modelling, and multi-skilling simulation.

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Cinareo Solutions sets a new standard for workforce planning and decision support for multi-channel contact centers. This provides robust and pro-active resource planning and financial analysis to cost-efficiently manage front and back-office staff, as well as all support staff.


Shiv Patel

CEO and Founder, Cratoflow

Patel (LinkedIn) is CEO of Cratoflow, a company that helps organizations to save up to 110 hours a week, reduce errors, and acclerate payments, enabling faster decision-making and driving operational efficiency and cost savings.

Based in Anaheim, California, and founded in 2021, Cratoflow offers a no-code financial workflow solution that centralizes and simplifies complex daily accounting processeas with an intuitive user interface. The platform leverages machine learning and AI to sync with third-party financial systems to systematically complete revenue, banking, and expense entries.


Yamini Sagar

Founder and CEO, Instarails

Sagar (LinkedIn) is founder and CEO of Instarails, a global payment network infrastructure that helps credit unions, community banks, and businesses attract and retain more clients while accelerating revenue growth,

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Instarails leverages blockchain technology to make direct, real-time, cheap, inclusive, and transparent payments. Clients connect to Instarails’ network via SaaS API and send transactions. These transactions are routed through Instarails’ network and recipients get funds instantly through their bank, e-wallet, or via cash pickup.


Crissi Cole

Founder & CEO, Penny Finance

Cole (LinkedIn) is CEO and Founder of Penny Finance, an online financial planning engagement engine that attracts, retains, and services the digital generation of credit unions and community banks by providing tailored education, resources, rewards, and services to their members and customers at large.

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in 2020, Penny Finance connects the dots between a financial institution’s products and services and member and customer needs, all while creating efficiency for their marketing organizations.


FinovateSpring 2025 kicks off May 7 through 9 in San Diego, California. Visit our FinovateSpring hub today to learn more about our emerging speaker lineup, demoing companies, and how to plan your visit to Finovate’s first conference in SoCal!