FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 6

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

Accend

Accend is an AI-powered, human-in-the-loop platform that delivers accurate, same-day financial spreading and analysis.

Features

  • AI-driven financial spreading with human validation for 100% accuracy
  • Same-day turnaround across all formats and geographies
  • Built-in credit memo, ratio analysis, and benchmarking

Who’s it for?

Commercial banks, community banks, credit unions, B2B fintechs, etc.

Casca

With Casca, FDIC-insured banks and non-bank lenders fund small business loans in under seven days with 90% workflow automation, reduced costs, and thousands of hours in operational efforts reclaimed.

Features

  • Automates document collection, saving 20 hours per week
  • Reads 10,000 pages in five minutes
  • Provides instant pre-qualification
  • Accepts applications 24/7 (63% come in after business hours)

Who’s it for?

Banks, community banks, credit unions, and non-bank lenders.

CoHome

CoHome aims to simplify real estate investing through affordable, fractional ownership—giving more people chances to own and benefit from property investments.

Features

  • Turns student rent into equity through co-ownership
  • Unlocks passive income from high-demand college housing
  • Enables banks to tap into a $55B new market

Who’s it for?

Individual real estate investors.

Crosswise

Crosswise is pioneering the future of compliance and risk management. Their agentic AI platform enables companies to build compliance documents and workflows in minutes.

Features

  • Provides AI-powered workflows for quicker compliance, improved cost efficiency, and risk reduction
  • Offers real-time regulatory intelligence
  • Delivers agentic execution of complex compliance tasks across verticals

Who’s it for?

Banks and large fintech companies.

Instarails

Instarails empowers financial institutions and businesses with a proprietary payment network that delivers instant, compliant global transactions with built-in fraud protection.

Features

  • Delivers instant global payments via bank accounts, e-wallets, and cash payout
  • Utilizes a single API connection with no additional infrastructure needed
  • Provides a white-label solution with automated compliance and fraud checks

Who’s it for?

Financial institutions and businesses requiring efficient international B2B, B2C, and C2C payment capabilities.

Parcha

Global banks and fintechs use Parcha to automate KYC/B manual reviews, accelerating account opening, increasing efficiency, and reducing costs.

Features

  • Create, test, and deploy AI agents for compliance in minutes, not hours or weeks
  • Automate any compliance workflow in one platform
  • Integrate with existing account opening systems

Who’s it for?

Small-to-medium-sized banks, global fintechs, and payment platforms.

Meet 5 Companies Demoing at FinovateSpring That Promote Financial Literacy

Meet 5 Companies Demoing at FinovateSpring That Promote Financial Literacy

April is Financial Literacy Month. While we are all getting an education in trade policy these days, making sure we’re up to speed when it comes to financial wellness is just as important.

With that in mind—and with FinovateSpring less than one month away (May 7 – 9)—we wanted to highlight those demoing companies that have financial literacy and inclusion at the heart of their mission.


CoHome

Based in San Francisco and founded in 2025, CoHome offers a real estate co-ownership marketplace and management app that makes owning property more accessible for college students and their parents, reducing rent to zero.

How they support financial literacy: CoHome introduces parents to the concept of co-investing in student housing for their child.

Express Wages

Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Express Wages offers Earned Wage Access (EWA) services to enable employees to receive some or all of their wages as they earn them.

How Express Wages supports financial literacy: Express Wages features a Financial Literacy blog on its website with articles and guides on budget-making, saving for a first home, and strategies to pay back student loans.

Kaian

Los Angeles, California-based Kaian provides a billpay support system that ensures that credit union members never have to worry about missing a payment due to temporary cash flow issues. The company was founded in 2022.

How Kaian supports financial literacy: Kaian’s AI-powered assistance provides personalized, on-demand financial guidance, including insights on budgeting, saving, and long-term financial planning.

Penny Finance

Founded in 2020 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Penny Finance describes its mission as “closing the wealth gap.” The company offers an online financial planning engagement engine for credit unions and small banks.

How Penny Finance supports financial literacy: Penny Finance provides tailored education, resources, and perks to credit union members and customers of small banks.

Supermoney

Headquartered in Santa Ana, California and founded in 2013, SuperMoney offers a comprehensive financial services comparison website providing recommendations on products from personal loans and savings accounts to tax preparation firms and brokerages.

How SuperMoney supports financial literacy: SuperMoney offers financial tools and resources—as well as industry studies—to help individuals make better financial decisions.