Congratulations to the six companies that won Best of Show at FinovateFall 2025 this week!

This year’s roster of FinovateFall Best of Show winners includes proven veterans that have earned Best of Show awards from Finovate audiences in the past, as well as companies new to Finovate who impressed our attendees with their live demonstrations of problem-solving innovations in fields ranging from digital banking and wealth management to financial education and AI-enabled data management.

Please join us in congratulating all of the companies that demoed their latest fintech innovations at FinovateFall this week. And with that, meet the winners of Best of Show for FinovateFall 2025!

Casap for its technology that helps financial institutions and fintechs lower operational costs and lift, curb fraud-related losses, accelerate resolution times, and strengthen customer relationships at scale.

Eko for its solution that enables clients to increase logins into digital banking by 4x and bank deposits by 11%, while reducing the likelihood of customers leaving their financial institution by 6x.

Krida for its technology that reduces cycle times, manual tasks, and borrower drop-off, giving banks a faster path to funded loans, higher throughput, and stronger community relationships.

LemonadeLXP for its InsightAI that improves staff and customer education and access to knowledge while driving significant operational efficiencies.

LendAPI for its cross-organizational collaboration tool where CTOs, CROs, and CCOs can all build an enterprise platform together.

Vertice AI for its innovation that leverages AI to translate data into personalized product and service recommendations, helping teams boost engagement, acquisition, and retention through smarter, hyper-targeted outreach.

We’d like to thank everyone who made FinovateFall 2025 such a great success: our sponsors, speakers and delegates who continue to make Finovate conferences must-attend events on the fintech calendar.

The next stop on the Finovate tour is sunny San Diego for FinovateSpring 2026. We look forward to seeing you there!

Notes on methodology:

1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.

2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.

3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”

4. The six companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”

5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2025 conferences are below:

FinovateEurope 2015

FinovateSpring 2015

FinovateFall 2015

FinovateEurope 2016

FinovateSpring 2016

FinovateFall 2016

FinovateAsia 2016

FinovateEurope 2017

FinovateSpring 2017

FinovateFall 2017

FinovateAsia 2017

FinovateMiddleEast 2018

FinovateEurope 2018

FinovateSpring 2018

FinovateFall 2018

FinovateAsia 2018

FinovateAfrica 2018

FinovateEurope 2019

FinovateSpring 2019

FinovateFall 2019

FinovateAsia 2019

FinovateMiddleEast 2019

FinovateEurope 2020

FinovateFall 2020

FinovateWest 2020

FinovateEurope 2021

FinovateSpring 2021

FinovateFall 2021

FinovateEurope 2022

FinovateSpring 2022

FinovateFall 2022

FinovateEurope 2023

FinovateSpring 2023

FinovateFall 2023

FinovateEurope 2024

FinovateSpring 2024

FinovateFall 2024

FinovateEurope 2025

FinovateSpring 2025

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 8 – 10. Register today using this link and save 20%.

AirKey

AirKey, developed by Capital One, turns bank-issued cards into hardware tokens for authentication and identity verification.

Features

Customers who activate their card with AirKey experience up to 20% lower transaction fraud, report higher NPS scores, and more.

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and any credit or debit card issuer.

Anonybit

Anonybit delivers privacy-preserving biometric authentication for fintech and banking, securing all touchpoints including enabling AI agents to prevent account takeover, fraud, and scams.

Features

Provides built-in integrations to online banking platforms
Delivers seamless, privacy-preserving authentication at every touchpoint
Manages blocklists, self-service account recovery, and tokens

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, fintechs, payment providers, and enterprises.

Aurem

Aurem is an AI-powered operating system for retirement and wealth providers, unifying products, processes, and data to cut costs, simplify operations, adapt to regulation, and scale growth.

Features

Cuts costs
Eliminates inefficiency
Equips retirement and wealth providers with intelligence, automation, and adaptability to scale in a changing world

Who’s it for?

Banks, recordkeepers, and RIAs.

Casap

Casap’s AI-driven platform helps financial institutions and fintechs intelligently tackle the growing issue of first-party fraud and automate their disputes to improve operations.

Features

80% of dispute cases automated
85% reduction in processing time
40% decrease in customer contacts
51% reduction in write-offs/losses, improving NPS scores

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and fintechs.

Chimney

Chimney uses industry leading property data and award winning technology to generate real estate loans at lower costs with fewer staff required.

Features

Enriches existing systems, core, and CRM data with real-time property data
Automatically launches personalized, data-driven campaigns
Uses propensity modeling and scoring to predict borrowers

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, digital banking providers, and fintech partners serving homeowners.

Decisionly

Decisionly automates disputes for card issuers, using AI to drive scalable, compliant, and cost-effective dispute operations.

Features

Intelligent intake: Provides real-time validation at intake
Robust evaluation: Automates custom workflows to improve accuracy
Faster resolution: Improves cardholder experience and deadline compliance

Who’s it for?

Card issuers including banks, fintechs, and processors.

Krida

Krida is an AI intelligence layer for commercial banking, removing lending bottlenecks and delivering real-time insights that deepen relationships, boost revenue, and accelerate growth.

Features

Automates document collection, data extraction, and credit materials
Uses a self-serve borrower intake with instant feedback
Equips bankers with insights for faster, more confident lending decisions

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, venture lenders, and non-bank lenders.