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Meet 5 Companies Demoing at FinovateSpring That Promote Financial Literacy

Meet 5 Companies Demoing at FinovateSpring That Promote Financial Literacy
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: CoHome, Express Wages, FinovateSpring 2025, Kaian, List series, Penny Finance, SuperMoney

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.

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FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 2

FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 2
By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: Bits of Stock, Express Wages, FinovateSpring 2025, FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek, Penny Finance, Solda.ai, SuperMoney

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

Bits of Stock

Bits of Stock empowers financial institutions to offer fractional stock rewards on everyday transactions and account activity.

Features

  • Auto-enrollment of digital banking users into investment accounts
  • Free-to-premium investing and rewards account structure
  • Stock roundups and recurring investments

Who’s it for?

Community banks and credit unions.

Express Wages

With Express Wages on-demand pay, employees receive some or all of their wages as they are earned.

Features

The Express Wages solution offers a simple, safe dashboard where users can see wages and view financial wellness.

Who’s it for?

Banks, employers, businesses, and credit unions.

Penny Finance

Penny Finance is an online financial planning engagement engine that attracts, retains, and serves the digital generation by helping them get out of debt, get into investing, and retire with wealth.

Features

  • Delivers custom financial plans for members within minutes
  • Drives 60% digital engagement and 30% product referrals
  • Scales seamlessly with expanding enterprise requirements

Who’s it for?

Credit unions, community banks, and small banks.

Solda.ai

Leading fintechs and banks use Solda.ai’s AI sales representatives to automate onboarding, upsell, KYC, and retention calls with <1% AI detection at 60% cost.

Features

  • Automates sales with top-performing AI trained across phone, text, email, and chat
  • Scales instantly with multi-lingual, on-brand engagement
  • Reduces costs by 40% with <1% AI-detection

Who’s it for?

Consumer and commercial fintechs, banks, payment providers, and other financial services companies.

SuperMoney

SuperMoney’s personal finance super app puts money on autopilot, using real-time credit and bank data to deliver intelligent, stress-free financial decisions.

Features

  • Keeps spending aligned with user goals with AI-powered budgeting
  • Delivers tailored financial insights to put money on autopilot
  • Automates finding better loans and credit cards with Refi Robot

Who’s it for?

All financial service providers.

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Showcasing Female Leadership in Fintech at FinovateSpring 2025

Showcasing Female Leadership in Fintech at FinovateSpring 2025
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Cinareo Solutions, Cratoflow, FinovateSpring 2025, Instarails, Penny Finance, Women in Fintech

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!

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