FinovateEurope 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

FinovateEurope 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

The votes are in and the people have spoken! After a full day of live fintech demos from companies representing 13 countries, the attendees of FinovateEurope 2025 have made their decision as to which of this year’s 30+ demoing companies will take home a Best of Show trophy.

With no further ado, here are this year’s winners.

Keyless for its technology that replaces traditional multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods with automated biometric authentication, improving the user experience while cutting costs.

R34DY for its solution that helps organizations transform their business by taking the pain out of integrations and making it easy for business owners to create use cases and reduce time to market.

Tweezr for its technology that helps organizations transform and grow by accelerating time-to-market and increasing developer productivity for both legacy system maintenance and modernization (or even obviating modernization all together).

A heartfelt thanks to all the demoing companies, sponsors, speakers, and attendees for making FinovateEurope 2025 an exciting, impactful event. Be sure to keep in touch with us on the Finovate blog as these and the rest of our demoing companies continue to innovate and solve problems for banks, financial services providers, fintechs, and their customers.

Our next conference is FinovateSpring, which will be making its San Diego debut on May 7-9. We can’t wait to bring Finovate to California’s second-most populous city and 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 three 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 2024 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 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.