FinovateFall 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

FinovateFall 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

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

FinovateFall 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 7

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

Conductiv

Conductiv helps lenders find more good loans, approve them faster, and grow portfolios safely using AI and permissioned data orchestration.

Features

  • Prevents fraud
  • Identifies charge offs before they happen
  • Finds new good loans hidden within existing loan applications

Who’s it for?

Banks and credit unions that make retail, SMB, and commercial loans.

Dimply

Dimply is an intuitive AI experience engine for builders in financial services to create, own, and evolve customer experiences, turning any data into personalized experiences, ready to embed instantly.

Features

  • Allow teams closest to customers to own the experience
  • Bring APIs in real-time to orchestrate data
  • Deliver personalized journeys inside existing apps and sites

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, insurers, pension providers, wealth managers, and other financial services providers.

ID-Pal

ID-Pal’s ID-Detect is an additional layer of verification applied to every submission that accurately detects the most common type of AI document fraud, like synthetic IDs and portrait swaps.

Features

  • Confirms presence of physical, real ID vs. deepfake
  • Detects AI-manipulated IDs instantly and removes risk of fraud
  • Delivers seamless onboarding of real users and reduces false-positives

Who’s it for?

Credit unions, community banks, payment providers, wealth management firms, fund admins, merchant acquirers, and financial service providers.

Kaaj AI

Kaaj AI agents turn messy small business loan packages into clear, holistic risk assessments in just three minutes, helping lenders close ten times more loans.

Features

  • Delivers an end-to-end small business loan assessment in three minutes
  • Provides holistic credit and fraud risk insights with ready-to-review credit memos
  • Offers AI agents for loan officers, sales, and credit teams that unlock ten times more loans

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and small business lenders.

Payfinia

Payfinia’s composable QR payment service, built with Matera, allows FIs to deliver secure, instant QR code payments across FedNow, RTP, ACH, and digital asset platforms.

Features

  • Delivers instant, secure bank-to-bank payments via QR codes
  • Works across FedNow, RTP, ACH, or digital assets
  • Ensures safe, real-time transactions with native fraud controls

Who’s it for?

Credit unions, community banks, digital banking platform providers, and fintechs.

Scamnetic

Scamnetic offers cutting-edge, globally patented AI solutions that detect, prevent, and stop scams in real time, protecting identities and communications everywhere.

Features

  • KnowScam 2.0: Provides real-time scam detection across multiple channels
  • IDEveryone™: Delivers instant identity verification to prevent impersonation
  • Enhanced AI: Uses deepfake detection with actionable insights

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, payment providers, fintechs, SMBs, and individuals.

Vertice AI

Vertice AI empowers community FIs with predictive analytics that transform data into actionable insights, driving smarter, measurable growth.

Features

  • Delivers AI-powered insights for precise customer targeting, boosting acquisition and cross-selling
  • Provides automated, personalized campaigns that maximize engagement
  • Offers scalable, compliant marketing content creation

Who’s it for?

Credit unions and community banks of all sizes.