Finovate’s celebration of Women’s History Month continues!
This year FinovateSpring 2026 will feature a dozen female fintech founders and co-founders in its demo company line-up. Today, as part of our commemoration of Women’s History Month, we are excited to showcase these innovators, whose solutions are helping banks, credit unions, and lenders bring new financial products and services to their customers and members.
“I’m thrilled to welcome these incredible female founders to FinovateSpring,” Finovate VP and Director of Demos Heather Stowell said. “Their innovative technologies and groundbreaking ideas are a testament to the transformative power of diversity in fintech. It has been inspiring to seek out and encourage these companies to apply to demo, and I can’t wait to see their vision come to life on stage.”
Meenakshy Iyer, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, ContexQ
ContexQ is forensic Graph AI that detects fraud, money laundering, and hidden beneficial ownership by seeing the relationships every other AI misses. Headquartered in Singapore, ContexQ was founded in 2024.
Simmi Sen, Co-Founder, Crebit Pay
Crebit Pay is a stablecoin-powered FX platform enabling low-cost, near-instant global payments for students, while helping credit unions onboard and serve international members. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Crebit Pay was founded in 2025.
Anna Joo Fee, Founder and CEO, Goodfin
Goodfin expands access to institutional-grade investing opportunities. Its platform opens doors to private equity, venture capital, pre-IPO deals, and alternative asset classes that are typically reserved for large institutions or ultra-high-net-worth clients. Headquartered in San Francisco, Goodfin was founded in 2022.
Kelly Waltrich, Founder and CEO, Intention.ly
Intention.ly’s Advisor Brand Builder delivers a completely differentiated brand, website, and content engine in days, helping advisors attract ideal clients and outpace competitors. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Intention.ly was founded in 2021.
Alisha Chowdhury, Founder, Kiro Money
Kiro Money helps financial institutions grow deposits and product adoption by embedding intent-aware guidance that converts user uncertainty into action inside their platforms. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kiro Money was founded in 2024.
Zarina Tsomaeva, Founder and CEO, Loquat
Loquat enables banks and credit unions to scale faster by digitizing onboarding, cutting review times by 80% and unlocking new deposit growth. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Loquat was founded in 2018.
Annabelle Lin, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Nextvestment
Nextvestment enables safe self-service exploration while guiding advisors to intervene at the right moments, improving client engagement and advisor productivity without changing advisory models. Headquartered in Singapore, Nextvestment was founded in 2024.
Lisa Pent, Founder and CEO, PentEdge
PentEdge‘s AIMS gives community banks and examiner-ready AI governance platform—purpose-built for the $500 million to $100 billion institution navigating today’s federal AI risk guidance. Headquartered in North Creek, New York, PentEdge was founded in 2025.
Kathleen Craig, Founder and CEO, Plinqit
Business HYS by Plinqit levels the playing field for banks looking for much-needed deposit growth and for SMBs looking to do more with their cash. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Plinqit was founded in 2015.
Riya Jagetia, Co-Founder and CEO, Socratix AI
Socratix AI helps financial institutions cut fraud losses, reduce false positives, and scale operations without adding headcount—driving efficiency, trust, and stronger customer relationships. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Socratix AI was founded in 2025.
Ashley Parekh, Co-Founder and CEO, Syntex
Syntex is digital onboarding software for banks that verifies documents, tracks approvals, and reduces small business onboarding from weeks to days. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Syntex was founded in 2025.
Caitlyn Truong, Co-Founder and CEO, Zengines
Zengines modernizes off mainframes without losing critical logic, satisfying auditors faster, and making legacy systems searchable so transformation and compliance don’t stall. Headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, Zengines was founded in 2020.
Catch these and many more innovative fintech founders and CEOs this year at FinovateSpring 2026 in San Diego, May 5 through May 7! Tickets are on sale now. Save your spot. Book your room. And bring your sunscreen!
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