Final week, we showcased 5 firms—all led by feminine CEOs—who demonstrated their newest improvements at FinovateEurope in London in February. A part of Finovate’s annual Ladies’s Historical past Month commemoration, the put up not solely highlighted the achievements of girls in fintech, it additionally helped introduce 5 new firms to our Finovate viewers.
With that final level in thoughts, we’re thrilled this week to introduce you to among the ladies who might be main their firms on the Finovate stage subsequent month at FinovateSpring in San Diego, Could 7 by 9.
First, meet the 2 firms—Cinareo Options and Cratoflow—that had been chosen to take part at FinovateSpring as a part of our Feminine Founder Scholarship program. Second, we introduce two further firms—Penny Finance and Instarails—each with feminine CEOs, and each slated to demo their newest innovation at FinovateSpring subsequent month.
Karen Elliott
CEO & Co-Founder, Cinareo Options

Elliott (LinkedIn) is CEO and Co-Founding father of Cinareo Options, a SaaS platform that gives capability planning for brokers and assist workers, monetary administration, what-if state of affairs modelling, and multi-skilling simulation.
Based in 2022 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Cinareo Options units a brand new normal for workforce planning and resolution assist for multi-channel contact facilities. This supplies strong and pro-active useful resource planning and monetary evaluation to cost-efficiently handle entrance and back-office workers, in addition to all assist workers.
Shiv Patel
CEO and Founder, Cratoflow

Patel (LinkedIn) is CEO of Cratoflow, an organization that helps organizations to save lots of as much as 110 hours every week, scale back errors, and acclerate funds, enabling quicker decision-making and driving operational effectivity and price financial savings.
Primarily based in Anaheim, California, and based in 2021, Cratoflow gives a no-code monetary workflow resolution that centralizes and simplifies advanced each day accounting processeas with an intuitive consumer interface. The platform leverages machine studying and AI to sync with third-party monetary techniques to systematically full income, banking, and expense entries.
Yamini Sagar
Founder and CEO, Instarails

Sagar (LinkedIn) is founder and CEO of Instarails, a worldwide cost community infrastructure that helps credit score unions, neighborhood banks, and companies entice and retain extra purchasers whereas accelerating income progress,
Based in 2022 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Instarails leverages blockchain expertise to make direct, real-time, low cost, inclusive, and clear funds. Purchasers connect with Instarails’ community by way of SaaS API and ship transactions. These transactions are routed by Instarails’ community and recipients get funds immediately by their financial institution, e-wallet, or by way of money pickup.
Crissi Cole
Founder & CEO, Penny Finance

Cole (LinkedIn) is CEO and Founding father of Penny Finance, a web based monetary planning engagement engine that pulls, retains, and providers the digital technology of credit score unions and neighborhood banks by offering tailor-made schooling, sources, rewards, and providers to their members and prospects at giant.
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and based in 2020, Penny Finance connects the dots between a monetary establishment’s services and member and buyer wants, all whereas creating effectivity for his or her advertising and marketing organizations.
FinovateSpring 2025 kicks off Could 7 by 9 in San Diego, California. Go to our FinovateSpring hub right now to study extra about our rising speaker lineup, demoing firms, and easy methods to plan your go to to Finovate’s first convention in SoCal!