rewrite this title Finovate Podcast Interviews the Six FinovateFall Best of Show Winners – Finovate

This week we’re sharing six interviews from the Finovate Podcast featuring the companies that won Best of Show at FinovateFall last month.

From the latest innovations in the fight against fraud to leveraging AI to make it easier for small businesses to secure the financing they need to grow, FinovateFall 2025’s Best of Show winners help us see exactly where fintech is making the most impact for companies and communities.

In his most recent podcast interview, Greg Palmer talks with LemonadeLXP CEO John Findlay.

Findlay explains how the company evolved into a comprehensive all-in-one learning and knowledge platform for financial institutions. Findlay and Palmer discuss the shortcomings of traditional learning management systems that focus on compliance training rather than skill development that leads to business growth and more effective customer service.

EP 277: John Findlay, LemonadeLXP

Finovate Podcast host Greg Palmer catches up with Shivangi Khanna (CEO) and Sophie Jewsbury (COO) of Krida.

The three talk about how Krida leverages AI and workflow automation to transform the commercial lending process. Khanna and Jewsbury discuss the universal pain point of document collection and processing and explain how Krida’s technology automates the feedback loops between borrowers and loan officers to shorten the time between lead generation and a completed loan application.

EP 276: Shivangi Khanna and Sophie Jewsbury, Krida

Greg Palmer interviews Mart Vos, CEO of Eko Investments.

Palmer and Vos discuss how Eko makes it possible for early-stage investors to get started building their wealth through the credit union or bank they already know and trust. Vos explains how enabling financial institutions—especially smaller ones—to offer investment services can help them compete with third-party investing apps, many of which are embarking upon offering banking services of their own.

EP 275: Mart Vos, Eko Investments

Mitch Rutledge, CEO of Vertice AI, joins Greg Palmer on the Finovate Podcast.

In this conversation, Palmer and Rutledge talk about how Vertice AI enables smaller financial institutions to “punch above their weight” with AI-powered solutions that help them transform institutional data into actionable insights. Vertice AI helps community FIs deliver personalized customer engagement and measurable growth outcomes.

EP 274: Mitch Rutledge, Vertice AI

Greg Palmer chats with Tim Li, Co-founder and CEO of LendAPI.

Li explains how LendAPI serves as a “super orchestration platform” that enables users to build their own financial products via an intuitive browser interface. The platform includes a product studio in which FIs can build personal loans, mortgages, and other products with integrated rule studios, models studios, pricing engines, and third-party plugins.

EP 273: Tim Li, LendAPI

Finovate Podcast host Greg Palmer interviews Casap Co-founder and CEO Shanthi Shanmugam.

Palmer and Shanmugam talk about the challenges of first-party fraud and how this form of fraud—in which customers falsely claim they did not make purchases they actually did make—has become the leading fraud attack vector around the world, even more than account takeovers and scams. Shanmugam explains how Casap leverages AI agents that function like expert investigators to determine when disputes are legitimate.

EP 272: Shanthi Shanmugam, Casap

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