Curinos brings industry expertise and unparalleled industry data to support fintech innovation
Curinos, a global data intelligence business that combines industry-exclusive expertise, insights, and analytics to help leading financial institutions grow their businesses, announced today a new partnership with CoMotion, UW’s collaborative innovation hub, to relaunch our fintech incubator.
The Curinos FinTech Incubator, located in Startup Hall, will focus on various sub-verticals within the financial industry, including predictive decision-making, AI-driven process automation, data analytics, deposit and lending pricing, experience personalization, bank resource allocation, decision support, balance sheet management, and digital banking and lending.
Through this partnership, Curinos will provide members with the following benefits:
- Mentorship with respected experts in the banking industry across all major domains
- Licensing opportunities for Curinos’ data assets
- Access to Curinos’ fintech expertise in business, product, data, artificial intelligence/machine learning and software development
“No other incubator matches CoMotion’s track record of launching groundbreaking fintech companies nationwide,” said Olly Downs, chief technology and AI officer. “We’re committed to partnering with the most driven entrepreneurs who will reshape the future of finance.”
Curinos has repeatedly been first to go-to-market with key industry solutions over the past two decades, establishing the only set of market-proven, simulation-based optimization tools in the industry, and extensive industry data assets. With its unparalleled data and proprietary resources, the company is actively fueling a new surge of fintech innovation. Downs himself is a pioneering entrepreneur in AI/ML and a long-standing fixture in the Seattle startup scene.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Curinos to relaunch the FinTech Incubator at CoMotion Labs,” said François Baneyx, director of CoMotion and UW Vice Provost for Innovation. “This collaboration is in perfect alignment with our mission to support innovators of all stripes by providing them with the resources, expertise, and connections they most need to succeed. With Curinos’ industry insights as a unique advantage, extraordinary strengths in AI, and a vibrant startup ecosystem that fosters creative collisions, the re-imagined FinTech Incubator has potential for transforming the industry.”
The incubator was initially launched in 2018 and operated until 2023 in partnership with BECU, selecting up to four cohort members each year and ultimately supporting 18 companies that have collectively raised over $140 million in venture capital, including Noonum, Routable, Finclusive, and Attunely.