Meet the future of fintech: The 2026 Curinos FinTech Incubator cohort
This powerful program brings together startups tackling some of financial services’ biggest opportunities—from AI-powered productivity and embedded finance to financial inclusion and personalized guidance.
Selected from a competitive field, the 2026 cohort includes:
Addition Wealth
Addition Wealth combines technology and human expertise to deliver personalized financial guidance at scale for financial institution partners
JoinSusu
JoinSusu digitizes rotating savings circles for diaspora communities, with multi-currency support across four countries.
Centring
Centring is an AI platform that captures and operationalizes institutional knowledge within Microsoft 365 for advisory firms.
Slate
Slate is an embedded lending platform enabling Canadian SaaS platforms to offer white-labeled working capital to SMBs.
About the Curinos FinTech Incubator
The Curinos FinTech Incubator is a cohort-based program designed to help early-stage fintech startups accelerate growth, validate product-market fit, and bring data-driven solutions to market faster.
Re-launched in 2025 in partnership with CoMotion at the University of Washington, the incubator builds on a strong legacy. The incubator is located at CoMotion Labs in Startup Hall near the UW campus. Previously operated in partnership with BECU, the program supported 18 fintech startups between 2018 and 2023 that collectively raised more than $140M in venture capital.
Why Curinos + CoMotion
This program brings together a rare combination of strengths:
- Curinos provides proprietary financial services data, market insights, benchmarking tools, and deep expertise across banking, lending, pricing, and decision intelligence.
- CoMotion Labs offers a proven incubation model, founder-first support, startup infrastructure, and access to the University of Washington’s innovation ecosystem.
Together, we help founders move from promising ideas to production-ready solutions—grounded in real-world financial services challenges.
Participants will gain:
The selected startups will participate in a structured incubation program focused on growth, readiness, and impact, including:
Industry-Driven Mentorship
- Direct access to Curinos leaders and subject matter experts
- Guidance on product strategy, value proposition, and commercialization
- Insight into how financial institutions evaluate, buy, and deploy fintech solutions
Data, tools & technical enablement
- Access to Curinos’ exclusive market insights and benchmarking tools
- Support for building scalable, analytics-driven products
- Eligibility for the Databricks for Startups program, including:
- Up to $50,000 in service credits
- Technical support and training resources
Founder-focused incubation
- CoMotion Labs membership with coworking space
- Access to University of Washington resources
- Learning, mentorship, and networking opportunities with a vibrant startup community
Proof it works
The Curinos FinTech Incubator is designed to deliver real, hands-on value at critical stages of company growth.
The inaugural 2025 cohort demonstrated how AI, behavioral science, and alternative data can improve financial access, engagement, and decision-making. Founders worked directly with Curinos’ proprietary data assets, market insights, and industry experts—helping them refine product strategy, strengthen partner positioning, and accelerate progress toward market readiness.
What participants have said
“The Curinos FinTech Incubator helped us sharpen our product and partner strategies through a major inflection point in our growth. The combination of Curinos’ deep industry expertise and CoMotion’s founder-first support allowed us to move faster and think bigger about the impact we could have.”
- Reagan Bonlie, CEO of Nudge Money and a member of the 2025 cohort
Curinos FinTech Incubator 2025 cohort
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