OneStream’s Kunru Li ’25 won the third annual Babson FinTech Startup Pitch competition and took home $2,000 in cash prizes for her fintech idea.
OneStream is an integrated AI-powered platform that helps mid-sized banks improve end-user experience and transform their banking services. By seamlessly aggregating internal and external data in real-time, OneStream delivers actionable insights and personalized customer dashboards to support digital transformation.
The undergraduate duo of Arshia Tadipatri ’26 and Aryan Shanker ’26 placed second and won $1,500 for their idea called Finny, which is a unique “financial assistance robot” to help Stay on top of banking, brokerage, payment and credit needs in all areas. systems.
Valentina Schone MSF’25 and Ike Kanu MSF’25 placed third and won $1,000 for their idea, Bondly, a trading platform focused on creating fractional U.S. Treasury securities, allowing retail investors to purchase smaller and more affordable portions of bonds.
Hosted by the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investment and FinanceThe competition featured selected students from undergraduate and graduate financial technology courses taught by the assistant professor. Linghang Zeng. As part of their class projects, students worked together to create a fintech startup idea and analyze its prospects for success using course concepts.
A total of 21 groups presented their ideas in class, and the top five, voted on by their classmates, presented their startup ideas to a group of esteemed fintech professionals, including Jason Hoch, Deputy Director of Innovation Institute; Peter Gordon MBA’96, founder and managing partner, Atlantic Fintech Advisors; Benjamin Narasin ’87, founder and general partner, Tenacity Venture Capital; and John Reed Stark P’27, president of John Reed Stark Consulting. This year, the prizes were doubled thanks to a generous donation from judge Ben Narasin.
Published in Babson briefs