RedOwl wins top AI Innovation Award at the 2025 Finnies

RedOwl, an Australian Artificial Intelligence (AI) fintech, has been awarded Most Innovative Application of AI in Finance at the 2025 Finnies Awards. The award spotlights RedOwl’s rapid trajectory since its founding just 12 months ago by fintech entrepreneurs Jitto Arulampalam and Thushan Shanmugarajah.

RedOwl: Bringing pre-transactional compliance and control to the office of the CFO

RedOwl’s breakthrough lies in operationalising board-mandated compliance and control using artificial intelligence that delivers pre-transactional intelligence leveraging organisational memory, to the office of the CFO.

Where legacy finance tools are reactive and transactional, RedOwl’s AI agents intervene before money leaves the organisation, embedding control logic and learned precedent into everyday financial activity. These vertical agents evaluate whether each transaction aligns with policy, business rules, and transaction context — enabling real-time compliance.

At the infrastructure level, RedOwl’s patent-pending system introduces real-time AI-driven decisioning on payment rails, fundamentally shifting how financial governance is executed in the flow of funds.

“At RedOwl, we’re focused on solving long-standing C-Level and Board pain points with generative AI,” said Jitto Arulampalam, Co-Founder and CEO of RedOwl. “Being recognised at the Finnies Awards is validation that RedOwl’s AI is capable of delivering governance and control at an enterprise level.”

Mastercard Partnership Powers Scalable Rollout

RedOwl is an alumnus of Mastercard’s global Start Path accelerator, a strategic program designed to nurture high-impact startups shaping the future of payments. As part of this partnership, RedOwl’s platform is being prepared for rollout on the Mastercard network, enabling compliance and control to be extended all the way to the payment rails.