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Elizabeth Conn Knows a Wire Transfer Is Never Just a Number
At 20, she wired every penny she and her husband had into their first home. Now CertifID’s chief marketing officer is building the message, team, and customer experience around keeping that leap of faith safe.
A $180,000 Scam Nearly Sank Their Title Company. Then They Built the Wire-Fraud Firewall Real Estate Forgot.
CertifID turned its founders' worst closing into a business: software that checks the people and bank details, insurance that backs the answer, and a recovery team for the moment prevention fails.
Qualia Learned Closings in a Basement. Now It Wants to Run the Whole Room.
Three founders embedded with a title firm before they had a working product. A decade later, their software is taking on the harder job: moving a 118-year-old underwriter from legacy systems to one shared, AI-ready closing platform.
Andy White Put a Lock on the Most Nervous Click in Real Estate
A near-miss with a stolen down payment sent a computer engineer into title offices, trade-show aisles and the plumbing of American money movement. Nine years later, Andy White is still trying to make the most anxious moment in a home purchase feel ordinary.
Closinglock
Closinglock is an Austin-based fintech that helps title companies, real estate attorneys, and agents prevent wire fraud and modernize the closing process. Its platform moves wire instructions, payments, identity verification, document signing, and payoff retrieval out of insecure email and into a single secure portal. Founded in 2017 after a co-founder watched a client nearly lose their life savings to a phishing scam, Closinglock says it has protected more than 1 million home sales worth over $500 billion and raised $34M in Series B funding in January 2025.