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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.