#57 Andrew White – Intro to Regulation Technology (RegTech) and a Master Class in Company Bootstrapping

The Wall Street Lab

Andrew White is the founder and CEO of fundapps, a regulatory technology company founded 10 years ago. He completely bootstrapped fundapps and grew it from a small startup to over 60 people and 9 trillion USD in monitored client assets. The company provides Shareholder Disclosure software to Hedge Funds and other asset owners. Before founding fundapps, Andrew was a managing director at aquin components, a company that was acquired by State Street.

We start off our conversation by Andrew walking us through the space of regtech, giving us a history of the space, and how the regulation technology industry changed over the years. We talk about the difficulties to adhere to all regulations globally as a Hedge Fund or Asset Owner.

We then take an unforeseen and interesting turn and Andrew gives us a masterclass in the art of Bootstrapping a startup. This part starts at about minute 30.