Ritesh Singhania

Ritesh Singhania is a London-based entrepreneur who has spent nearly a decade building compliance and regulatory technology products for financial services firms in the UK and Europe. He studied at the University of Oxford, where he completed an MBA, before carving out a career at the intersection of financial regulation and technology. Early in his career he served as Head of Product at Cinnober, the Swedish trading infrastructure company acquired by Nasdaq, gaining deep exposure to the operational requirements of capital market infrastructure firms.

Singhania went on to co-found ClearGlass Analytics, a UK-based RegTech platform backed by global insurer Aon, which focused on regulatory transparency for asset managers and pension funds. The experience of building ClearGlass gave him direct insight into the persistent gap in the compliance market: even firms with good software continued to rely heavily on consultants, because software alone could not accurately interpret complex, jurisdiction-specific regulations and provide the level of assurance that financial institutions required. That insight became the founding thesis for Zango.

In 2024, Singhania co-founded Zango with Shashank Agarwal to build an AI-native platform that addresses regulatory compliance for financial institutions from first principles. As Co-Founder and CEO, he leads the company's strategy, client relationships, and its London operations. Zango's platform combines regulation-specific AI agents with embedded human compliance experts, enabling banks, fintechs, insurers, and asset managers to conduct continuous horizon scanning, gap analysis, and marketing compliance reviews without consultants or manual processes.

Zango raised $4.8 million in seed funding in July 2025, led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from South Park Commons, Notion Capital, and senior financial services practitioners. Early clients include Novobanco, Monzo, and Juni. The company operates from offices in London, San Francisco, and Bengaluru, with the India engineering centre central to its AI development capability.