Duna

Cool to see Duna named in Sifted's AI 100! The list highlights Europe's most promising AI companies. Excited to be featured alongside CuspAI, Cradle, Taktile and Monumental. On a personal note: I actually think the most promising thing about Duna isn't AI, but the quality of our team. This is the single topic I'm most proud of and motivated by - because we believe a business becomes the people it hires. As we ambitiously scale, we're hiring on all fronts. Open roles include Marketing, Content, Frontend, Backend, Design, Deployment, and many more. Check out duna.com/careers :)

"Five different tools," responded the Chief Compliance Officer when we asked what her team uses to onboard a single customer. "It massively slows us down. We lose hours switching between KYC providers, document tools, CRMs, Slack, and email. Each switch delays decisions and increases room for error." This doesn't have to be the reality. At Duna, we believe the solution isn't adding more tools - it's consolidating into one platform where teams manage documents, send messages, leave comments, and sync with their CRM in a single workflow. The result? Compliance teams using Duna improve efficiency by 4.6x on average. Many compliance teams already work incredibly hard - Duna helps them work smarter, not harder. #compliance #efficiency #regtech #KYC #KYB #OS

The global economy moves faster than ever, but the infrastructure of trust hasn't kept up. This creates what we call the "trust gap" - and it's affecting every regulated business. The problem is threefold: 1️⃣ Revenue impact: manual verification and slow onboarding decrease conversion and drive customers away. 2️⃣ Cost explosion: compliance teams scale with headcount, not technology. Manual processes eat into margins as business volume grows. 3️⃣ Risk exposure: fragmented data and manual processes create compliance gaps that lead to regulatory exposure, especially when moving into new markets. The result? Companies face an impossible choice between growth and compliance. At Duna, we believe this trade-off doesn't have to be the case. Business onboarding with instant compliance eliminates risk, accelerates revenues and lowers cost. Because modern businesses need ‘trust infrastructure’ that scales with revenue, not headcount. #compliance #fintech #growth #kyc #kyb #trust #regtech

In today's financial technology landscape, compliance is more than a regulatory necessity: it’s a critical component of any customer experience. At the same time, even the most advanced fintech companies struggle to find a balance - between a great onboarding experience and quickly changing regulatory requirements. Many businesses we talk to have tried to solve these problems with temporary fixes and headcount. As Plaid's GM EMEA Zak Lambert explains: ‘Historically, business identity verification was manual and resource-intensive. Teams ended up spending too much time managing compliance instead of focusing on growth’. That’s why Plaid chose Duna. In Zak’s words: ‘We’ve transformed onboarding into a revenue driver thanks to Duna’s intuitive onboarding flows and enterprise-grade UX’. Learn more at Duna.com #compliance #fintech #aml #KYC #innovation

Legacy compliance software forces you into rigid workflows - requiring companies to adapt their compliance policies to an external system. This poses a challenge: Compliance policies and rules pile up over years - often without clear oversight of how they interact or why they still exist. As a result, it often becomes a months-long project to test policy changes and measure its impact on fraud, efficiency and conversion. There is a different way: ‘Duna's platform works the other way around.’ - Araba E., MLRO at Plaid. Duna’s policy and risk engine sits at the head of our platform and drives decision-making across the entire product suite - from onboarding, to case management, to perpetual KYC and period reviews. Instead of adapting compliance policies to an external system, it works the other way around, translating regulatory requirements into executable code. This allows companies to update risk settings in seconds, back-test policies retrospectively, and roll out changes without development cycles. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/dHBzZNYA #compliancetech #policyengine #riskmanagement #regtech #enterprise

For many companies, compliance is a checkbox. But when you’re serving customers in multiple markets - compliance becomes mission-critical infrastructure. Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe and investor in Duna, talks about this with our founder Duco van Lanschot: At Stripe, Claire helped expand into 50+ countries - onboarding millions of businesses across some of the world’s most complex regulatory environments. What worked in one region often broke in another. ‘We weren't just entering new countries. We were landing on a different planet.’ Stripe ended up investing tens of millions in building systems that could adapt to evolving compliance requirements across jurisdictions. But investments of this magnitude aren’t for everyone - and that’s where Duna comes in. Listen to the full conversation with Claire Hughes Johnson: https://lnkd.in/e3565F5i

‘How can we accelerate European fintech?’ That's one of the questions our Founder Duco van Lanschot, Pennylane CEO Arthur Waller, and Vivid Money CEO Alexander Emeshev tackled at Bits & Pretzels. The answer was unanimous: Make Europe one market, with the same rules across 27 countries. Right now, scaling across Europe means navigating a maze: different incorporation requirements, regulatory licenses, employee equity rules, local IBAN mandates, employment tax frameworks, and KYB compliance. Remove these bottlenecks, the panel agreed, and European fintech would accelerate dramatically. But they also called it highly aspirational. Political alignment across all countries takes decades, and fragmentation remains a daily reality. At Duna, we help companies navigate one piece of this puzzle: business onboarding across regions — so you can scale without localizing compliance in every market. Thanks to Jessica Holzbach for moderating a great discussion! #fintech #compliance #europe #KYB #bitsandpretzels #regtech

Mews Founder Matthijs Welle and I celebrated that Duna will start powering Mews’ global business onboarding! Mews is one of the most successful Dutch tech companies 🦄 - an innovative hospitality management platform, powering over 12,500 hotels across 85+ countries. Running a global platform with many embedded finance opportunities, creates challenging compliance requirements. We will support Mews in avoiding conversion loss, decreasing manual work and staying compliant in every market. I’m really excited to partner with Matthijs and the incredible team at Mews. Thanks for the trust Patrick, Annacarla, Daniel, Mohammed, Maximilian, Richard! #compliance #kyc #tech #hospitality #regtech #aml

One company told us they spent over €20 million building compliance infrastructure in-house, and it still didn't do what they needed. Building compliance infrastructure in-house sounds logical - until you're dealing with excessive technical debt, constant regulatory updates, and an unscalable system. Suddenly, you're solving complex problems outside your core competency. Only a handful of companies can invest that much talent and resources into something that isn't their differentiated value proposition. As Ante Spittler, CEO of Moss, puts it: "Compliance is mission-critical, but not our core business. That's why we're working with Duna." Companies should leverage their best people on what matters most to their business. For almost everyone, that isn’t compliance. That’s why we built Duna - so our customers don’t have to. #compliance #infrastructure #buildvsbuy #enterprise #regtech

What if that business you onboarded twelve months ago now has sanctioned owners or active criminal charges? Many companies rely on onboarding processes that create a point-in-time snapshot. But businesses don’t stand still: ownership structures evolve, new subsidiaries are created, and legal representatives become PEPs or land on sanctions lists. The problem with this static approach is that quarterly reviews simply don’t account for these changes. Critical updates are missed, and the dynamic nature of business is overlooked. As a result, serious risks arise: outdated KYC, exposure to fraud, and the very real possibility that an onboarded customer is no longer who you thought they were. That’s why we’ve built Duna Lifecycle: to turn compliance from a static quarterly checkpoint into a continuous process. With daily screenings, teams no longer need to chase changes. Instead, they’re alerted to them. By automating change detection and risk flagging, teams can reallocate their time from manual reviews to high-value risk decisions while staying continuously compliant. Learn more about Duna Lifecycle: https://lnkd.in/e85MMFpN