Amsterdam-based Duna, an identification FinTech based by two Stripe alumni, at present introduced a €30 Million Sequence A funding spherical to construct international belief infrastructure by offering a digital passport for each enterprise.
The spherical was led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s impartial development fund. Present buyers Index Ventures, Puzzle Ventures and Snowflake Chairman Frank Slootman additionally participated within the spherical. This newest fundraise brings Duna’s whole funding to greater than €40 million.
“Duna is addressing one of many web’s greatest unsolved issues: identification,” says Duna founder Duco van Lanschot. “Compliance and identification now devour as much as 10-20% of a financial institution’s whole prices. The costly and handbook legacy programs result in billions misplaced in fraud, friction, and fines, in addition to misplaced earnings from refusals of professional prospects. This makes it a great use case for AI automation.”
Throughout 2025–2026, EU-Startups has reported a gentle circulation of funding into the European digital identification and identity-adjacent FinTech sector, spanning biometric authentication, regulated identification verification and payment-linked identification companies.
Within the UK, OneID raised €19.1 million to scale its bank-verified digital identification providing, whereas London-based Yaspa secured simply over €10 million to develop fee and identification companies for regulated sectors comparable to on-line playing.
Earlier-stage rounds embrace Amsterdam-based Ver.iD, which raised €2 million to develop its digital identification verification SaaS in step with new EU regulation, and London-based Keyless, which introduced a €1.9 million spherical targeted on privacy-preserving biometric authentication. In adjoining functions, Latvian startup Handwave raised €3.6 million to develop palm-based biometric funds and identification know-how.
Collectively, these rounds symbolize roughly €36–37 million invested into the sector over the interval, excluding Duna itself.
In opposition to this backdrop, Duna’s €30 million Sequence A – following its €10.7 million Seed round reported by EU-Startups in 2025 – stands out as one of many bigger single raises within the European identification house, and notably one of many few targeted particularly on AI-native enterprise identification infrastructure.
The presence of one other Amsterdam-based identification firm, Ver.iD, underlines the Netherlands’ rising function on this section.
“The necessity for a safe enterprise identification has by no means been extra pressing: AI has many advantages, however it additionally permits an acceleration within the velocity and class of fraud. Duna will assist firms root out this fraud,” provides Duna founder David Schreiber. “We’re turning a decades-old compliance price middle right into a core income driver.”
The corporate was launched in 2023 by Duco Van Lanschot, who was head of Benelux and DACH at Stripe for 3 years, and David Schreiber, who spent six years at Stripe the place he ran the corporate’s largest international enterprise unit, together with the core card fee platform.
Duna’s mission is to construct international belief infrastructure by offering a digital passport for each enterprise. Over time, this can evolve right into a community for shareable identification and one-click onboarding.
Immediately Duna’s AI-native enterprise identification platform serves giant banks, FinTechs, platforms and monetary establishments. Clients embrace giant enterprises comparable to Plaid, CCV (Fiserv), Moss, Bol and SVEA financial institution, with firms allegedly reporting 10.6x quicker onboarding and 4.8x productiveness good points.
“Duna is constructing the web’s lacking ‘one click on’ identification community. Most new enterprise relationships begin with a painful, handbook, and time-consuming change of paperwork which quantity to an enormous hidden tax on the B2B financial system,” stated Alex Nichols, CapitalG Common Associate and longtime investor in fintech chief Stripe. “Duco and David are the proper founders to resolve enterprise identification for the web. As former leaders at Stripe, they possess not solely deep founder-market match but additionally the management abilities to construct a high-ownership, talent-dense tradition to realize such an bold imaginative and prescient.”
Over time, Duna’s goal is for his or her digital passport to evolve right into a community for shareable identification and one-click onboarding.
“We’ve got seen robust traction with main enterprise prospects,” continues Duco. “The funding will likely be used to additional develop our enterprise capabilities with compliant, auditable AI, whereas sustaining the excessive regulatory requirements required by banks and huge enterprises.”
