Duco van Lanschot

Founder at Duna. 💜 complex tech, art, theater, ultrarunning, my mom, pianos.

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

@anuraggoel 😂🤣😂🤣

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs https://t.co/2qShqdVu2i

[Marcel van Oost @oost_marcel]

🚨𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝙒𝙀 𝙂𝙊! Duna, the Amsterdam based identity FinTech founded by two Stripe alumni, today announced a €30 Million Series A funding round.

The company, based in Germany and the Netherlands, was launched in 2023 by Duco van Lanschot, who was head of Benelux and DACH at Stripe for three years, and David Schreiber, who spent six years at Stripe where he ran the company’s largest global business unit, including the core card payment platform.

In May 2025, the company announced a €10.7m Seed Round led by Index Ventures.

The latest fundraise brings Duna’s total funding to more than €40m.

Duna’s mission is to build global trust infrastructure by providing a digital passport for every business.

Over time, this will evolve into a network for shareable identity and one-click onboarding.

Today Duna’s AI-native business identity platform serves large banks, fintechs, platforms and financial institutions.

Customers include large enterprises such as Plaid, CCV (Fiserv), Moss, Bol and SVEA bank, with companies reporting 10.6x faster onboarding and 4.8x productivity gains.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

CEO’s: Invest in design, or perish.

[Anthony Hobday @hobdaydesign]

Intercom started a trend when they used AI paintings as backgrounds for their website. I've seen this more and more (no criticism of the example screenshot). But I've never heard the logic behind the visual style. Anyone know/want to guess?

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

@hobdaydesign @_zoltanszalay + it simply looks beautiful. Design in B2B SaaS is often so ugly haha. We wanted to ship something that we love looking at ourselves.

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

@hobdaydesign Hi Anthony - Duco here, founder of Duna! Our name has a double meaning: ‘dune’ in Spanish (protection against bad actors) and ‘Danube’ in Eastern Europe (an enabler of commerce and trade). We love beauty and craft, so this is a visual representation of that. 💖

[Framer @framer]

Duna streamlines onboarding, automates work, and boosts revenue.
They needed a website that could grow with them and clearly communicate their value, without using in-house engineers.

[Aleks @aleksliving]

being a doctor and saving lives is cool, but imagine being a software designer and saving someone 2 clicks in an on-boarding flow. heroes.

[max seddon @maxseddon]

A blank space on today’s WSJ A1 where Evan Gershkovich’s reporting should be, one year after his arrest on patently false charges. Russia should free him now

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

Totaal irrelevant, maar waarom is het design van de 🐶-peiling een screenshot van een Excel (versie 2003) met conditional formatting?

Haha zo heerlijk kneuterig Nederlands.

Niemand denkt blijkbaar: laat de stagiair dit ff oppoetsen in een kwartiertje.

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

@ginnyranu Altijd exact zoveel uur dat het bedrag eindigt op €4999,99.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Headspace, the meditation app, was started it in 2010 by @andypuddicombe when he was 38

Before that he spent 10 years as a monk in Asia and 5 years building his own meditation studio in London

Only after 15 years of that he founded a startup at 38

He exited last year at age 50

Not that 38 is old but people here still think they're too old to do a startup or make a life change and it's never true

I've tweeted this so many times but average successful startup founder age is 45!

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

Na bijna drie jaar is dit m’n laatste column in de Quote:

Startups moeten hun morele en maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid nemen.

Het gaat namelijk samen: geld verdienen én een positieve impact.

Verantwoordelijke innovatie is de grootste kans van onze tijd.

[Michael McGuiness @mikemcg0]

Q: Why is it so important to get the first few hires of a startup right?

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison explains it really well in Startup School’s Hiring and Culture Lecture.

It’s critical to get the first 10 hires of a startup right because each of those people will hire or recruit another 10 people on average if your company is successful.

So instead of thinking of it as hiring 10 people, you should really treat it like you’re hiring 100 people.

The first ten employees will set the foundation for the culture and talent bar of the company.

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

@adriaanmol 🤣

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

It’s been 100 days since my friend WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich was wrongly detained in Russia. Together with journalists from @volkskrant @parool @trouw, as well as @MoscowTimes & @tvrain, I stand with Evan and his family. #IStandWithEvan

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

@JoostSnuverink @CPBnl @Quotenet in 75% van de gevallen waren direct vrije middelen beschikbaar... na een ruimhartige (10 jaar) betalingsregeling, hoeveel blijven er dan echt over die met torenhoge problemen zitten? Voor 1984 was het geen groot probleem, toen werd gewoon belasting betaald.

[Duco van Lanschot @lanschot]

In Nederland kun je praktisch 'gratis' een bedrijf erven. Wat dat onze maatschappij kost? Bijna een half miljard per jaar.

Volgens het @CPBnl is de regeling niet doelmatig. Toch houden politici er krampachtig aan vast.

Mijn voorstel in @Quotenet: afschaffen.