Duna has raised €30 million in Series A funding to modernize compliance and onboarding workflows, drawing backing from fintech veterans and Stripe alumni.
European RegTech startup Duna, founded by former Stripe employees, has raised €30 million in Series A funding, as businesses struggle to manage increasingly complex regulatory obligations across borders.
The round attracted a mix of venture capital firms and senior fintech executives, including leaders from Stripe and Adyen, reflecting growing confidence that compliance is becoming a core layer of financial infrastructure rather than a back-office function.
Compliance as a scaling bottleneck
As fintech, marketplaces, and SaaS companies expand internationally, onboarding customers, partners, and vendors has become slower and riskier. Regulations vary by jurisdiction, documentation requirements change frequently, and manual processes remain common.
Duna positions itself as an infrastructure layer that automates:
- Know-your-customer (KYC) checks
- Business verification
- Ongoing compliance monitoring
The goal is to make regulatory workflows programmable and auditable.
Lessons from Stripe
The founders’ experience at Stripe heavily informs Duna’s approach. Stripe built developer-friendly payments infrastructure by abstracting complexity behind clean APIs.
Duna aims to do the same for compliance — an area many startups view as opaque, expensive, and reactive.
Investors say this perspective resonates as regulation tightens globally, particularly around financial crime, data protection, and platform accountability.
Why investors are paying attention
RegTech has historically struggled to attract enthusiasm compared to consumer fintech. But that perception is changing as compliance costs rise and enforcement intensifies.
Duna benefits from several tailwinds:
- Increasing cross-border commerce
- Regulatory harmonization efforts
- Demand for real-time auditability
By embedding compliance directly into workflows, companies can reduce risk without slowing growth.
A crowded but fragmented market
The compliance landscape remains fragmented, with many tools addressing narrow requirements. Duna’s strategy is to consolidate onboarding and verification into a single system.
This approach could appeal to scale-ups that have outgrown manual checks but lack the resources to build internal compliance teams.
From cost center to product advantage
One of Duna’s key arguments is that compliance, when handled well, can become a competitive advantage. Faster onboarding improves customer conversion, while better audit trails reduce legal exposure.
As regulators increasingly expect proactive controls rather than reactive fixes, companies are being pushed toward more sophisticated systems.
Use of funds and expansion plans
The €30 million raise will be used to:
- Expand engineering and product teams
- Deepen regulatory coverage across Europe
- Prepare for entry into additional global markets
Duna is also investing in integrations with financial institutions and platforms that need embedded compliance capabilities.
A signal of fintech’s next phase
The success of Duna’s Series A reflects a broader shift in fintech investment. After years focused on growth at all costs, attention is turning toward sustainability, governance, and trust.
Infrastructure startups that help companies operate responsibly at scale are increasingly attractive.
For Stripe alumni, Duna represents a familiar pattern: taking a painful internal problem and turning it into a standalone platform.
