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Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Inc. Names Middesk To Its 2025 Best Workplaces List
Business identity company honored for building a culture of ownership, innovation, and impact SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Middesk, the business identity platform trusted by hundreds of financial institutions, announced today that it has been named to Inc.'s 2025 Best Workplaces list, recognizing companies with exceptional cultures that drive innovation and performance. This year's list, featured on reflects a comprehensive measurement and evaluation of American companies that stand out amongst others in creating exceptional workplaces and company cultures. "We believe the best companies are built by teams that think like owners," said Kyle Mack, Middesk's co-founder and CEO. "At Middesk, that mindset drives how we hire, how we work, and how we grow. This recognition reflects the ambition, talent, and hustle that our team brings to solving hard problems, together." The award selection process, conducted by Quantum Workplace, included a rigorous employee survey assessing management effectiveness, workplace perks, professional development opportunities, and overall company culture. Company benefits were also independently audited to determine overall scores and rankings. "Inc.'s Best Workplaces program celebrates the exceptional organizations whose workplace cultures address their employees' welfare and needs in meaningful ways," says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. "As companies expand and adapt to changing economic forces, maintaining such a culture is no small feat. Yet these honorees have not only achieved it—they continue to elevate the employee experience through thoughtful benefits, engagement, and a deep commitment to their teams." To view the full list of winners, visit Middesk provides the critical data and infrastructure financial institutions and B2B platforms need to verify, onboard, and grow their business customer base. Its identity solutions are trusted by two of the nation's three largest banks, hundreds of regional banks and credit unions, and leading tech companies and marketplaces. Backed by $77 million from top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi Ventures, Middesk has rapidly scaled its impact across the financial services industry since the company's inception in 2019. The Inc. Best Workplaces award comes on the heels of other awards given to Middesk including Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Company award, Tearsheet's award for Best Data Product for Lenders, and Fintech Breakthrough's 2025 Business Innovation. For more information about Middesk and its innovative business identity solutions, visit About MiddeskMiddesk is a leading business identity platform modernizing business verification, risk evaluation, and compliance. Its fast and frictionless identity-as-a-service APIs address KYB, credit assessment, and tax registration services, updated in days rather than months. More than 500 customers in the fintech, banking, lending, marketplace, insurance, and payroll sectors trust Middesk to help them safely verify, underwrite, and grow their businesses with names that include Plaid, Bluevine, Rippling, and Novo. Middesk has been recognized as a top U.S. fintech by Forbes as one of its Fintech 50. For more information, visit About is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit Media Contact:Liang Zhao,Vansary for Middesk,LZ@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Middesk
FF News
06-05-2025
- Business
- FF News
Duna Raises €10.7m Seed Round From Index Ventures and Global Tech Leaders
Duna 's platform for compliant business identity helps large enterprises like Plaid, Bol, Moss, Sequra, and Brand New Day Bank to grow their customer base while adhering to increasing regulation like AMLD5/6, PSD2/3, DAC7, and DORA. Over time, Duna's product will evolve into a network for shareable business identity: making business identification as simple as two clicks. The product drives substantial business impact: within six months, onboarding conversion has gone up around 38% for enterprises. 'Business onboarding used to be a cost centre for Plaid. Now, it's a revenue driver thanks to Duna's intuitive onboarding flows, compliance automation, and high-end UX', said Zak Lambert , Plaid's VP EMEA. 'Identity remains one of the internet's largest unsolved problems,' says Duco van Lanschot , Duna's founder. 'In 1993, The New Yorker published an iconic cartoon featuring two dogs. One sits in front of a computer, saying to the other: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Ever since, little has changed. Identity remains tied to legacy systems resulting in billions lost to fraud, friction, and fines. We built Duna to fix that.' 'In a fast-moving AI landscape, we generate flawless images without a camera and draft legal arguments without a day in law school. Yet when it comes to business identity, we're still stuck in the era of spreadsheets. Duna helps businesses drive historically paper-heavy compliance analysis without requiring manual work', said David Schreiber , Duna's founder. 'We're building a future where businesses do have digital passports – so businesses can identify themselves instantly, securely, and universally.' Adyen co-founder and CEO Pieter van der Does is an official advisor to the company: 'There are many similarities between the level of complexity Duna set out to solve and what motivated us when starting Adyen', he said. Duna's seed round is led by Index Ventures.' Duna has an exceptional team with talent from the likes of Adyen, Stripe and Spotify,' commented Index Ventures Partner Jan Hammer . 'We're thrilled to partner with David and Duco as they not only re-imagine business onboarding but also pursue their vision to become the global identity network. We know they're poised to redefine an industry long overdue for change.' Alongside Index, Puzzle Ventures' Gloria Bauerlein participated in the round: 'I invest as much in an idea as in talent. It's been years since I've known David and Duco, and the question was never if, but when they would start an industry-defining company', she said. Next to Index and Puzzle, Duna is backed by an exceptional group of tech executives including Frank Slootman (Snowflake, former CEO), Mariette Swart (Adyen CRCO), David Singleton (Stripe former CTO), Akshay Kothari (founder Notion), Ethan Tandowsky (Adyen CFO), Alexandre Prot (founder Qonto), Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe COO), Adriaan Mol (founder Mollie), Frederick Reynolds (FIS CRCO ), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel COO), Job van der Voort (founder Remote), Jean-Charles Samuelian (founder Alan), Eléonore Crespo (founder Pigment), Stephanie Cohen (Goldman Sachs former CSO), Hanno Renner (founder Personio), Guillaume Princen (Anthropic VP EMEA), Matt Briers (Wis, former CFO), and Michael Cocoman (Stripe CCO). In addition, the Duna foundation holds one third of the company's shares: 'A non-profit is one of our largest owners because building something meaningful equals creating value for everyone: our customers, our team, our shareholders, and the world around us. As our business grows, so should our positive impact on the planet and its people. We believe the best companies serve more than just shareholders', said Schreiber and van Lanschot . Duna's founders David Schreiber and Duco van Lanschot were early Stripe-employees and held C-suite roles at Trade Republic Bank and identity company Fourthline. In these leadership roles, they experienced business identity is not an add-on, but needs dedicated infrastructure. Duna's team also draws experience of senior executives and engineers who previously scaled Spotify, Adyen, Stripe, and Airbnb.
Finextra
06-05-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Stripe alumni raise €10.7 million for business identity startup
Duna, a business identity startup founded by former Stripe staffers, has raised €10.7 million in a Seed funding round led by Index Ventures. 1 Duna's platform for compliant business identity has already been implemented by large enterprises like Plaid, Bol, Moss, Sequra, and Brand New Day Bank for adherence to increasing regulation like AMLD5/6, PSD2/3, DAC7, DORA and the Supply Chain Transparency Act. Duna's founders David Schreiber and Duco van Lanschot were early Stripe-employees and held C-suite roles at Trade Republic Bank and identity company Fourthline. Ultimately they aim to build Duna's product into a network for shareable business identity: making business identification as simple as two clicks. 'In a fast-moving AI landscape, we generate flawless images without a camera and draft legal arguments without a day in law school. Yet when it comes to business identity, we're still stuck in the era of spreadsheets. Duna helps businesses drive historically paper-heavy compliance analysis without requiring manual work', said David Schreiber, Duna's founder. 'We're building a future where businesses do have digital passports - so businesses can identify themselves instantly, securely, and universally." Clients who have implemented the Duna platform have reported an avergae uplift of 38% in onboarding conversions within six months of going live. Zak Lambert, Plaid's VP Emea states: 'Business onboarding used to be a cost center for Plaid. Now, it's a revenue driver thanks to Duna's intuitive onboarding flows, compliance automation, and high-end UX.'
