Thomas Bunnik, Dutch serial entrepreneur and CEO of Whoppah, in Amsterdam

    Serial Entrepreneur · Investor

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    Thomas Bunnik is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building companies that change industries. His mission is to drive innovation and sustainable growth across Europe.

    €12.5M

    First Exit (Pritle)

    1M+

    Whoppah Users

    20+

    European Countries

    6

    Industry Awards

    Current focus

    What I’m building now

    Whoppah

    Whoppah

    Giving great design a second life. Building a European marketplace for secondhand designer furniture, interiors and art.

    1M+ / 20+ / €250M+

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    About Thomas

    Thomas Bunnik is a Dutch serial entrepreneur with a track record of building and scaling companies across fintech and sustainable marketplaces. From founding Pritle (acquired by BinckBank for €12.5M) to co-founding Whoppah, Europe's largest secondhand design marketplace.

    Life is what you make of it. My drive is to build businesses that create lasting impact, combining technology, sustainability, and great design.

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    What Drives Me

    Raise The Bar

    Serial Entrepreneur

    Founded and scaled multiple companies across fintech and sustainable marketplaces, including a successful exit to BinckBank.

    Sustainability Champion

    Building Europe's largest secondhand design marketplace, proving sustainability and profitability can coexist.

    Award-Winning Leader

    KPMG Emerging Giants winner, CIO Most Innovative Leader, and Dutch Tech Innovator Award recipient.

    From the founder’s notebook

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    March 2026

    The Quiet Revolution: How GenAI Made Us Better Founders

    There's a version of the AI story that gets told a lot. It's about automation, cost savings, and competitive moats. But the story I want to tell is more personal. It's about what happened when AI quietly absorbed a significant chunk of what used to consume our days.

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    18 October 2025

    Leadership Reflections

    My 25 values and most memorable lessons learned in relation to Management & Leadership following 8 years of ABN AMRO and 4 years of entrepreneurship.

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    Interviews & insights

    Pritle

    Thomas Bunnik: the Pritle exit | BNR

    Making investing accessible. Acquired by BinckBank for €12.5M in 2017.

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    nlgroeit · Coded

    Investor & mentor

    Alongside building companies, I’m active as an angel investor in early-stage companies and a mentor at nlgroeit. At Coded in Kuwait, I mentored 22 fintech startups.

    I concentrate my investments in five themes.

    BiotechMarketplacesFinTechAISpaceTech
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    Thomas Bunnik is a category-defining entrepreneur and CEO known for turning complex systemic challenges into high-growth digital realities. With a career rooted in the precision of high-level investment services, product management and development and the agility of disruptive technology, Thomas has consistently demonstrated an ability to scale innovation into hundreds of millions in enterprise value. His professional foundation was built during eight years at ABN AMRO Bank, where he was globally responsible for funds & ETFs product management and development and digital investment products distribution as well as the Secretary to the Global Product Approval Committee. He leveraged this corporate expertise to launch Pritle, a pioneering FinTech platform that he led to a successful acquisition by BinckBank. Most recently, as the founder of Whoppah, Thomas scaled the marketplace across 20 countries, managing a team of 100+ FTEs and raising over €25M in capital from leading investors. A specialist in M&A and Pan-European synergies, Thomas has navigated complex acquisitions for firms such as Fundix, Design Market, and Showroommodellen. His "Founder Thesis" is built on the intersection of data, AI, and intuitive UX to dominate large Total Addressable Markets (TAMs).
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    Life is what you make of it.

    — Thomas Bunnik