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Thomas Bunnik: the Pritle exit | BNR
Making investing accessible. Acquired by BinckBank for €12.5M in 2017.
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Whoppah’s mission
Giving great design a second life. Building a European marketplace for secondhand designer furniture, interiors and art.
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Innovation at Whoppah | CIO & CDO
Technology and the vision behind Whoppah.
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A sustainable future with Whoppah
Giving great design a second life. Building a European marketplace for secondhand designer furniture, interiors and art.
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Secondhand design in Europe
Giving great design a second life. Building a European marketplace for secondhand designer furniture, interiors and art.
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The Whoppah story
Giving great design a second life. Building a European marketplace for secondhand designer furniture, interiors and art.
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The vision behind Pritle
Making investing accessible. Acquired by BinckBank for €12.5M in 2017.
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Conversations about building companies, fintech, circular design and the decisions behind them.
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All articlesMarch 2026
From ABN AMRO Bank to €12.5 Million: How I Built and Sold Pritle
It started on a hop-on hop-off bus in New York. Not the company itself, but the conviction. The man sitting next to me turned out to be a recently exited entrepreneur. I told him what I was building. He leaned in. And something clicked inside me that I hadn't felt in years at ABN AMRO.
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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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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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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).