# Niklas Adalberth

> Niklas Adalberth is a Series A investor at Norrsken VC backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Norrsken VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norrsken-vc)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklasadalberth
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NiklasAdalberth
- Website: http://www.klarna.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niklas.adalberth

Niklas Adalberth is a Series A investor at Norrsken VC in Stockholm focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Niklas Adalberth is co-founder, Deputy CEO and board member of Klarna, the leading European payments company with investors such as Sequoia, Atomico, and General Atlantic. Niklas has a master’s degree in international business from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he founded Klarna together with his two co-founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski,CEO, and Victor Jacobsson. Klarna is used by 50,000 retailers and 35 million people across Europe and launched in the UK in July 2014. During 2015, consumers in the US will also start buying with Klarna.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $242k–$4M |
| Series A | $12M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 31% |
| FinTech | 3 | 23% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Payments | 2 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 15% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Grant | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 4 | 31% |
| South Africa | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Einride | Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order andtrack shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights. | $200M | Series C | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Klarna | Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $800M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 11, 2022 |  |
| ClimateView | Developer of a leading transition management platform for governments and public sector organizations to plan, finance, and execute large-scale decarbonization and resilience strategies. Trusted by 300+ cities and regions, the platform integrates emissions data, financial planning, policy design, and performance tracking into a unified operatinglayer. Built on IPCC-aligned methodologies and structured data architecture, it enables decision-makers to model transition pathways, stress-test investments, and connect political ambition with economic and energy system realities. By linking targets to budgets, capital flows, and measurable outcomes, the platform turns complex transition plans into finance-ready programs with comparable metrics across jurisdictions. | $11.6M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Einride | Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order andtrack shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights. | $110M | Series B | May 06, 2021 |  |
| Stitch | Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $4M | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Einride | Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order andtrack shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights. | $10M |  | Oct 01, 2020 |  |
| Founders Pledge | Founders Pledge is a global community of founders and investors committed to making the maximum possible impact on the social causes they're passionate about. Through Founders Pledge, members commit to donate a meaningful percentage of their personal exit proceeds to the charities and social causes of their choice following liquidity. Sincelaunching in 2015, Founders Pledge members have committed more than $2 billion to charity and donation $440 million. | $2.6M | Grant | Dec 27, 2019 |  |
| Einride | Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order andtrack shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights. | $25M | Series A | Oct 10, 2019 |  |
| Mollie | Mollie is a payments platform that offers an easy-to-implement process for integrating payments into a site or app.It is a technology-based company processing payments for more than 50.000 clients with local payment methods such as Mastercard, VISA, Amex, PayPal, iDEAL, Bancontact, Bitcoin, SEPA Direct Debit, Cartes Bancaires, ESP, Giropay,SOFORT Banking, and more. Mollie aims to make online payment simple for merchants by taking away the complexity from payment methods and offering a simple, but powerful API.Mollie has a strong focus on technology, innovation, and reliability. The company was founded in 2004 and based in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands. | $26.5M | Series A | Jul 02, 2019 |  |
| Klarna | Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $93M | Private Equity | Apr 08, 2019 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NordicNinja VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordicninja-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Northzone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northzone-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ericsson Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ericsson-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manhattan-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Norrsken VC

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

Norrsken VC is a Stockholm-based impact VC fund investing in start-ups solving the world's biggest problems while building massive businesses

5 contacts available at Norrsken VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Frykman | Founding General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-frykman |
| Tove Larsson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tove-larsson |
| Agate S. Freimane | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agate-s-freimane |
| Christoffer Nilsson | Venture Lead and Head of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoffer-nilsson-219b |
| Clara Lindh Bergendorff | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clara-lindh |

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## FAQ

### What does Niklas Adalberth invest in?

Niklas Adalberth invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Niklas Adalberth's check size?

Niklas Adalberth typically joins rounds of $242k–$4M at Seed and $12M–$27M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Niklas Adalberth participates in.

### When did Niklas Adalberth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Niklas Adalberth closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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