Niklas Adalberth is the COO and one of Klarna’s three founders. He started the company together with his two friends Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Victor Jacobsson while studying at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2005. Niklas has many years of experience from the IT and e-commerce sector. He has throughout the years recieved a lot of attention for his entrepreneurial activities.
The idea for the company was founded during a business idea competition hosted by the Stockholm School of Economics and its partners. Niklas and his friends managed to go to the final and pitched their idea in front of Sweden’s greatest investors and businessmen. They were rejected by them all and lost the final. But they kept their belief of one day becoming a great company and started Klarna (then Kreditor) anyway. Today, Klarna is one of Europe’s leading providers of payment solutions for e-commerce, with support from Sequioa Capital and Investment AB Öresund.
Niklas was together with Sebastian and Victor awarded “Ã…rets manliga stjärnskott” by Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year region Stockholm in 2009. In 2007, they were placed 27th as Swedens hottest super-talents by the Swedish business magazine “Veckans Affärer”.
