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Klarna

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Payments and commerce platform for consumers

Stockholm, SwedenFounded 2005Fintech
Valuation $4.52B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $4.42B Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2005
Headquarters
Stockholm, Sweden
Listing
IPO 2025
Sector
Fintech
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News ElevenLabs names ex-Adyen CFO Ethan Tandowsky as finance chief Sep 8, 2026 Analysis Founders from Europe have built $1.8T worth of unicorns abroad and $1.9T at home Sep 6, 2026 Analysis Europe’s first-time exits, 2024 to 2026 Sep 1, 2026 News Apple briefly touches $5T value, second ever after Nvidia Jul 28, 2026 News Klarna secures €900M facility to fund €5B German lending push Jul 9, 2026 Analysis The Klarna Mafia May 12, 2026

Investors

40 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed2 investors entered at this stage

  • Walerud Ventures
  • Filip Tysander

Series B and later38 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 4,638 incl. 138 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 30 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Klarna employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Basis TheoryEst. 2020
Colin LuceUnited States
Signal score93
ClooverEst. 2022
Cameron BorrettGermany
Signal score93
AnyfinEst. 2017
Mikael HussainSweden
Signal score92
SibillEst. 2021
Lorenzo liguoriItaly
Signal score91
NellyEst. 2021
RSRasmus SchultsGermany
Signal score89
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
52 countries with
team presence
🇸🇪 Sweden42.7%
🇩🇪 Germany21.9%
🇺🇸 United States8.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.2%
🇮🇹 Italy5.1%
Top 5 of 52 shown
Web traffic by country
77M monthly visits
across markets
🇩🇪 Germany29.5%
🇺🇸 United States21%
🇸🇪 Sweden9.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.7%
🇫🇷 France6%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$5M

13 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Klarna was the backer or acquirer, 2013–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

27 deals across Klarna's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where Klarna deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

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        Klarna's portfolio, mapped.

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        Period
        27 of 27 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Klarna on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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