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Klarna
Fintech · Stockholm, Sweden · Founded 2005 · IPO 2025 Unicorn
Payments and commerce platform for consumers
Klarna mafia
Startups founded by Klarna alumni
Former Klarna employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Brian BillingsleyUnited States
Sven PerkmannSweden
Cameron BorrettGermany
Lorenzo liguoriItaly
Alistair CraneUnited Kingdom
Lukas EicherGermany
Nigel MorrisUnited Kingdom
Sean DonovanUnited States
Robin LantzSweden
Philip MikalSweden
Jane WalerudNetherlands
Robin WingårdhSwedenGlobal footprint
Where Klarna has talent and traffic
(138 of 4,613 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$5M patent portfolio · 13 active families
Where Klarna concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Klarna and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Klarna's 27 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Klarna appeared as a 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.
27 deals across Klarna's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Klarna's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Klarna
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Klarna on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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