Niklas Adalberth

Gustav Erik Niklas Adalberth (born 1981) is a Swedish entrepreneur and philanthropist, known as a co-founder of Klarna and the founder of Norrsken Foundation, a social impact organization founded in 2016.

Biography Adalberth was born and raised in Gottsunda Parish, Uppsala, Sweden.

During junior high school, he made money by forging identification cards and government coupons before he was discovered.

He was an exchange student in Connecticut for a year. In June 2019, Norrsken announced the opening of a second Norrsken House in Kigali, Rwanda, with the goal of becoming East Africa's largest hub for entrepreneurship. In June 2020, it was announced that the major banks Nordea and SEB as well as the EU, through the European Investment Fund EIF, chose to invest in Norrsken's venture capital fund Norrsken VC. Previous investors in Norrsken VC include the Swedish state's Saminvest and the H&M family Perssons Ramsbury Invest.