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Stockholm based payment solutions company Klarna has received $225m in private equity funding from Permira, resulting in a $2.5b valuation. Klarna provides e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.
As part of the investment, a Klarna spokesperson has confirmed to us that two of its previous investors, DST and General Atlantic, have now completely exited the business. Sequoia and Atomico remain investors. Today’s investment follows another cash injection worth at least $225 million from Brightfolk, an investment firm tied to fashion retail magnate Anders Holch Povlsen, at the start of June. Later that same month, Visa also announced that it was making a strategic investment in Klarna, without revealing the size of the funding. Added up, this means that Klarna has raised somewhere in the region of $500 million in the last 7 weeks.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/21/klarna-permira/?ncid=mobilerecirc_recent
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