Niklas Tawast

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Niklas is an investor at Salesforce Ventures covering Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, with a focus on AI infrastructure, semiconductors, cybersecurity, robotics, space, and vertical applications.

Before joining Salesforce Ventures, Niklas invested in pre-seed and seed-stage startups at a Japanese venture capital firm. Prior to that, he was a consultant at Intralink, helping North American and European scale-ups and venture capital firms expand into Japan.

Originally from Helsinki, Finland, Niklas holds a BBA from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and an MSc in Finance from the University of Aberdeen, and is currently pursuing an MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris.