Niklas Lifors works as a Principal at Ares Management. The firm's known portfolio counts 18 companies.
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Principal at Ares Management, whose known portfolio counts 18 companies
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Investor Profile
Niklas Lifors is listed against sectors Climate, FinTech, Healthcare and Real Estate, and focus areas Clean Energy, Credit, Data Centers and Digital Health in the database.
Stage-wise, the deals at Ares Management cluster around Growth and Late-Stage rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Niklas Lifors is worth approaching.
Colleagues at Ares Management
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Nicolai Wadstrom
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Bennett Rosenthal
Co-Founder
Los Angeles, United States
Will Smalley
Partner - Infrastructure Secondaries
Dallas, United States
David Kaplan
Co-Founder
Los Angeles, United States
Lorenzo Donati
Vice President
San Francisco, United States
Michael Arougheti
Chief Executive Officer
New York, United States
Brian Lindenberg
Principal
Denver, United States
Keith Derman
Partner and Co-Head, Infrastructure Opportunities
New York, United States
Tom Gillis
Managing Director
Boston, United States
Benjamin Levy
Co-Head of Venture Capital
San Francisco, United States
Takahiro Hasunuma
VP of Investment
Tokyo, Japan
Shuichiro Choshi
Vice President, Venture Capital Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Bill DeMars
Managing Director
Chicago, United States
Fabio F.
Managing Director
San Francisco, United States
Alex Khein
Head of Systematic Credit
London, United Kingdom
Nate Walton
Head of Private Equity Secondaries
United States
Connor Neumann
Principal
New York, United States
David Kilpatrick
Managing Director
Boston, United States
Mark Mavroudis
Managing Director
San Francisco, United States
David Ells
Partner and Portfolio Manager, Alternative Credit
New York City, United States
Frequently asked questions
Who is Niklas Lifors?
Niklas Lifors is a private equity investor and venture debt investor based in London, England, United Kingdom, listed as Principal at Ares Management. The known portfolio of that firm counts 18 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Niklas Lifors personally.
What does Niklas Lifors invest in?
Listed sectors include Climate, FinTech, Healthcare and Real Estate; listed focus areas include Clean Energy, Credit, Data Centers and Digital Health. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Niklas Lifors invest at?
Ares Management appears in Growth and Late-Stage rounds across its known deals, and Niklas Lifors is listed there as Principal. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Niklas Lifors listed at?
Niklas Lifors is listed as Principal at Ares Management. 100 other people in the database share a firm with Niklas Lifors.
How do I contact Niklas Lifors?
A LinkedIn page is on file for Niklas Lifors. It is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The database holds no email address and no phone number for this profile.
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