Niklas Traub
MANAGING DIRECTOR, IID PARTNERS
Dr Niklas Traub is Managing Partner of IID Partners, an investment boutique with interests in biotech, oil exploration, software, semiconductors, media, music, digital content, and various other things. Niklas was a co-founder of Foundation Capital Strategies, a successful highly quantitative equity hedge fund based out of Bermuda. The founders spun off from Ross Capital Markets, at the time one of the largest hedge funds in the world. He was one of the founding hires at European Silicon Structures, an early pioneer in custom silicon chip manufacturing and one of the largest European startups of the era. Niklas has a Bachelors degree from the California Institute of Technology in Engineering and Applied Science with an emphasis on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Following graduation, he was one of the first wave of hires at Microsoft, then a tiny software company on one floor of a bank building in Bellevue. He left to pursue a PhD in mathematical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.