Kirk Lepke
Angel Investor @ EQT
London, United Kingdom
Kirk Lepke is a Series D investor at EQT in London focused on SaaS and Generative AI. Kirk A. Lepke is based out of London and is the partner of EQT Group. Kirk A. Lepke previously worked at Goldman Sachs as a managing director at GS Growth. Kirk A. Lepke attended Brown University.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 88%
Last updated:
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Industries Kirk Lepke invests in
Stages Kirk Lepke invests in
Countries Kirk Lepke invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (38%)
- Generative AI 3 (38%)
- Agentic AI 2 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
- CRM 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series D 4 (50%)
- Series C 2 (25%)
- Series E 1 (13%)
- Private Equity 1 (13%)
Country
- France 2 (25%)
- United States 2 (25%)
- Israel 1 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mistral AI develops artificial intelligence models, applications, and infrastructure for organizations and developers. Its product portfolio includes Vibe for autonomous work and coding, Studio for building and deploying AI applications, Forge for training and customizing models, and Compute for AI training and inference infrastructure. The company also provides frontier models, APIs, model customization, document intelligence, speech solutions, and applied AI services for business and public-sector use cases. Its deployment options include self-hosted environments, Mistral-hosted services, and integrations through cloud providers. Mistral AI supports applications such as enterprise knowledge search, data analysis, document synthesis, coding, agent orchestration, model evaluation, and domain-specific AI development. | $3.5B / Series D / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Mews is a cloud-native hospitality platform that provides property management, guest services, payments, and operations tools in a unified system. It helps hotels, hostels, and accommodation groups automate reservations, check-in/out, rate and inventory management, housekeeping, and embedded payment processing through a single dashboard. Theplatform also supports integrations with a wide range of third-party applications and open APIs to extend functionality and adapt to specific business needs. Mews emphasizes an intuitive interface and automation to reduce manual tasks and enable staff to focus on guest interactions and operational workflows. The system includes tools for revenue management, point of sale, event management, and analytics for decision support.Mews serves over 5000 properties across more than 85 countries in all five continents, and works with a huge number of hospitality tech companies to provide hoteliers with an unbeatable platform – no other PMS offers as many integrations. At the 2024 HotelTechAwards, Mews was voted Best PMS by industry peers. | $300M / Series D / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| ReliaQuest provides a SaaS security platform designed to minimize data loss and business disruptions. Its GreyMatter platform delivers visibility across SIEM, EDR, and multi-cloud environments to speed detection and response while maturing security investments to deliver security confidence.The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered inTampa, Florida. | $500M / Private Equity / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| Mews is a cloud-native hospitality platform that provides property management, guest services, payments, and operations tools in a unified system. It helps hotels, hostels, and accommodation groups automate reservations, check-in/out, rate and inventory management, housekeeping, and embedded payment processing through a single dashboard. Theplatform also supports integrations with a wide range of third-party applications and open APIs to extend functionality and adapt to specific business needs. Mews emphasizes an intuitive interface and automation to reduce manual tasks and enable staff to focus on guest interactions and operational workflows. The system includes tools for revenue management, point of sale, event management, and analytics for decision support.Mews serves over 5000 properties across more than 85 countries in all five continents, and works with a huge number of hospitality tech companies to provide hoteliers with an unbeatable platform – no other PMS offers as many integrations. At the 2024 HotelTechAwards, Mews was voted Best PMS by industry peers. | $185M / Series C / Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| Aircall provides a cloud-based voice platform that integrates with productivity and helpdesk tools that workplaces are already using to make phone support easy to manage. | $120M / Series D / Jun 23, 2021 | ||
| OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most. The OutSystems platform helps companies develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications by unifying and automating the entire software lifecycle. With OutSystems,organizations leverage generative AI to deliver software instantaneously, adapt faster to changing requirements, and reduce technical debt by building on a future-proof platform. Helping customers achieve their business goals by addressing key strategic initiatives, OutSystems delivers software up to 10x faster than traditional development. Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to tackle their impossible projects and turn their big ideas into software that moves their business, people, and the world forward. | $150M / Series E / Feb 17, 2021 | ||
| Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices. Lightricks integrates advanced technologies from computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing into mobile products. Lightricks' products include Facetune, Facetune 2, Enlight, Enlight Photofox, Enlight Videoleap, andEnlight Quickshot.Lightricks was founded in January 2013 by five entrepreneurs with comprehensive knowledge in the fields of computer graphics, image processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, who left promising careers in order to realize their dream. | $135M / Series C / Jul 31, 2019 | ||
| OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most. The OutSystems platform helps companies develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications by unifying and automating the entire software lifecycle. With OutSystems,organizations leverage generative AI to deliver software instantaneously, adapt faster to changing requirements, and reduce technical debt by building on a future-proof platform. Helping customers achieve their business goals by addressing key strategic initiatives, OutSystems delivers software up to 10x faster than traditional development. Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to tackle their impossible projects and turn their big ideas into software that moves their business, people, and the world forward. | $360M / Series D / Jun 05, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About EQT
EQT is a Swedish investment firm managing private capital funds and investments globally. They invest in companies and regions with an industrial approach. Their investment strategies include private capital, assets, credit, and public value, guided by an ownership approach and an industrial growth strategy.
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What does Kirk Lepke invest in?
Kirk Lepke invests primarily in SaaS, Generative AI and Agentic AI startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Kirk Lepke closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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