Kirk A. Lepke
Executive Director, GS Growth @ Goldman Sachs
London, United Kingdom
Kirk A. Lepke is an Executive Director, GS Growth at Goldman Sachs. He was a member of the firm's investment activities in Europe. Prior to Summit, Kirk worked for Torch Partners and Morgan Keegan Technology Group. He received a BA in commerce, organizations and entrepreneurship, magna cum laude, from Brown University.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 86%
Last updated:
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Industries Kirk A. Lepke invests in
Stages Kirk A. Lepke invests in
Countries Kirk A. Lepke invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (43%)
- Generative AI 2 (29%)
- CRM 1 (14%)
- PaaS 1 (14%)
- VoIP 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series D 3 (43%)
- Series C 2 (29%)
- Series E 1 (14%)
- Private Equity 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 2 (29%)
- France 1 (14%)
- Israel 1 (14%)
- United Kingdom 1 (14%)
Investments
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergersand acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions.The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges.This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities.The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.
Goldman Sachs Contacts
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Christopher Dawe
Co-Head Private Investments
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Colin Walsh
Managing Director of Life Sciences Investing
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David Solomon
Chief Executive Officer
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Hillel Moerman
Co-Head Private Capital Group
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James Hayward
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Kirk A. Lepke invest in?
Kirk A. Lepke invests primarily in SaaS, Generative AI and CRM startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Kirk A. Lepke last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kirk A. Lepke closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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