Stephen Shanley

Partner at KKR, Head of Tech Growth Equity, Europe

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
Angel investor🌍 United KingdomInvested this year
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Board Observer
Aug 2021
Leapwork is the only AI-powered visual test automation platform that truly enables speed and efficiency in software testing. Thanks to the platform’s visual interface, it’s easy and intuitive to use - just like cobbling Lego blocks together - empowering entire enterprise teams to learn, build and maintain automation in just 30 days. Leapwork works across all applications making it ideal for enterprises with complex tech stacks. That’s why we are used by hundreds of global enterprises across all industries. Clients include Mercedes Benz, PayPal, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and BNP Paribas. Thanks to Leapwork, enterprises are reducing risk, improving quality and releasing software faster than ever before.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Feedzai powers trust in global finance with our AI-native financial crime prevention platform, protecting the moments where money matters most at massive scale. Our platform works tirelessly to protect every customer interaction, processing 90 billion events and securing $8 trillion in payments every year. Our modern RiskOps approach unifies Data, AI, and Control to secure the entire customer journey, offering protection across fraud prevention, identity, and AML. Top leaders and organizations in banking and payments trust us to help them build institutional confidence, ensure compliance, and modernize their risk infrastructure globally. Beyond the platform, our clients gain expert insights backed by 10 years of AI research and a global team of behavioral experts, practitioners, and data scientists. This collective intelligence turns billions of data points into a powerful, well-rounded defense. Feedzai has recently reached a valuation of $2 billion, marking us as a leader in the industry. Our mission is clear: we are building a world where financial institutions move faster than criminals, a world where fraud and risk leaders can solve problems by the billions. Our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.
Investor
Jan 2021
Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company with a mission to bring joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. Wolt develops a local commerce platform that connects people looking to order food, groceries, and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH) in 2022. Together, we operate in more than 30 countries today.
Board Member
Sep 2020
We are the fitness company born from gaming. And we’re on a mission to make more people, more active, more often.
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Artlist is a leading creative technology company offering content creators powerful video and image editing software, and over 900,000 professional digital assets under a revolutionary, global license that covers every project worldwide. In its mission to empower people to tell stories through video, Artlist offers four products: Artlist.io, a royalty-free music and SFX platform; Artgrid.io, a curated stock footage platform; MotionArray.com, an all-in-one marketplace for creators including video templates, presets, music, SFX, stock footage, motion graphics and stock photos; and FXhome, a cutting-edge video, VFX and image editing software. Artlist works with a growing team of contributors across the globe, updating its catalogs daily with fresh content while preserving a consistently high level of quality across its media and platforms. Since its founding in 2016, Artlist has revolutionized the industry by offering subscription-based products under an unmatched license, and is becoming the ultimate 360-degree solution for content creators. Recognized as a top startup by LinkedIn and WIRED, Artlist counts Google, Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola, Ikea, Mercedes, Samsung, Wix, Netflix, Dior and many more among its 16 million clients.
Board Member
Mar 2019
KnowBe4 is the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform that helps you manage the ongoing problem of social engineering. The KnowBe4 platform is user-friendly and intuitive, and powerful. It was built to scale for busy IT pros that have 16 other fires to put out. Our goal was to design a full-featured, yet easy-to-use platform. Customers with businesses of all sizes can get the KnowBe4 platform deployed into production at least twice as fast as our competitors. Our Customer Success team gets you going in no time, without the need for consulting hours.
Board Member
Jul 2016
Darktrace is a global leader in AI cybersecurity, providing the essential cybersecurity platform to secure organizations today and for an ever-changing future. Darktrace AI learns from each businesss unique data in real time, detecting threats and intervening against attacks with precision and speed. We are a diverse and inclusive team of over 2,400 employees, each playing a crucial role in protecting nearly 10,000 organizations and communities worldwide from known, unknown, and novel cyber-threats.
Board Member
Nov 2015
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tours from local experts, exclusive access to must-see attractions, as well as immersive bucket-list experiences. More than 50,000 supply partners leverage GetYourGuide’s easy-to-use platform to grow their businesses, offering 200,000 experiences to travelers around the world. If you share our passion for travel and tech, check out our open positions at careers.getyourguide.com or take a look behind the scenes of GetYourGuide on our blog: inside.getyourguide.com. Important notice: Protect yourself from recruitment scams. To ensure your safety during the application process, please be aware of potential scammers impersonating GetYourGuide recruiters. Remember, GetYourGuide will never request your payment or sensitive personal information during recruitment. All official job opportunities are exclusively posted on our Careers page. If you suspect fraudulent activity, report it to jobs@getyourguide.com.
Board Observer
Sep 2015
OptimalPlus is the established leader of lifecycle analytics for the electronics industry and its entire supply chain. The OptimalPlus open platform pairs unprecedented visibility into the electronics lifecycle with advanced data science and domain expertise to enhance production metrics and ensure overall product reliability. OptimalPlus is trusted by many of the world’s leading electronics players, including Qualcomm, NXP, and Nvidia. For more information, please visit http://www.optimalplus.com.
Board Member
Feb 2015
By joining forces with Contentsquare, we become the definitive market leader in experience analytics. Follow Contentsquare for the latest news, updates and digital experience insight.
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2025
Board Member
Dec 2025
Our AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organizations applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust us to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, we help organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI today. We are recognized as a leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies, and government institutions.
2024
Board Member
Nov 2024
Lighthouse is the leading commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. We transform complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. Trusted by over 70,000 hotels in 185 countries, and supported by 700+ employees, Lighthouse is the only solution that provides real-time hotel and short-term rental data in a single platform. We strive to deliver the best possible experience with unmatched customer service. We consider our clients as true partners — their success is our success.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Managing a hospitality business is complex. Guesty is your partner in making it easier. With an all-in-one platform, Guesty’s purpose-built technology optimizes and automates every aspect of your hospitality operations so you can save time, maximize revenue, and stay ahead of the curve. Our industry-wide expertise, large-scale R&D department of 200+ engineers, and technology-first approach ensures that hospitality businesses can streamline operations and achieve growth, all while delivering the best value to their guests. With a complete suite of features and more than 150+ industry partners, Guesty is transforming the hospitality industry with innovative solutions that help you succeed.
2021
Board Observer
Aug 2021
Leapwork is the only AI-powered visual test automation platform that truly enables speed and efficiency in software testing. Thanks to the platform’s visual interface, it’s easy and intuitive to use - just like cobbling Lego blocks together - empowering entire enterprise teams to learn, build and maintain automation in just 30 days. Leapwork works across all applications making it ideal for enterprises with complex tech stacks. That’s why we are used by hundreds of global enterprises across all industries. Clients include Mercedes Benz, PayPal, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and BNP Paribas. Thanks to Leapwork, enterprises are reducing risk, improving quality and releasing software faster than ever before.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Feedzai powers trust in global finance with our AI-native financial crime prevention platform, protecting the moments where money matters most at massive scale. Our platform works tirelessly to protect every customer interaction, processing 90 billion events and securing $8 trillion in payments every year. Our modern RiskOps approach unifies Data, AI, and Control to secure the entire customer journey, offering protection across fraud prevention, identity, and AML. Top leaders and organizations in banking and payments trust us to help them build institutional confidence, ensure compliance, and modernize their risk infrastructure globally. Beyond the platform, our clients gain expert insights backed by 10 years of AI research and a global team of behavioral experts, practitioners, and data scientists. This collective intelligence turns billions of data points into a powerful, well-rounded defense. Feedzai has recently reached a valuation of $2 billion, marking us as a leader in the industry. Our mission is clear: we are building a world where financial institutions move faster than criminals, a world where fraud and risk leaders can solve problems by the billions. Our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.
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