Silverfin

TLDR

Silverfin is a Ghent-founded cloud accounting platform for accountancy firms, co-founded by Joris Van Der Gucht and Tim Vandecasteele, and acquired by Visma.

Overview

Silverfin built a cloud-native platform that modernizes the workflow of accountancy firms: standardizing templates, automating recurring tasks, and enabling real-time collaboration between accountants and their clients. The platform became a reference product in the European accounting software market.

Co-founded by Joris Van Der Gucht and Tim Vandecasteele in Ghent, Silverfin grew to serve accounting firms across multiple European markets before being acquired by Visma, the Norwegian software group with an extensive portfolio of European finance and ERP software.

The acquisition represents one of Ghent's notable SaaS exits and demonstrates the commercial potential for Vertical SaaS targeting professional services firms.

Key People

• Joris Van Der Gucht - Co-founder
• Tim Vandecasteele - Co-founder