Overview
De Graeve co-founded Peaky with Ser Cappelle, Willem Vos and John-Alexander Kolmus, and runs engineering as CTO. Peaky was entered in the Belgian company register on 21 February 2025 and has its seat at Kouter 7B in Ghent. The platform ties accounting, billing and CRM systems, among them EMAsphere, Odoo, Stripe and Teamleader, into a financial plan that updates as the underlying data moves. Fintech Belgium named Peaky Best Fintech Startup of the Year at the Digital Finance Awards Belgium in Ghent on 23 June 2026. Peaky is listed in the portfolio of the imec.istart accelerator.
The Peaky founding team previously built and scaled Ablo, which won a Google app of the year award in 2019, and worked together at Tinder.
As CTO, De Graeve leads engineering and product architecture at Peaky, where the team builds infrastructure that ties accounting and operational data into living financial plans.
Career history
In the news
- A while ago it was just a beer and a crazy idea. And earlier this year we closed our €𝟭.𝟭𝗠 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 with Peaky. What a ride. 🤩 I come from design, not finance. But you don't need a finance background to see that something is broken when the people running a business are always the last to know what's happening in it. Peaky fixes that. A living financial plan that moves with your business and tells you what's changing before it costs you. Oh, and we were named Belgium's Best FinTech Startup of the Year. Still
- Driving at 120 km/h while looking exclusively in the rearview mirror sounds like a terrible idea, yet that’s how most companies still run their business. Traditional tools only tell you about the wall three weeks after you’ve hit it. Turns out, people prefer seeing the road ahead. Enter Peaky. We just raised €1.1M to build the future of financial planning, and we’re ready to accelerate well beyond 120 km/h. Thanks to our customers and early pilots for their trust. Aikido Security, Tout Bien Pils, ProPlanner, Holmes, The Harbour,
- SEND HELP. Or better: send yourself. I'm looking for an AI-Native Engineer at Peaky, details below👇. ✉️ Apply at careers@peaky.ai
- Guus De Graeve needs help. ‼️ Just kidding, would give my kidney to work with the man. ✉️ Apply at careers@peaky.ai Peaky Willem V. Ser C.
- We went a little overboard on this one. Turns out making coffee feel genuinely rewarding takes a lot of effort. So much fun building it with John-Alexander Kolmus and his eye for design. #coffee #office #diy #engineering #design #teak
- Introducing The Drift Shop, a premium collection of coping mechanisms for finance professionals who've accepted their fate. 🧴 Board Prep Deodorant: "Never let them see you sweat the actuals." 💊 Drifters: nausea relief for when Stripe, HubSpot, and your spreadsheet all disagree. ⚡ Forecast Rebuild Energy Drink: 400mg of variance reconciliation. Contains regret. Every product solves a symptom of the same disease: drift, the silent gap between your plan and reality that goes unnoticed until 45 minutes before the board meeting. We
- Relax. Reinforcements arrive Thursday! Peaky Ser C. Willem V. John-Alexander Kolmus #finance #thedriftshop
- What a month, Peaky has been crowned 🏆 Best Fintech Startup of the Year at the 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 yesterday. Thanks to everyone that helped us get this far. We're not done yet. Our office shelves still have plenty of space for more 😉. Huge thanks to FINTECH BELGIUM for organizing a fantastic event, and to the industry experts on the jury for believing in our vision and what we are building. Congratulations to all the other winners and nominees! 🇧🇪✨ imec.istart (Kris Mertens),
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