Overview
Peter-William Hellings is the chief executive officer of MedEx, a role he took up in August 2024, and is based in Bertem. He has chaired AFT Leuven since May 2024, having previously worked there on startup relations from May 2023 to May 2024 and as MedTech organiser from May 2022 to May 2023. During 2025 he was a visiting analyst at Capricorn Partners, and in the first half of 2024 he held an analyst internship at FundPlus. Earlier roles include partnerships lead at Tectonic in 2023, a market research internship at ArtiQ, a fellowship on the Plug and Play Tech Center university programme, student researcher at FIBEr, the KU Leuven Core Facility for Biomechanical Experimentation, and a summer internship at Théa Pharma France in 2018. He took part in the Young Potentials summer school in 2016. He studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of KU Leuven, completing a bachelor's degree in 2017 and a master's degree in 2020, and holds a master of engineering in biomedical engineering from KU Leuven, obtained in 2024. He states expertise in healthcare, medtech, digital health, strategic partnerships and venture capital.
Career history
In the news
- Capricorn Partners joins in HighLife’s +$90 million financing round The round was co-led by Andera Partners, Sofinnova Partners, Supernova Invest and Merieux Equity Partners. The financing will support HighLife in accelerating its commercial expansion across Europe and advancing its US pivotal clinical study. This is an exciting moment for HighLife, following its CE Mark approval of the next-generation Clarity Valve in July, designed to further mitigate the risk of LVOT obstruction. At Capricorn Partners, we are
- We welcome Peter-William to the Capricorn Health team as our new Investment Associate! Peter-William Hellings brings a unique combination of medical expertise, biomedical engineering, and hands-on healthtech entrepreneurship to the team. Some of you may already know him — Peter-William did an internship at Capricorn Partners a year ago, and we're thrilled he decided to come back again! And as a bonus… the team now has its very own trail guide ready to lead the next multi-day mountain hike Katrin Geyskens Filip Pintelon
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