Overview
Delrue spent nearly four years at Teamleader, a Ghent-based CRM and business software scale-up, before co-founding Smartendr in 2021 with Robin Praet and Louis Pannier. He led sales and strategy at Smartendr, helping the company reach 600+ hospitality venues, 400,000+ monthly users, and over EUR 1M in revenue. Smartendr was acquired by Ghent-based OrderBilly in September 2025.
In 2026 Delrue co-founded Holmes with Praet and Sofie Buyse, an autonomous QA platform that launched in May 2026 with a EUR 1.1M pre-Seed round led by Syndicate One. He has also angel-invested in Belgian hospitality tech, including the EUR 510K Feedelity round.
Delrue studied at Arteveldehogeschool and is based in Ghent.
Career history
In the news
- I gave an AI QA agent 30 minutes to test SauceDemo. It came back with 12 findings. Sounds impressive. But can someone else reproduce them? After a chat with Robbrecht Delrue, I tried Holmes with no codebase context and no custom Bug Hunt instructions. It explored 10 pages on its own. Then I manually checked all 12 findings. A few examples: - Checkout completed with an empty cart. I even generated a $0.00 PDF receipt. - Reset App State cleared the cart counter, but the item remained visible until refresh. - Three spaces were accepted
- One summer Friday night, we shipped a new feature at Smartendr, our previous company. It broke the checkout for our hospitality customers. Half an hour later, the phone was on fire. That stress never went away. Today every team feels it. AI writes more code than ever, but someone still has to check that it works. That's why we built Holmes. Every time you ship, Holmes tests your product like a real customer. It logs in, it pays, and it finds what's broken before your customers do. On 21 October I'm pitching Holmes as a finalist at
- We're growing the engineering team at Holmes. 🚀 We're looking for exceptional Engineers and AI Engineers to join us early and build Holmes with us. A few months ago, Holmes was pre-revenue. Today: → €1.15M raised pre-revenue → Backed by Syndicate One, 100IN, NewSchool.vc, RDY.VC, Aikido Security, ... → Launched our product in May → 25+ paying customers → More companies testing Holmes every week We're moving fast. Demand is growing. Holmes is an AI-native QA platform that autonomously tests software like a real user. You'll work on
- 𝗪𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 €𝟭.𝟭𝗠 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. Sorry to whoever already published the Q2 funding numbers. Led by JK INVEST, with imec.istart, ⚡ Super Capital ⚡ and a group of exceptional business angels. Sixteen years in finance and one thing still makes no sense to me. The business changes every day. Finance finds out last. Finance still has to explain it. Most tools just help you build and update your forecast faster. But they still wait for the numbers. Four days or four minutes. Who cares. 👀 Enter Peaky. We
- 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,
- New in Holmes: mobile app testing.📱🕵️♂️ Same detective. Smaller screen. Holmes now tests mobile apps. Describe the flow. Holmes finds its way through your app, records what it did, and checks it again on every build. Real devices, real OTPs, real verdicts. No scripts. No device farm. No one on the team tapping through checkout on a Friday evening. Send us your app. We'll send back the bugs.
- Some opportunities only exist once. We believe AI will fundamentally change how software is tested. At Holmes, we're building that future. We've recently raised funding, our first customers are signing, and we're looking for a *Founding AI Engineer* to help build Holmes from day one. Not someone looking for a job. Someone who wants to build a company from day one. Someone who gets excited by ownership, ambitious goals and the opportunity to build something with global impact. If that sounds like you, let's talk. 📍 Ghent, Belgium 🦄
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