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
- 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,
- 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 🦄
- Our first testimonial 🚀 The part I love most? Jens Bogaert at Maurice & Nora set this up on his own. He hooked Holmes up to Claude via our MCP and generated tests straight from his own features. Zero hand-holding from us. This is the kind of use we built Holmes for. Thanks Jens 🙌
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