Overview
Cappelle co-founded Peaky alongside Willem Vos, Guus De Graeve, and John-Alexander Kolmus. The company operates from Ghent and targets growth-stage finance teams that need continuous, AI-Native financial plans rather than static spreadsheets.
As CEO, Cappelle leads strategy, fundraising, and commercial direction at Peaky while the team builds out the platform that connects execution to live financial plans.
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
- Awards, awards… we could get used to this. Very happy to see Peaky among the final 6 out of 60+ fintechs for Mastercard For Fintechs. Next stop: Paris. 🇫🇷 Looking forward to it!
- Push. Push. Push. (should probably get that tattoo)
- We’re looking for someone who loves challenging founders. If your first instinct is to nod along, this job probably isn’t for you. Help us challenge, refine and scale how we grow. Peaky is hiring 👇
- At least we know what the backup plan is if Peaky doesn't work out. Credit to Guus De Graeve and John-Alexander Kolmus for building a coffee corner that looks suspiciously professional for a startup. Luckily, we'll stick to building the intelligence layer for scaling companies. Coffee just happens to be part of the infrastructure.
- Every CFO eventually needs reinforcements. Ours just happen to arrive next week. Stay tuned. Peaky Willem V. John-Alexander Kolmus Guus De Graeve
- Best FinTech Startup of the Year 2026 For once, the surprise was a good one. Thanks to our customers, partners, jury, and everyone helping us build the financial infrastructure for scaling without surprises. A special thanks to FINTECH BELGIUM for organizing the awards and bringing together such a strong fintech community. Congratulations to all the other winners as well. We promise to act normal tomorrow. Probably. Toon Vanagt Raf De Kimpe Isabelle Tennstedt Stan Jeanty Virginie Claes John-Alexander Kolmus Guus De Graeve
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