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In The Pocket

Founded by Jeroen Lemaire, Louis Jonckheere, Peter Minne, and PJ Bouten in Ghent, In The Pocket has grown into one of Belgium's most recognized digital product studios. The company works with brands like Proximus, De Lijn, and other major European organizations to design and engineer mobile apps, web platforms, and digital services.

Unlike pure consulting firms, In The Pocket positions itself as a product builder, combining design, engineering, and strategy under one roof. The company has also launched its own ventures and invested in product thinking as a discipline.

With 200+ employees, In The Pocket is among the larger independent digital studios in Belgium and a reference for quality product development in the ecosystem.

Stated facts & numbers

  • Jonckheere founded Showpad and In The Pocket at around age 25 and is now 41. (0:44:48, Ben's Mentors 2026-02-04)
  • Louis Jonckheere is 39 years old and started his first tech company (In The Pocket) 14 years ago. (0:01:32, De CFO Podcast 2024-09-09)
  • In The Pocket was founded around 2010 as one of the first mobile agencies in Europe, with early clients including VRT and Qmusic. (0:20:35, Connexi 2023-01-30)
  • In The Pocket was started with 3x €5,000 from the three founders, which lasted six months. (0:07:05, The Harbour 2024-04-18)
  • In The Pocket raised €120,000 from angel investor 'Bert' at a first valuation of ~€1.2M, raised 30-40% last minute. (0:08:05, The Harbour 2024-04-18)
  • Showpad was initially financed via an intercompany loan of a few hundred thousand euros from In The Pocket, fully repaid, plus ~€15-18k starting capital Louis partly borrowed from a friend. (0:19:15, The Harbour 2024-04-18)

Who works here6

Jeroen LemaireCo-Founder, CEOPieterjan BoutenCo-Founder - Board memberCathy GeertsChief People Officer

Open positions

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Recent mentions8

12 Aug 2026First the web. Then the app. Now the agent. Every time the interface changes, the winners change with it. Agents are the next level, and…LinkedIn17 Jul 2026🌡️ It's a hot summer at In The Pocket. And no, we're not talking about the temperatures. We're also not talking about our terrace.…LinkedIn13 Jul 2026Glenn B. and Ferre De Belie built an internal meetings platform in under two weeks. It records, transcribes and summarises every meeting,…LinkedIn08 Jul 2026More AI in your workflow doesn't automatically mean better software. Left alone, it means more slop. At our June Afterwork, Hannes V. gave…LinkedIn03 Jul 2026✨ Scan a wound with an iPhone. Thirty seconds later, a specialist walks around it in 3D on an Apple Vision Pro, from anywhere. Stijn…LinkedIn03 Jul 2026Leadership isn't buying your AI proposals? They're not rejecting AI. They're rejecting the pitch. Most use cases die in a meeting room. Not…LinkedIn29 Jun 2026Too often we see headlines about public IT projects going off track. And while it's easy to bash from the sidelines, we wanted to show it…LinkedIn29 Jun 2026We hosted another night of Pocketbytes at our Bucharest studio. No vendor talks that only scratch the surface. Instead, going deep on how…LinkedIn