Henri Jacobs

TLDR

Henri Jacobs is founder of Forcit, a Ghent-based AI-driven innovation management platform, and a serial entrepreneur who also co-founded Birdhouse, the Ghent scale-up accelerator.

Overview

Henri Jacobs (born 1992) started coding as a teenager and has been active in the Belgian tech scene since his early twenties. Forcit offers AI-driven expert management technology designed to unite teams for solving breakthrough innovation, venturing, and sustainability challenges. Henri also co-founded Birdhouse, the Ghent-based startup accelerator that has supported numerous Belgian scale-ups.

He is a public speaker on topics including futurism, corporate governance, and complexity thinking, and chairs the board of Techventures.