# Pieterjan Bouten

> Pieterjan Bouten is a seed investor at InThePocket backing Software and Information Technology. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [InThePocket](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inthepocket)
- Location: Ghent, Belgium
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieterjanbouten
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pieterjan
- Website: https://x.com/pieterjan
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pjbouten

Pieterjan Bouten is a seed investor at InThePocket in Ghent focused on Software and Information Technology. Pieterjan Bouten is the Co-Founder - Chairman of the board at In The Pocket. Pieterjan Bouten attended KU Leuven.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $445k–$6.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$3.4M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 26% |
| SaaS | 6 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 19% |
| Internet | 2 | 7% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 26% |
| Series A | 4 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 12 | 44% |
| Italy | 2 | 7% |
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sightera Biosciences | Sightera Biosciences is a Biotechnology Research company. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2026 |  |
| Lexroom.ai | Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs. | $49.9M | Series B | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Tekst | Tekst is a company that analyzes and automates every internal and external business-to-business communication. | $13.5M | Series A | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Handhold | Handhold is an AI platform that creates multimodal agents to automate the sales and onboarding process for inbound leads. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Dytto | Dytto is on a quest to relieve accountants of their daily tasks. With an assistant who utilizes the same technologies as your company, you can stay on top of client work, emails, and deadlines. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Aikido Security | Aikido Security is a developer-first software security product. We scan your code & cloud in 8 different ways, showing you which security issues and vulnerabilities are actually important to solve. We speed up triaging massively by cutting out the false-positives, and making things human-readable. | $60M | Series B | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| SereneDB | SereneDB is a startup, developing the world's first open-source, distributed real-time search database that unifies search and analytical processing for high-speed performance without data duplication. The platform supports real-time data ingestion, updates, and complex queries like full-text, vector, geo, and fuzzy search, all via aPostgreSQL-compatible SQL interface for seamless integration. It targets applications needing live analytics, reducing reliance on multiple tools, pipelines, and caches. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Basalt | Basalt is an end-to-end AI reliability platform designed to help teams build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| CommerceClarity | CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Epiminds | Epiminds develops multi-agent AI systems to run marketing end-to-end. | $6.6M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acurio-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Base10 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base10-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hexa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/efounders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pitchdrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitchdrive) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Syndicate One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syndicate-one) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vento](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vento-db57) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About InThePocket

VC Fund · Ghent, Belgium

In The Pocket builds immersive experiences for Mobile AR, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality.We're a team of 85 engineers, product designers and strategists with a passion to create digital products that make people happy and businesses grow. From strategy to product launch and beyond, we work in strategic partnerships with companies thattake their digital future seriously.

4 contacts available at InThePocket.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Louis Jonckheere | Co-Founder & Board member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-jonckheere |
| Pieterjan Bouten | Co-Founder - Chairman of the board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pieterjan-bouten |
| Jeroen Lemaire | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeroen-lemaire |
| Thomas Mons | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-mons |

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## FAQ

### What does Pieterjan Bouten invest in?

Pieterjan Bouten invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Pieterjan Bouten's check size?

Pieterjan Bouten typically joins rounds of $445k–$6.5M at Seed, $1.1M–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pieterjan Bouten participates in.

### When did Pieterjan Bouten last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Pieterjan Bouten closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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