Jort de Vries
From zero to something people actually use.
For 15 years, I’ve been turning ideas into products, brands and businesses.
I took Blendle and Universiteit van Nederland from zero to one, joined Polarsteps early on, and co-founded Insify. Different companies, different industries, but usually the same starting point: a good idea and a lot still to figure out.
Today, those products reach millions of people.
These days I’m building Neon, a non-profit creating better schoolbooks for 650,000 students across the Netherlands.
I’m also available for selected freelance and interim work.
What I did
Insify
40K+ entrepreneurs
Co-founder · Product, Brand & Strategy
Built a new kind of insurance company for European entrepreneurs from scratch.
Nederlands Onderwijsinstituut
650K+ students
Founding Designer · Product, Brand & Strategy
Building a non-profit educational publisher from scratch, across schoolbooks, digital learning, publishing tools and AI.
Blendle
1.5M+ users
Founding Designer · Product, Brand & Strategy
Building a non-profit educational publisher from scratch, across schoolbooks, digital learning, publishing tools and AI.
Universiteit van Nederland
50M+ views & listens
Founding Design · Brand & Digital
Helped take Universiteit van Nederland from idea to its first identity and digital experience.
Polarsteps
23M+ users
Early Product & Brand Design
Joined early and helped shape the identity and first versions of the iOS and web apps.
Let’s build something that matters.
New products. New companies. Big ideas worth pursuing. Freelance, interim, or something we build together.
