Founder & CEO
David Manrique
Founder & CEO, Civant
Civant is built for preparation before pressure: evidence first, public-data only, and disciplined decisions before the tender window closes.
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The people behind Civant
Civant is founder-led and built from direct experience in SaaS, EdTech, public-sector selling, and partner-led go-to-market execution.
Founder-led · Advisor-supported · Built in Ireland
Founder
Built from close contact with public-sector markets
After 15 years across SaaS, education technology, and public-sector markets, David kept seeing capable teams arrive too late, with too little context, against incumbents who already understood the buyer and renewal cycle.
Civant turns that repeated problem into a system: official data, lifecycle signals, competitor movement, and external public signals connected into decisions teams can act on before pressure peaks.
Supported by Irish enterprise networks, with advisory input across product, finance, and market expansion.
Advisory Network
Guidance across the decisions that define Civant
Civant draws on a compact group of approved advisors across company building, technical infrastructure, and go-to-market execution.
Jean-Marie Cognet
Co-founder & CEO, UbiCast
Advises onCompany management and sales strategy
VP Higher Education at EdTech France, with deep European EdTech and public-sector market experience.
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Florent Thiery
Product, OVHcloud; former CTO, UbiCast
Advises onTechnical scale and product infrastructure
Technical and infrastructure guidance for European SaaS scale-up decisions.
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Jukka Sormunen
RDI Director, Mobie
Advises onGTM strategy & partnerships
Education-market, Nordic expansion, and public-sector learning technology perspective.
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Who is behind Civant?
Civant is led by its founder, combining commercial, partnerships, and go-to-market experience in SaaS and public-sector ecosystems, supported by an advisory network across product, data infrastructure, and financial strategy.
How involved is the advisory network?
Advisors support specific areas of the business including product architecture, data infrastructure, financial strategy, and go-to-market execution. Their role is to guide critical decisions as Civant evolves.
Is Civant a large team?
Civant is intentionally built as a focused, high-capability organisation. The platform is designed around data systems and automation, supported by specialist advisors rather than a large internal team.
What experience is behind Civant?
Civant is built on experience across SaaS, partnerships, and European public-sector markets, with a strong focus on market expansion, commercial strategy, and data-led decision making.
Where is Civant based?
Civant is based in Ireland and focused on European public procurement markets.
How is Civant supported?
Civant is supported by Enterprise Ireland, the Local Enterprise Office, and Dundalk Institute of Technology through structured programmes designed to support high-potential companies.
Talk to the people building procurement intelligence differently
If your team needs stronger bid discipline, better market context, or a clearer way to read public-sector demand, Civant can help you understand what is forming before the tender window closes.