Founder & CEO
David Manrique
Founder & CEO, Civant
Building Civant as a prediction intelligence platform: evidence first, public-data only, and designed for better bid/no-bid discipline.
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The operators behind Civant
Civant is founder-led and supported by advisors across company management, product infrastructure, financial operations, and go-to-market partnerships.
Founder-led · Operator advised · 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.
Advisory Network
Guidance across the decisions that define Civant
From product architecture and data infrastructure to financial strategy 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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Anita van der Laan
CFO / Director, Hanzevast; former Tax Manager, Deloitte
Advises onFinancial operations & regulation
Scale-up, finance, and category-expansion perspective from regulated operating environments.
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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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