About Inmanta
Inmanta is the leading expert in end-to-end service orchestration of services and networks. We empower service providers to rapidly deliver and efficiently manage their services
Who we are
Recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, Inmanta empowers telecom companies and communications service providers (CSPs) to deliver their services much faster, at scale and with more flexibility.
Through purpose-built multi-domain and truly intent-based orchestration we automate and streamline services and networks end to end, eliminating complexity and minimizing time to cash and total cost of ownership (TCO). Instead of months and years to release and deliver services, Inmanta reduces the process to a matter of weeks and minutes.
Leading telecom and communication service providers rely on Inmanta’s orchestration solutions to deliver mission-critical services, beef up their automation process, increase operational efficiency, and to guide them through their transformation journey.
We are thrilled to join forces with Inmanta, it’s important for us to work with a partner who can enable us to have unparalleled flexibility and control over our network infrastructure. Inmanta empowers our company to adapt to growing customer demands and industry trends to drive digital transformation and business growth
Inmanta can handle complex flows spanning multiple domains & orchestrating through internal tools. More importantly, it provided us with an end-to-end solution - taking in the request from the customer, working its way on our on-prem network, followed by provisioning on hyper-scalers and finishing it all up with proper documentation
The company’s refreshingly frank and honest presentations at recent conferences reflect the openness and collaborative attitude of the new wave of IT vendors now in telecom. Sharing experiences of what worked well, what worked less well, and lessons learned exemplifies the continuous improvement mantra of “lean” thinking. It marks Inmanta out as a company which practices what it preaches.
Inmanta’s highly programmable intent-driven service orchestration suite is complemented with FNT Software’s “state-of-the-art” network inventory solution, which natively supports any traditional and cloud networks. From the digital service provider’s perspective, such combination facilitates seamless service fulfilment as well as rapid onboarding of new network technologies. New service delivery models are implemented faster, having positive impact on “Time-to-Market” for new products.
We strongly believe that network automation will shape the future of our network, making it easier and more efficient to operate while delivering the best-in-class experience to our customers. The service orchestrator developed by Inmanta will help us in realizing this exciting transformation journey.
Leadership team
Stefan Walraven, PhD
Co-founder & CEO
Stefan Walraven leads the company's sales and business operations. Stefan is a regular speaker and evangelist at global telecom events, sharing years of experience and best practices to help telcos and enterprises in their automation journey.
Stefan holds a PhD in software engineering and middleware for multi-tenant SaaS applications.
Wouter De Borger, PhD
Co-founder & Chief Architect
Wouter De Borger is head of development, release & QA of Inmanta's flagship orchestration software, and is in charge of R&D.
Wouter is a highly skilled software architect and engineer with over 10 years of experience in cloud and DevOps. Wouter holds a PhD in monitoring large-scale distributed systems and complex data transformations.
Bart Vanbrabant, PhD
Co-founder & CTO
Bart Vanbrabant is responsible for the company's product strategy and leads the innovation and development of our product portfolio.
Bart has over 15 years of experience in managing and operating large-scale IT and network infrastructures. He holds a PhD in configuration management of distributed systems.
Professor Wouter Joosen
Chairman of the board
Wouter Joosen is a seasoned entrepreneur in the field of IT, security and networks. Wouter is full professor at the Dept. of Computer Science of KU Leuven.
He formerly co-founded Ubizen (now part of Verizon Business Solutions), a managed security company where he has been CTO and later COO, and Luciad, a company specialized in GIS software.
Wim Bens
Board member
Wim Bens is a Dutch self-employed entrepreneur, active for more than 35 years in the field of Valorization, Entrepreneurship and Business Development with over 30 Universities, Polytechnics and Knowledge Institutes mainly in the Netherlands but also abroad.
He has a long track record in coaching, training and mentoring high tech startups and accelerators.
Michaël Raes
Board member
Michaël holds a Master in Electrical Engineering and has a background in software development and electronics design. Currently, Michaël is Investment Manager at PMV, the Flemish investment company.
His investment domain-of-interest is all things tech and he also sits on the Board of various SaaS companies active in domains like autonomous driving, statistics and logistics.
What we've accomplished
We strive for excellence in everything we do. We are committed to deliver the highest quality and to continuously improve our products and solutions.
Our History
Inmanta NV is a spin-off company of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium), emerging from the imec-DistriNet Research Group. The company was founded by 3 entrepreneurs – PhDs in computer science – and Professor Wouter Joosen. The automation and orchestration technology of Inmanta is based on 15+ years of research and interaction with the ICT industry. Inmanta has leveraged on these activities to build up a best-in-class commercial service orchestrator that aims at automating the configuration, delivery, fulfillment and management of large-scale networks and applications.
Inmanta won the international Call for Innovation on SDN/NFV 2.0, organized by Proximus, Swisscom and Telia, and has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in Gartner “Cool Vendors in AI and Automation for CSP Operations and Engagement” report
