Phil Rivard
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPhil Rivard is a founder-turned-operator who counsels and builds startups from pre-seed to Series A, with eight years focused on turning manual services into scalable products and fundraising infrastructure. He cofounded and led early startups through Techstars, raised pre-seed capital, lost it, and used those lessons to design and run accelerators like Next AI and programs at NEXT Canada and Techstars—having worked directly with 350+ founders. Hands-on as a fractional C-level and product lead, he’s helped productize services into automated marketplaces (one raising $1.6M) and built fundraising systems for companies closing multi-million dollar rounds. He ships founder tools and AI workflows that automate repetitive founder tasks (examples: pitchsmith.io, withclaude.io) and currently experiments with a Claude-powered co-founder model. Phil prioritizes solo and underrepresented founders and brings a rare founder-empathy informed by personal hardship and neurodiversity—he discovered at 43 that he’s autistic with ADHD, which shapes how he connects with similarly wired entrepreneurs. Based in Montreal, he also serves on boards and as a startup coach inside large institutions, blending street-level execution with program design.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Graduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at FounderX Advisory ProgramGraduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Graduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at Founder InstituteGraduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Graduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at FounderLabACS, Programmer Analyst / Internet Solutions Developer — LEA.4E, ACS, Programmer Analyst / Internet Solutions Developer — LEA.4E at CDI CollegeGraduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Graduate, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at Techstars
French, English
Github Skills (8)
eosio8
blockchain8
compatibility3
patch2
nft2
ethereum2
linux2
windows1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dfuse-io/ice
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 days
phila82r/dfuse-eosio
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
dfuse for EOSIO
Contributions:2 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
eosiodfuse
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