# Thomas Rival

> Thomas Rival is a seed investor at Evolem Start backing Software and Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Evolem Start](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolem-start)
- Location: Lyon, France
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-rival-evolem/

Thomas Rival is a seed investor at Evolem Start in Lyon focused on Software and Information Technology. Thomas Rival, Partner at Evolem.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |
| Biopharma | 1 | 8% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sirius NeoSight | Sirius NeoSight is a biotech and pharmaceutical company that detects subclinical neo-cancers and provide treatment for it. | $4.6M | Seed | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| Wineriz | Wineriz is a SaaS tool that assists winemakers in streamlining their direct sales process. Wineriz specializes in the trade of wine & spirits, connecting winemakers and sellers together in real time. Buyers have access to their favorite winemakers catalog at the right price, order online and are being delivered for a very competitive price.Winemakers manage their whole direct sales directly through 1 online dashboard. | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 21, 2024 |  |
| NectarGo | NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address. | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| Pongo | Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger | $5.4M | Series A | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Pongo | Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger | $5.4M | Series A | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Reecall | Regardless of call volume, Reecall's virtual agent provides rapid responses. A competitive advantage that ensures the growth of a business and the delight of its customers. Reecall boosts sales teams' productivity by automating the administration of incoming calls. Request pre-qualification, estimates, and partnership requests may all beprocessed automatically, allowing your personnel to focus on client connections. | $3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Reecall | Regardless of call volume, Reecall's virtual agent provides rapid responses. A competitive advantage that ensures the growth of a business and the delight of its customers. Reecall boosts sales teams' productivity by automating the administration of incoming calls. Request pre-qualification, estimates, and partnership requests may all beprocessed automatically, allowing your personnel to focus on client connections. | $3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Brainboard | Brainboard is an AI driven platform to visually design and manage cloud infrastructure, collaboratively. It's the only solution that automatically generates IaC code for any cloud provider, with an embedded CI/CD. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 26, 2021 |  |
| Monisnap | Moni is a French fintech transforming international money transfers for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2017 in Paris by former Google and Groupon employees, we enable fast, secure, and cost-effective remittances from Europe to more than 150 destination countries, challenging traditional players with a fully digital experience built ontransparency, affordability, and ease of use.We operate as a regulated payment institution, authorized by the ACPR (the French banking supervisor) since November 2023, and have been ISO 27001 certified since December 2024 — reflecting our commitment to regulatory compliance, data security, and operational excellence. Our platform connects to an extensive network of payout partners, allowing recipients to receive funds via bank transfer, mobile wallet, or cash pickup within minutes.Beyond our core B2C remittance service, we provide tailored international payment solutions for businesses, supporting their cross-border operations with the same infrastructure, speed, and reliability. We serve a growing base of customers across Europe and process transfers to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with a strong focus on corridors underserved by traditional banking. | $11.8M | Series A | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Smartway | Created by 2 brothers in 2012, Smartway was born from an ethical and environmental observation linked to the fact of throwing away products that are still good for consumption. Their goal: to reduce food and non-food waste and save their customers money.In order to highlight, in stores, products to be consumed quickly, Smartway creates a linkbetween consumers and distributors through a win-win relationship. On the consumer side, this free service makes it possible, on the one hand, to list products to be consumed quickly (and therefore cheaper) nearby, and on the other hand to increase the performance of stores by improving the management of their unsold products. Smartway is growing in Europe. Its team has won numerous awards from actors involved in sustainable development, web and mass distribution. | $11.9M | Series A | Apr 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techmind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techmind) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Evolem Start](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolem-start) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Altavia Adventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altavia-adventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angelsquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelsquare) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EVOLEM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolem) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Frst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frst-d3d4) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Evolem Start

VC Fund · Lyon, France

Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.

2 contacts available at Evolem Start.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruno Rousset | Chairman of the Supervisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-rousset |
| Thomas Rival | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-rival |

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## FAQ

### What does Thomas Rival invest in?

Thomas Rival invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Thomas Rival last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Rival closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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