# Bill Clerico

> Bill Clerico is a seed investor at Convective Capital backing Software. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Convective Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/convective-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/billclerico
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/billclerico
- Website: https://x.com/billclerico
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bill.clerico

Bill Clerico is a seed investor at Convective Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Bill Clerico is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Red Sky Summit. Bill previously worked at WePay as a founder & CEO. Bill Clerico attended Boston College. Bill Clerico has been awarded the Outstanding Customer Service Stevie Award.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$8.5M |
| Series A | $14M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 32% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 23% |
| FinTech | 4 | 18% |
| Payments | 3 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 14% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 45% |
| Series A | 5 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 55% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drafted | Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | $16M | Seed | May 29, 2026 |  |
| Drafted | Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $43M | Series B | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Seneca | Seneca is a company that develops advanced AI, robotic, and autonomous drone systems specifically designed to combat the escalating threat of wildfires. Their flagship product is an autonomous rapid response fire suppression drone system that can be controlled by a single pilot managing multiple drones carrying fire retardants. These AI-powereddrones use infrared and video technology for precise targeting, enabling rapid detection and suppression of fires and smoldering embers, often before they grow out of control. | $60M | Series A | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Rhizome | Rhizome's AI-powered climate platform helps utilities identify vulnerabilities from climate threats, quantify risk at high resolutions, and measure the benefits of grid-enhancing investments. At its core, we provide the highest standard of climate risk mitigation to ensure that communities and businesses are protected against intensifyingextreme weather events. | $6.5M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Rhizome | Rhizome's AI-powered climate platform helps utilities identify vulnerabilities from climate threats, quantify risk at high resolutions, and measure the benefits of grid-enhancing investments. At its core, we provide the highest standard of climate risk mitigation to ensure that communities and businesses are protected against intensifyingextreme weather events. | $1M | Seed | Jun 17, 2024 |  |
| Coris | Coris is a modern risk infrastructure for vertical Software-a-as-Service companies and payment processors. Coris provides relevant alternative data about merchants for efficient and automated underwriting, as well as early warning signals before a merchant goes out of business. With native integration to Stripe Connect, Coris also provides acomprehensive Merchant Risk platform for risk teams to underwrite and manage risk of SMBs.Coris is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and is backed by Y Combinator plus a slew of prominent investors. | $3.7M | Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $14M | Series A | Oct 19, 2023 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $5.2M | Seed | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 05, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Moxxie Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moxxie-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [CapitalT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capitalt) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Pale blue dot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pale-blue-dot-3a83) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [B Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-capital-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Convective Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Convective Capital is an investment firm.

1 contacts available at Convective Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Clerico | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-clerico |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill Clerico invest in?

Bill Clerico invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Bill Clerico's check size?

Bill Clerico typically joins rounds of $1M–$8.5M at Seed and $14M–$60M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bill Clerico participates in.

### When did Bill Clerico last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill Clerico closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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