Convective Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Convective Capital is an investment firm.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Convective Capital invests in
Stages Convective Capital invests in
Countries Convective Capital invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (28%)
- Software 4 (16%)
- Robotics 3 (12%)
- Information Technology 3 (12%)
- Hardware 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (44%)
- Series A 8 (32%)
- Series B 2 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 15 (60%)
- The Netherlands 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bill Clerico
Founder and Managing Partner
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Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 22 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Piq Energy
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Piq Energy provides a grid planning software platform designed to manage and accelerate the grid interconnection process for power projects. The company's platform integrates standard engineering tools, network models, and queue data into a unified workflow for energy developers, utilities, and grid operators. This software automatesengineering studies and evaluates transmission technologies to identify viable sites and unlock grid capacity. The central value proposition focuses on reducing the time required to connect energy generators and large loads to the electrical grid. | $5M / Seed / Jul 08, 2026 | |
Drafted
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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 | |
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Drafted
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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
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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 | |
Gridware
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Gridware offers a grid-intelligence platform that equips utilities with real-time visibility into the physical, electrical, and environmental conditions of their overhead infrastructure. Its core product, GridScope, is a small, solar-powered sensor mounted on utility poles that continuously monitors mechanical vibrations, electrical activity, andambient stressors even during outages. On-device analytics identify hazards, localize faults, and classify their severity, allowing line crews to respond efficiently and safely. Through its Active Grid Response system, Gridware helps utilities detect issues before they escalate, supporting timely maintenance and more stable grid operations. | $55M / Series B / Nov 17, 2025 | |
Seneca
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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 | |
Edge
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'Insurtech', 'Fintech' | $6.2M / Seed / Sep 19, 2025 | |
Rhizome
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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 | |
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Gridware
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Gridware offers a grid-intelligence platform that equips utilities with real-time visibility into the physical, electrical, and environmental conditions of their overhead infrastructure. Its core product, GridScope, is a small, solar-powered sensor mounted on utility poles that continuously monitors mechanical vibrations, electrical activity, andambient stressors even during outages. On-device analytics identify hazards, localize faults, and classify their severity, allowing line crews to respond efficiently and safely. Through its Active Grid Response system, Gridware helps utilities detect issues before they escalate, supporting timely maintenance and more stable grid operations. | $26.4M / Series A / Jan 08, 2025 | |
Stand
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Stand simulates real-world risk using physics and AI. | $30M / Series A / Dec 16, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Convective Capital invest in?
Convective Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Convective Capital?
The team at Convective Capital includes Bill Clerico (Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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