Bill Clerico

Bill Clerico

Convective Capital

About

Role

Managing Partner

Type

Full-time Angel

Bio

Bill is the founder of Convective Capital, an investment firm backing "Firetech" companies: technology companies working to prevent, suppress and mitigate wildfire-related impact. Previously, Bill was the founder and CEO at WePay, which he started at 23 and led for 12 years through its acquisition by J.P. Morgan Chase. At J.P. Morgan, Bill ran the SMB payments business, and led strategic investments in Toast, Touchbistro and Freshbooks. He has been named one of Bloomberg’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs & WePay was consistently named a Best Place to Work.

About Investments

I focus most of my time investing through Convective in Firetech (companies preventing, suppressing or helping us adapt to wildfire).

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B and beyond

Check Range

$500K-$1M

Geography

Global

Leads Rounds

Prefers to

Investment Highlights

Boom, Cambly, Deel, Lattice, Mercury

Get in touch

How they work

Warm intro is the best way to reach me - I'm open to cold outreach if you are solving a problem in wildfire.

Contact Links

Please review this investor’s areas of interest, check size, and geographic constraints before making contact: you will have a much higher chance of success if your outreach is targeted.

Disclaimers and footnotes

    Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank.