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Bill Clerico is Managing Partner at Convective Capital.
Bill Clerico has founded companies and has also been involved with WePay.
Bill Clerico is the Founder and Managing Partner of Convective Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of WePay, a fintech startup he guided through Y Combinator and led for twelve years until its $400 million acquisition by JPMorgan Chase in 2017. Following the acquisition, Clerico managed the small and medium-sized business payments division at JPMorgan Chase and directed strategic investments in companies including Toast, Touchbistro, and Freshbooks. In 2022, he launched Convective Capital with a $35 million inaugural fund to back startups developing technologies for wildfire prevention, suppression, and adaptation. Today, his primary focus is writing $500,000 to $1 million checks for pre-seed through Series B climate tech companies dedicated to mitigating global wildfire impacts.
