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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Convective Capital Management, LLC
Convective Capital Management, LLC
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venture manager, reported GAV $35.1M across 2 vehicles
Importance
21
moderate
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
54
elevated
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
24
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 655 MONTGOMERY STREET, SUITE 820, San Francisco, CA, 94111adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-560-4015adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 26, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 2 (2 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $122Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 650-560-4015adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
23 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- hardware, robotics
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation
series b 100%
Stage at first entry
series b 100%
Sectors
unknown 91%Manufacturing 5%Environmental Services 5%
lead rate 0%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 23
Funds and vehicles
2 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convective Capital Fund I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $35.1M Mar 29, 2024 | 81 | $0 of $30.0M | Apr 21, 2022 |
| Convective Capital Fund II, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | unknown | unknown | $0 of $75.0M | Jan 7, 2025 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
5 current, 0 departed
Bill Clerico
Managing partnerFounder & Managing Partner
Mike Trapanese
PartnerPartner
William D Clerico
PartnerManaging Director · since Apr 1, 2022
Amy Brown
Platform and operationsDirector of Operations
Jay Ribakove
PrincipalPrincipal
Investments on record
23 edges, 22 companies, 1 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
32 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Pathbreaker Ventures II, LLC 2 shared · recurringKhosla Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeIA Capital Group, Inc. 1 shared · one timeK50 Ventures 1 shared · one timeMoneta Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeLevel One Fund 1 shared · one timeRPM Ventures 1 shared · one timeEL Cap Holdings Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeLeap Forward Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeRackhouse Venture Management LP 1 shared · one timeAmerican Family Ventures 1 shared · one timeAnzu Partners 1 shared · one timeFika Ventures 1 shared · one timeMCJ Venture Management 1 shared · one timeAnkona Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeEqual Ventures 1 shared · one timeBlue Bear Investment Group, LLC 1 shared · one timeFirstmark Capital, LLC 1 shared · one timeTenoneten 1 shared · one timeAzolla Management Company, LP 1 shared · one timeSeraphim Space Manager LLP 1 shared · one timeB Capital Group 1 shared · one timeTrue Ventures 1 shared · one timeT2 Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeMCJ 1 shared · one timeSemapa Next 1 shared · one timeMoxxie 1 shared · one timePale Blue Dot 1 shared · one timeBlume Equity 1 shared · one time · they led 1Energy Impact Partners LP 1 shared · one timeCapitalT 1 shared · one timeBentley Systems 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- Jan 9, 2023Convective Capital Management, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 9, 2023Convective Capital Fund I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Convective Capital Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $34,308,947Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactConvective Capital Fund I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $35.1M across 2 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $35.1M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
40 observations from 3 sources