Convective Capital

Convective Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, California, that invests in technology companies focused on preventing and mitigating wildfire-related impacts.

William Clerico

Managing Partner

Anukool Lakhina Ph.D

Partner

Jay Ribakove

Principal

Ilya Volodarsky

Partner

Past deals in Geospatial

Overstory

Series A in 2023
Overstory is a vegetation management software company that serves electric utilities. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with remote sensing from satellite and aerial imagery to monitor vegetation near power corridors, assess wildfire risks, and optimize resource use. By prioritizing vegetation risks before they materialize, Overstory helps utilities prevent outages, reduce wildfire risk, and improve reliability and safety across service areas, contributing to a safer, more resilient grid.

Fire Aside

Seed Round in 2023
Fire Aside, established in 2019 and headquartered in San Anselmo, California, specializes in software solutions aimed at enhancing wildfire safety for communities. Their platform assesses and improves fire safety by providing personalized reports and recommendations to residents, helping them understand and mitigate risks. The company's software also offers analytics dashboards to fire agencies and other groups, enabling them to manage vegetation and structural data at the individual parcel level, and adapt to wildfire threats, thereby reducing property and community risks.

Pano

Series A in 2023
Pano specializes in fire detection technology, offering hardware and software solutions for professionals. It uses AI-powered cameras and satellite imagery to monitor wildfire threats in real-time, benefiting government agencies, utilities, insurers, and private landowners.

Overstory

Seed Round in 2022
Overstory is a vegetation management software company that serves electric utilities. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with remote sensing from satellite and aerial imagery to monitor vegetation near power corridors, assess wildfire risks, and optimize resource use. By prioritizing vegetation risks before they materialize, Overstory helps utilities prevent outages, reduce wildfire risk, and improve reliability and safety across service areas, contributing to a safer, more resilient grid.

Treeswift

Seed Round in 2022
Treeswift designs robotics and machine learning driven solutions for forestry and vegetation management. The company develops a vegetation and asset management system that delivers large-scale, precise data and analyses. Its backpack and vehicle-mounted sensors collect imagery and LiDAR during patrols and translate that data into actionable analytics and 360-degree field context for encroachment, strike potential, and failure risk through its software platform, serving vegetation management professionals, arborists, and tree crews. This enables users to anticipate and prevent power outages and other natural mishaps by informing maintenance decisions and risk assessments.
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