Will Wang

Will Wang is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Clova, an AI creative studio backed by Founders, Inc. that generates images, videos, and designs from a conversational interface.⁶⁴ Before Clova, he founded DashBill, a fraternity membership and dues management platform that processed over $2 million in payments and served more than 2,500 users before winding down in January 2025.¹⁴ He attended the University of California, Riverside, where he was elected student body president before going full-time on his first company.²

Early life and education

Wang attended Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California.⁵ He enrolled at the University of California, Riverside, earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from the School of Business.² At UCR, he joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity, serving as chapter treasurer — a role that left him frustrated with the cumbersome process of collecting membership dues and gave him the idea for DashBill.¹ He was later elected Kappa Sigma chapter president for the 2020–21 academic year.¹

Wang served as Vice President of Finance for the Associated Students of UC Riverside (ASUCR), overseeing a $1.2 million student organization budget.¹ He was subsequently elected ASUCR Student Body President for the 2021–22 academic year.² In June 2022, he was selected as commencement speaker for the UCR School of Business graduation ceremony.²

Wang sold corn nuts in middle school in 2013, then moved into sneaker reselling and proxy IP address resale by 2016.⁵ He uploaded his first YouTube video in 2017, teaching himself Final Cut Pro by watching tutorials — a skill he later applied to freelance videography work and to documenting his own companies.¹¹⁰

DashBill

Wang founded DashBill in December 2019 while still at UCR.⁷ The product gave fraternities an all-in-one platform to charge dues, create budgets, manage rush processes, and send member communications — all tasks Wang had found difficult to manage as his chapter's treasurer.⁷ He received a $3,000 NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to conduct customer interviews and validate product-market fit, and was supported by UCR's Launchpad entrepreneurship program.¹

In just over five years, DashBill processed over $2 million in payments and served more than 2,500 users.¹⁴ Wang ran the company while simultaneously holding ASUCR leadership roles, making YouTube videos, and working as a freelance videographer; clients included UC Riverside, the City of Riverside, and Twitch co-founder Justin Kan.¹⁴ He graduated in 2022 and went full-time on DashBill, relocating to Las Vegas in 2023 to cut operating costs and then to San Francisco in 2024.⁵ DashBill was wound down in January 2025 when Wang shifted focus to Clova.¹⁴

Clova

Wang co-founded Clova in January 2025 alongside Ryan Bailey and Gyan Prakash.⁴ The company was accepted into Founders, Inc., the Fort Mason-based early-stage firm.³

Clova launched publicly in May 2025, with Wang announcing it on X as "Cursor for video editing" — a tool for generating a full video edit from a simple text prompt.⁹ Wang documented the launch in a YouTube video titled "My startup went viral."¹¹

By early 2026, Clova had expanded from its original video editing focus into a broader AI creative suite. The product offered AI image generation, AI video generation, image-to-video conversion, a brand-consistency feature for defining and reusing a visual identity across content, and a built-in timeline editor.⁶ A March 2026 review in the AI Lab newsletter identified the direct timeline editing and brand-consistency feature as the two attributes that distinguished Clova from competing AI creative tools, and noted that the brand-consistency capability was not prominently featured in the product's own marketing.¹³

YouTube and online presence

Wang has maintained a YouTube channel under the name Will Wang since 2017, with over 15,000 subscribers.¹⁴¹⁰ His videos document the process of building companies — fundraising, co-founder dynamics, and product launches — including "Fundraising for my startup" and "My startup went viral."¹²¹¹ On X he posts at @iamwilliamwang; his pinned tweet describes him as "a filmmaker building an AI video startup."⁸

References

1. Here's the Buzz on: William Wang — UC Riverside School of Business(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
2. UC Riverside School of Business Commencement Program 2022(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
3. Will Wang — Founders, Inc.(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
4. Clova — Founders, Inc. Portfolio(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
5. Will Wang — Personal Website