# Daniel J Rice IV

> Daniel J Rice IV is a seed investor at Rice Investment Group backing Analytics and CleanTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rice Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rice-investment-group)
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-rice-a567998/

Daniel J Rice IV is a seed investor at Rice Investment Group in Dallas focused on Analytics and CleanTech. Daniel Rice is the Chief Executive Officer at Rice Acquisition Corp II. Daniel Rice attended Bryant University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 50% |
| GreenTech | 1 | 50% |
| Sustainability | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series C | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Persefoni AI | Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides userswith a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions. | $23M | Series C | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Persefoni AI | Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides userswith a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions. | $3.5M | Seed |  |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NGP Energy Technology Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngp-energy-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TPG Rise Climate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tpg-rise) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rice Investment Group

VC Fund · Carnegie, United States

Rice Investment Group is a $200mm multi-strategy fund investing in all verticals of the oil and gas sector with a focus on partnering where our operational, technical, and strategic experience add value. Led by the former Rice Energy management team, the RIG team has a highly complementary and diverse skill-set.​RIG seeks to invest between $1mm- $40mm across the capital stack in the upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and energy technology sectors. RIG can invest passively alongside an existing sponsor-management team or actively as lead financial sponsor.

3 contacts available at Rice Investment Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel J Rice IV | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-j-rice-iv |
| Daniel Rice | Co-Founder,CEO and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-rice-4902 |
| Derek Rice | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-rice |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel J Rice IV invest in?

Daniel J Rice IV invests primarily in Analytics, CleanTech and GreenTech startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Daniel J Rice IV last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel J Rice IV closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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