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.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Rice Investment Group invests in
Stages Rice Investment Group invests in
Countries Rice Investment Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$3.5M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Oil and Gas 5 (31%)
- Energy 4 (25%)
- Software 3 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (19%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Seed 3 (19%)
- Private Equity 2 (13%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 8 (50%)
- Canada 2 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel J Rice IV
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Daniel Rice
Co-Founder,CEO and Partner
|
Co-Founder,CEO and Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Derek Rice
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| EnerPure is a cleantech energy company; a company that recycles waste petroleum into a clean source of fuel and energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. | $35M / Private Equity / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| X2 Resources is a oil and gas company that targets multibillion-dollar opportunities across premier basins. | Seed / Apr 24, 2025 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Infinitum Electric is a motor technology company delivering lightweight and IoT-enabled electric motors. It is at the forefront of making electric motors more efficient, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive. Their disruptive motor and control products utilize their patent-pending Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and providebroad application across multiple industries. They work with global manufacturers and industrial OEMs to customize their technology for specific applications and market segments. | $35M / Series E / Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| Talus Renewables offers new pathways to chemicals, fertilizers, and fuels with its green ammonia production technology. | $22M / Series A / Nov 02, 2023 | ||
| Trinity Gas Storage offers tailored gas storage services to meet the needs of a wide range of potential gas storage customers. | Private Equity / Sep 11, 2023 | ||
| 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. | $50M / Series C / Aug 11, 2023 | ||
| Cold Bore Technology is a data acquisition service, specializing in digital downhole acoustic monitoring, the digitization of the surface frac spread, and digital adjacent well monitoring. It provides a digital twin visible on handheld devices on location and real-time access to frac data back at the headquarters.The company was founded in 2013and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. | $14M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 29, 2021 | ||
| 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. | $13.5M / Series A / Apr 15, 2021 | ||
| Umbrage is a digital craft studio focused on designing, developing, and delivering. Umbrage collaborates with its customers to deliver and scale solutions to complex business problems. The company has delivered and scaled customized software solutions to a variety of blue-collar industries, owing to its deep technical expertise and desire tointegrate with its clients. | $2M / Seed / Mar 23, 2021 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Rice Investment Group invest in?
Rice Investment Group invests primarily in Oil and Gas, Energy and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rice Investment Group invest in?
Rice Investment Group typically joins rounds of $2M–$3.5M at Seed and $2.3M–$22M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rice Investment Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rice Investment Group took part in.
How do I contact Rice Investment Group?
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Who are the partners at Rice Investment Group?
The team at Rice Investment Group includes Daniel J Rice IV (Partner), Daniel Rice (Co-Founder,CEO and Partner) and Derek Rice (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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