# Rice Investment Group

> Rice Investment Group is a VC fund in Carnegie backing Oil and Gas and Energy. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carnegie, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rice-investment-group/?originalSubdomain=in
- Website: https://www.riceinvestmentgroup.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $2.3M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oil and Gas | 4 | 29% |
| Energy | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| Analytics | 2 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel J Rice IV | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-j-rice-iv |
| Daniel Rice | Co-Founder,CEO and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-rice-4902 |
| Derek Rice | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-rice |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| X2 Resources | X2 Resources is a oil and gas company that targets multibillion-dollar opportunities across premier basins. |  | Seed | Apr 24, 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. | $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. | $23M | Series C | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Infinitum | 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 | 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 | 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 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. | $50M | Series C | Aug 11, 2023 |  |
| Cold Bore Technology | 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 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. | $13.5M | Series A | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Umbrage | 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 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NGP Energy Technology Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngp-energy-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TPG Rise Climate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tpg-rise) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain & Company Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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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 Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rice Investment Group's check size?

Rice Investment Group typically joins rounds of $2M–$3.5M at Seed and $2.3M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rice Investment Group participates 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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