Rice Jones

What Rice Jones Amounts To

An acquisitions lab and alumni money.

At a Glance

Courses

Nothing published.

Club

Nothing published.

Money

The Rice Entrepreneurship Acquisitions Fund, whose alumni investment partners supply equity capital and subordinated debt so a buyer can meet a senior lender's requirement on an SBA or other acquisition loan. No amount is published, and the school is explicit that finding and qualifying the business is the buyer's own work first.

Conference

The Texas ETA Conference, an annual one-day event Rice Business hosts on campus, with panels built around the four phases of a search fund and structured networking for searchers, investors, lenders and operators.

Its Conference, Dated

Texas ETA Conference October 16, 2026, in Houston, Texas, with the way in and the price the host publishes.

What Else It Runs

• The Rice Entrepreneurship Acquisitions Lab, which the school says lets students and alumni "jump start their search for a business to buy" with access to mentors, professional advisors, debt financing, investors and a sounding board of peers.

Open to readers outside the school

• A public page on how the Acquisitions Fund's network of alumni and friends supplies the equity and subordinated debt a senior lender asks for, open to anyone.
• Success stories from the fund, each naming the buyer and the business bought, open to anyone rather than to enrolled students.

Where to Look

• The Rice Entrepreneurship Acquisitions Lab ↗
• The Acquisitions Fund's investment partners, who supply the equity a lender requires ↗
• Success stories from the Acquisitions Fund ↗
• The Texas ETA Conference, which Rice Business hosts ↗

Other Schools

The Intern & Job Board carries the programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.