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

Nothing published.

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 roster of the Acquisitions Fund's alumni investment partners, which is a readable list of who supplies the equity and subordinated debt a senior lender asks for.
• 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 ↗

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.