Rice Park Capital is a Minneapolis based alternative investment firm with roots in real estate and structured products. Rice Park provides capital, industry expertise, and support to its partners in complex situations through its venture capital, fixed income, and real estate investment verticals. Nick Smith founded Rice Park Capital in 2018.
Rice Park Capital's investment strategy is to focus on early and mid-stage companies managed by founders and executive with positive experience operating in the real estate and financial services sectors. They look for companies they feel solve problems through technology and able to achieve scale and create barriers to entry for other companies in the sectors.
Their investment strategy has led them to invest in Realized, BlueMatch, Capacity, Blue Water, and Thinking Engines.
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Funded Companies
People
Brad Farrell
Senior Advisor
Brian Bispala
Senior Advisor
Damien Elias
Senior Advisor
Gene Ross
Senior Advisor
Jason Deleeuw
Managing Director
Nick Smith
Founder and Managing Partner
Shawn Kelly
COO