Equilibrium

https://eq-cap.com/

Last activity: 29.12.2023

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Equilibrium innovates and manages sustainability-driven real asset investment strategies and product

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Location

United States, Oregon, Portland

Employees

11-50

Phone

+1 971-352-8430

Founded date

2008

Mentions in press and media 19

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Sep 7, 2023	The Week in AgriFoodTech: Toray’s $8bn foray into biomass tech, Paptic lands $25m, Israeli agrifoodtech heats up The Kitchen	This week, materials manufacturer Toray announced a mega-investment in cellulosic sugar and Finland’s Paptic secured funds to expand its sustainable materials portfolio. Meanwhile, Israeli agrifoodtech startups were all over the news this w...
Sep 5, 2023	Equilibrium & Bosch Growers submit winning bids to acquire AppHarvest’s KY greenhouse facilities	Beleaguered indoor farming company AppHarvest is seeing its four greenhouse facilities auctioned off after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Investment firm Equilibrium, a longtime backer of the company, submitted the only bid fo...
Jul 24, 2023	AppHarvest files Chapter 11 protection, plans to sell its Kentucky-based indoor farming facilities	Disclosure: AgFunder, the parent company of AgFunderNews, was an investor in indoor farming robotics company RootAI, which was acquired by AppHarvest in 2021. US-based indoor farming company AppHarvest has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy pr...
Jun 15, 2023	The Week in AgriFoodTech: HUNGRY bags $10m, USDA greenlights cultivated chicken labels, making leather from beer	Funding rounds continue to be slow and on the low side. Catering tech startup HUNGRY raised new capital, as did alt-meat startup Higher Steaks, which rebranded as Uncommon. In agtech, agribusiness platform Unnati Agri and alt-leather startu...
Apr 10, 2023	🎥 Revol Greens CEO: ‘Customers don’t care what technology you have, they care if it’s a better product’	The promise of a reliable supply of fresh, local produce with a pesticide-free positioning is alluring. But with controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startups dropping like flies, “jaundiced” investors are now laser-focused on models wi...
Mar 8, 2023	‘Technology is a means, not an end’ in farming: Key takeaways from Indoor Ag-Con 2023	According to dozens of attendees at this year’s Indoor Ag-Con, the biggest step indoor farming needs to take right now is towards more collaboration — with one another, with traditional field farmers, and with dedicated technology companies...
Jan 17, 2023	Equilibrium CEO Dave Chen Joins CEO Keynote Line-Up For Las Vegas 2023 Indoor Ag-Con	Equilibrium CEO Dave Chen to lead day two opening morning keynote at Indoor Ag-Con 2023 Equilibrium CEO Dave Chen will lead the day two keynote address for the 10th annual Indoor Ag-Con, February 27-28, 2023, at Caesars Forum, Las Vegas, NV...
Mar 17, 2022	The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m	Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri...
Jul 29, 2021	Brief: AppHarvest targets 12 indoor farms by 2025 following $91m Equilibrium Capital injection	AppHarvest has signed a financing agreement worth $91 million with sustainability-focused fund manager Equilibrium Capital. The deal comprises a construction loan intended to help AppHarvest complete a tech-enabled indoor tomato farm in Ric...
Jul 8, 2021	European pension managers go big for indoor ag as Equilibrium closes $1.1bn CEA fund	Equilibrium Capital, a US-based private sustainable finance and ESG funds manager, has closed its second indoor ag fund on just over $1 billion – well beyond its $500 million target. Controlled Environment Foods Fund II (CEFF II) raised $1....
Nov 4, 2020	The three-legged stool: A feasibility analysis for starting a CEA farm	Editor’s note: Peter Tasgal is a strategic consultant to the food and agriculture industries and co-founder of the Farmbook Project, based in Boston, US. The views expressed in this guest article do not necessarily represent those of AFN. C...
Oct 7, 2020	With $68m in fresh funding, Revol Greens plans to build the world’s largest indoor farm	The controlled environment agriculture (CEA) space appears to be in a race, with startups jostling to see which can build the biggest facility or supply the most produce. Owatonna, Minnesota-based Revol Greens is throwing its hat in the rin...
Oct 1, 2020	CEA startup AppHarvest to go public, expects $475m funding at $1bn valuation	US controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup AppHarvest has announced a merger with NASDAQ-listed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Novus Capital, enabling it to go public. The deal is slated to bring in $475 million in gros...
Aug 7, 2020	AppHarvest raises $28m as Martha Stewart & Impossible Foods’ CFO join board	High-tech greenhouse startup AppHarvest has closed a $28 million Series C funding, added some big names to its board, and created a new chief people officer position. Narya, the new venture capital firm co-founded by author of best-selling ...
Aug 7, 2020	AppHarvest raises $28m as Martha Stewart & Impossible Foods’ CFO join board	High-tech greenhouse startup AppHarvest has closed a $28 million Series C funding round, added some big names to its board, and created a new chief people officer position. Narya, the new venture capital firm co-founded by author of best-se...
Jul 16, 2020	Стартапы в форме B-Corp: для кого и зачем	В этой заметке разберемся, почему все больше компаний в США учреждается в форме B-Corp, а инвесторы несут в них все больше денег. 4 4 комментария Форум 718 просмотров Что это за зверь Это обычная корпорация, учрежденная с дополнительной цел...
Sep 26, 2019	Indoor AgTech Landscape: 1,000+ companies innovating inside	Editor’s Note: Chris Taylor is a senior consultant on The Mixing Bowl team and has spent more than 20 years on global IT strategy and development innovation in manufacturing, design and healthcare, focusing most recently on indoor agtech. M...
	Inside Indoor AgTech	Chris Taylor and Michael Rose provide a deep-dive analysis of Indoor Agriculture, tracking more than 1,000 companies to capture the technology ecosystem of controlled-environment agriculture: vertical farms, greenhouses, urban farms, plant ...

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FAQ about Equilibrium

When was Equilibrium founded?

Equilibrium was founded in 2008.

What has the press written about Equilibrium?

Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning Equilibrium, among them “The Week in AgriFoodTech: Toray’s $8bn foray into biomass tech, Paptic lands $25m, Israeli agrifoodtech heats up The Kitchen” (Sep 7, 2023) and “Equilibrium & Bosch Growers submit winning bids to acquire AppHarvest’s KY greenhouse facilities” (Sep 5, 2023).

Is Equilibrium still active?

Yes, Equilibrium is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 29, 2023.