The heat wave made the case more starkly than could any investment pitch deck.
In their offices in Portland, the team at Equilibrium Capital was putting the finishing touches on the real assets manager’s second greenhouse agriculture fund just as the temperature in the Oregon city hit a record-shattering 116 degrees. The Controlled Environment Foods Fund II is itself a record-breaker as Equilibrium’s first billion-dollar fund.
It is difficult not to take note of the amount of investment capital flowing into private greenhouse vegetable and vertical farming operations these days. Why is this a trendy investment area, and what opportunities do investors see in these markets?
Equilibrium plans to invest more than $110 million to back its portfolio company Revol Greens, as it expands into Texas through a four-phase construction of what it says will be the world’s largest indoor lettuce facility.
Revol Greens, a Minnesota-based producer of greenhouse lettuce, has plans to locate a new a manufacturing operation in Temple, Texas.
Understanding social impact is critically important to operational success and investor returns. In this article, Equilibrium summarizes its thinking around reporting on the human aspect of the firm’s Sustainability Framework 2.1.
Threemile Canyon Farms, Oregon’s largest dairy boasting 33,000 dairy cows, 93,000 acres and 300 full-time workers provided sustainability advice to Wisconsin dairy farmers.
Over the past several weeks at five hearings around the state, Oregonians have heard a lot about House Bill 2020, a bill that would create an economy-wide cap-and-invest program.
Equilibrium Capital Group, a sustainability-driven real asset investor, has partnered with Houweling’s Group in an equity investment in Houweling’s advanced technology greenhouse facilities.
This is the year impact investing gets real. Really. That’s the thread connecting a half-dozen or so forecasts from Equilibrium Capital’s Dave Chen, who returned to ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast for a New Year’s check-in on the progress of the “institutional shift” in impact investing.
Dave Chen is a glass half-full sort of person, which is probably to be expected of a man who runs a multi-billion dollar investment firm.