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Media has always constituted a core focus for Forest Road. The media investment team leverages their experience operating investments in the sector to provide holistic solutions at every level of the TMT value chain. Between the media sector’s growing inefficiencies and the team’s ability to add value given history in the field, they underwrite deals through the lens of downside protection while prioritizing equity upside.

Media

The renewable energy investment team explores opportunities across multiple industry sectors – including solar, energy storage, hydrogen, carbon capture, renewable natural gas, and more – with a mission of accelerating the energy transition by designing efficient, flexible, and creative capital solutions to decarbonize our future. The team’s background in power markets, tax equity finance, and distressed credit, coupled with a proprietary sourcing strategy, enables them to package unique and attractive deals.

Renewable Energy

The digital assets investment team utilizes a thesis-driven and flexible mandate to provide holistic and diversified exposure to the digital assets ecosystem. The strategy employs direct investments, external fund investments, and a liquid trading strategy.

Digital Assets

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Vertical Entertainment is an award-winning global independent distributor that provides its filmmakers with a suite of physical and digital media distribution options, as well as full-service marketing and sales services. Vertical has amassed a library of 400+ titles and partners with top SVOD and AVOD streaming companies to monetize content. Forest Road has a controlling stake in Vertical that also enables Vertical to provide its clients with financing solutions.

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 Vertical Entertainment

TPC provides multi-faceted financial solutions for the media & entertainment sector, tailored to each specific project. They combine exceptional lending, servicing, brokerage, and accounting capabilities, giving clients everything they need to turn ideas into reality. Forest Road acquired a controlling stake in TPC in 2021, representing a combination of both companies' foundational businesses in TMT investing.

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Forest Road Securities (FRS), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Forest Road Company, provides M&A and capital markets solutions to innovative companies in the media, renewable energy, digital assets, and consumer sectors.

Forest Road Securities

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Forest Road Acquisition Corp. (FRX) leverages Forest Road's corporate-sponsored SPACs and a genuine long-term partnership approach to take great private companies into the public markets. With two SPAC IPOs and one closed business combination, FRX is currently identifying businesses in the technology, media, telecommunications, and consumer (TMTC) industries.

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Forest Road Acquisition Corp.

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Forest Road has worked closely with Yale since its inception, offering TMT debt financing solutions that allow Yale to focus on film production and to bring their vision to life. In addition to collaborating on dozens of films, Forest Road funded a corporate facility to help to accelerate the company's growth and build out their platform.

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Yale Productions

MATTE is a 360° full-service creative studio at the convergence of hype, storytelling, and design. The company brings people together to inspire new ways of engaging, to provoke long term progress and to entertain audiences around the world, while helping forward-thinking brands and institutions nimbly and truly do the same. The studio capabilities range from strategic ideation all the way through full-scale production and execution. Matte powers Forest Road’s branding, digital media, and creative initiatives, and Forest Road is a minority owner in and debt financier for Matte.

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MATTE

Cherry Street Energy is a leading renewable energy company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, that develops, finances, owns, and operates solar assets. Cherry Street develops and curates projects at zero cost, offering highly competitive energy rates to its MUSH and C&I partners to reduce their carbon footprint and achieve their ESG and sustainability goals. Forest Road invested in Cherry Street in 2021 to help to grow and scale their platform, as well as to develop new solar energy projects.

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Green Street Power Partners is a leading renewable energy developer headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut that develops, owns, and operates solar assets. GSPP specializes in the development of projects for businesses, schools, non-profits, and municipalities as well as large community solar programs in partnership with local utilities across North America. 
"We have successfully transacted with FRC on two individual development loans to help expedite and grow our late-stage development pipeline. FRC took the time on the front end to understand our business which helped the transaction process run smoothly and efficiently.”

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Green Street Power Partners

Pathway Power is a utility-scale solar and battery storage developer with a best-in-class, founder-led management team who led the North America efforts for BayWa Renewables. Pathway Power has built a broad geographic footprint across North America and a deep network of relationships across the renewable energy value chain. “Our partnership with Forest Road has been integral to our early success. Their flexibility, commitment to execution and overall professionalism have put us in a position to hit the ground running.”

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Pathway Power

Successful development executed by management

Morpho Energy is a solar development platform focused on developing C&I projects for institutional REITs. Founded in 2020 by tenured executives in the energy space, Morpho is leveraging the experience and success its founders have previously achieved in the high-growth utility market and applying it to the massive commercial real estate market.

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Morpho Energy

Holocene Clean Energy is a utility-scale and distributed generation renewable energy company headquartered in Raleigh, NC that develops, owns, and operates solar assets. Holocene’s expertise in working with municipal and cooperative grids in the South and Mid-Atlantic regions allows them to pursue unique interconnection strategies for mid-sized development opportunities. “We worked side-by-side with the Forest Road team through due diligence, documentation, and closing. Each party shared a goal, and we closed inside our target date."

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Holocene

Yuga Labs is a Web3 company that aims to shape the industry through storytelling, experiences, and community. Yuga Labs owns some of the most coveted NFT brands, including Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and Meebits. The company also recently launched APECoin, a token to power its upcoming metaverse game. By combining top-tier IP, digital asset expertise, and a strong focus on brand building, Yuga Labs has become a premier Web3 media and entertainment company. Forest Road Company became a passive investor through their March 2022 seed round that included a16z, Animoca Brands, LionTree, Google, and Adidas, among others.

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Yuga Labs

Community-created projects with the Ape IP

Levain is an NYC-based bakery and household name founded in 1995 with 10 retail locations in NYC, the Hamptons, Boston, and DC. Levain is famous for its premium 6-ounce cookies, sold through its retail storefronts and budding e-commerce platform. This “NY institution that belongs in any neighborhood” offers a differentiated product experience with a personal touch and is quickly expanding across the country to great fanfare. Forest Road is a minority investor in Levain Bakery. 

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Levain Bakery

Dame is the largest, digitally native sexual wellness brand and the authority on the female perspective in the category. The company gained traction in 2016 after the first (and most successful) Kickstarter for a sex toy. Dame is also well-known for its 2019 triumph in suing the NYC Transit Authority for discrimination in advertising. Led by CEO Alexandra Fine, Dame has since expanded its product portfolio to include over 25 products sold within a sexual wellness ecosystem that includes a community framework for customers, medical professionals, and more, as well as content such as owned media, paid course, and partnerships. Forest Road is a minority investor in Dame Products. 

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