Forage

About

Forage works with the world’s top employers to create job simulations for students to build career skills, visibility, and confidence.

San Francisco,California,United States
51 - 100

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Series B
Last Funding Money Raised: $25M
Industries: Corporate Training,E-Learning,Education,Employment,Skill Assessment
Founded date: Jan 1, 2017
Number Of Employee: 51 - 100
Operating Status: Active
Also Known As: InsideSherpa

Forage (formerly InsideSherpa) partners with leading companies to deliver free open-access training courses for candidates. Any candidate can enroll in the company-backed courses to build career skills, visibility, and experience. The platform runs on various virtual training courses including with KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, GE, BCG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citi, Deloitte, Accenture, and others. There are +1 million students in the Forage ecosystem.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

7

$36.05M

Forage has raised a total of $36.05M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 20, 2021 from a Series B round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Aug 20, 2021	Series B	$25M	8	Blackbird Ventures	—	Detail
Sep 17, 2020	Series A	$9.30M	1	Lightspeed Venture Partners	—	Detail
May 7, 2019	Seed	$1.60M	2	—	—	Detail
Mar 15, 2019	Seed	—	2	—	—	Detail
Jan 18, 2019	Seed	$150K	2	Y Combinator	—	Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

4

14

Forage is funded by 14 investors. Blackbird Ventures and Y Combinator are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Blackbird Ventures	Yes	Series B
Y Combinator	Yes	Seed
H2 Ventures	Yes	Seed
Gaingels	—	Series B
Cap Table Coalition	—	Series B
Citi Ventures	—	Series B
ETF@JFFLabs	—	Series B
FundersClub	—	Series B
Lightspeed Venture Partners	—	Series B
Telstra Ventures	—	Series B