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Forage

Forage is changing the world of career discovery and skill-building. We partner with leading companies to create online job simulations for college students to build skills, gain experience and better understand different career paths. Our free digital learning simulations simulate a 'day in the life' of a junior employee, giving students the chance to complete hypothetical tasks, learn from employees and understand which roles are aligned with their interests and skills. We believe 'talent is d

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Y Combinator
competitors
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2032

Forage is a mission-driven payments company that helps businesses accept government benefits through a single, unified API. Today, over 42 million Americans receive government assistance (ex: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) to buy groceries. Starting with enabling EBT SNAP online, Forage builds the financial infrastructure empowering businesses to serve these shoppers online.

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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4138

Forage is changing the world of career discovery and skill-building. We partner with leading companies to create online job simulations for college students to build skills, gain experience and better understand different career paths. Our free digital learning simulations simulate a 'day in the life' of a junior employee, giving students the chance to complete hypothetical tasks, learn from employees and understand which roles are aligned with their interests and skills. We believe 'talent is d

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High Signal interpretation

Forage is classified as HR and talent from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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HR and talent · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Lumi

match 63

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shared extracted concept terms: businesse, lead, companie; shared product terms: lead, companie, online, businesse; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hotplate

match 59

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shared extracted concept terms: businesse; shared product terms: chang, create, online, giving; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Headstart

match 59

Headstart (YC S17) uses Machine Learning technology to help employers identify the best-suited talent in the shortest period of time. We provide leading organisations with a solution designed to help them transition away from experience/qualification based screening and towards a more inclusive and effective process which considers personality, behaviours, strengths and motivations. In doing so, Headstart helps companies hire people truly aligned to their values, culture and exact job requiremen

shared extracted concept terms: lead; shared product terms: lead, companie, job, experience; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

StyleUp

match 49

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shared product terms: life, believe, discovery, job; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

CareerGenie

match 40

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shared product terms: create, job, career, talent

Defynance

match 32

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shared product terms: interest, free, student, career