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Forage: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

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.

www.theforage.com LinkedIn San Francisco, United States 101-250 employees
Corporate Training E-Learning Education Employment Skill Assessment
Total raised
$34.3M
Rounds
2
Latest
Series B
Aug 2021

Forage has raised $34.3M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series B of $25.0M announced in Aug 2021.

That round is above the $1.5M median round size for Education companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Forage Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$34.3M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Series B
$25.0M in Aug 2021
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States

Latest funding round on record: Aug 2021.

Forage Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series B
$25.0M
Undisclosed round
$9.3M

Forage raised $9.3M in an undisclosed round announced in Sep 2020.

11 months later, a Series B of $25.0M was announced in Aug 2021.

Forage Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Thomas Brunskill
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Forage team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.

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Forage Funding Compared to Other Education Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
1,474
$1.5M
30,148
$7.5M
4,380
$31M

Forage's latest round of $25.0M is above the median round in Education. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Forage Funding FAQs

What does Forage do?

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.

How much funding has Forage raised?

Forage has raised $34.3M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series B of $25.0M announced in Aug 2021.

When did Forage last raise funding?

Forage's most recent funding round on record is a Series B of $25.0M, announced in Aug 2021.

Who is the CEO of Forage?

Thomas Brunskill is listed as CEO at Forage.

Where is Forage headquartered?

Forage is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How many employees does Forage have?

Forage is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does Forage's funding compare to other Education startups?

Forage's latest round of $25.0M is above the $1.5M median round size for Education companies on FundedIQ across 1,474 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Forage Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Forage is left off this page rather than filled in.

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