- conflicts or gaps
- [{"name_collision": {"value": "Unrelated YC S21 company also named Forage (joinforage.com) builds SNAP/EBT payments infrastructure; frequently causes search and database conflation.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage-2", "https://www.joinforage.com/newsroom/introducing-the-new-forage"]}, "founded_year_discrepancy": {"value": "Primary sources cite 2017; Tracxn cites 2014; EdTechReview cites 2016.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forage/__TMUmwyI5KEDaud3xqc1CdL9dGjy3T1YySipFGMfkESc", "https://www.edtechreview.in/news/insidesherpa-raises-9-3-million-for-virtual-work-experience-rebrands-to-forage/"]}, "seed_round_amount_discrepancy": {"value": "Global Venturing and company posts cite $1.7M seed (2019); Australian Financial Review reports $2.5M round led by Transition Level Investments (Oct 2019).", "source_urls": ["https://globalventuring.com/university/forage-finds-series-b-investors/", "https://www.afr.com/technology/steve-baxter-s-transition-level-investments-backs-insidesherpa-20191002-p52x3e"]}, "employee_count_discrepancy": {"value": "YC lists 65 employees; Tracxn lists 1,347 (Mar 2026) — latter likely unreliable due to name collision.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage/jobs", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forage/__TMUmwyI5KEDaud3xqc1CdL9dGjy3T1YySipFGMfkESc"]}, "student_user_count_discrepancy": {"value": "Sources cite 1M (Sep 2020), 1.8M pandemic signups (Aug 2021), 4M+ community (YC 2024), ~5M (Seramount profile), and >10M users (founder LinkedIn) — metrics may mix cumulative enrollments vs. active community.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/forage-formerly-insidesherpa-raises-9-3-million-series-a-for-virtual-work-experiences/", "https://www.avcj.com/avcj/news/3024800/australias-blackbird-leads-series-b-for-education-start-up", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage", "https://seramount.com/person/tom-brunskill/"]}, "fourth_funding_round_undocumented": {"value": "Tracxn reports 4 total rounds including 2 seed rounds; only 3 rounds with disclosed amounts found in press.", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forage/__TMUmwyI5KEDaud3xqc1CdL9dGjy3T1YySipFGMfkESc/funding-and-investors", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/forage-formerly-insidesherpa-raises-9-3-million-series-a-for-virtual-work-experiences/"]}, "acquisition_price_undisclosed": {"value": "EAB press release does not disclose purchase price or terms.", "source_urls": ["https://eab.com/about/newsroom/press/eab-acquires-forage/"]}, "tracxn_news_contamination": {"value": "Tracxn news feed for this profile includes SNAP/EBT payment stories belonging to the unrelated fintech Forage.", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forage/__TMUmwyI5KEDaud3xqc1CdL9dGjy3T1YySipFGMfkESc", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage-2"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://eab.com/about/newsroom/press/eab-acquires-forage/", "https://foundertrace.com/companies/forage-68514998/", "https://globalventuring.com/university/forage-finds-series-b-investors/", "https://lsvp.com/stories/pre-skilling-the-world-forages-series-b/", "https://seramount.com/person/tom-brunskill/", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/forage-formerly-insidesherpa-raises-9-3-million-series-a-for-virtual-work-experiences/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forage/__TMUmwyI5KEDaud3xqc1CdL9dGjy3T1YySipFGMfkESc", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/forage/__TMUmwyI5KEDaud3xqc1CdL9dGjy3T1YySipFGMfkESc/funding-and-investors", "https://www.afr.com/technology/steve-baxter-s-transition-level-investments-backs-insidesherpa-20191002-p52x3e", "https://www.avcj.com/avcj/news/3024800/australias-blackbird-leads-series-b-for-education-start-up", "https://www.edtechreview.in/news/insidesherpa-raises-9-3-million-for-virtual-work-experience-rebrands-to-forage/", "https://www.joinforage.com/newsroom/introducing-the-new-forage", "https://www.jumpstartmag.com/insidesherpa-rebrands-to-forage-raises-us9-3m-series-a/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pearson-teams-up-with-forage-to-offer-virtual-job-simulations-to-millions-of-college-students-through-leading-higher-ed-products-301988316.html", "https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/business/blackbird-backed-job-simulations-edtech-forage-exits-to-us-merger/", "https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/funding/workplace-skills-edtech-forage-raises-35-million-series-b/", "https://www.theforage.com/simulations", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage-2", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forage/jobs"]