We optimize for the collective good and strive to improve the lives of as many people as possible. We build with dignity and consider the impact of our actions and decisions. We believe deeply in our mission and have a strong sense of duty to succeed on behalf of our customers.

We are all owners of Forage. We are biased towards action and accountability. We seek out problems and we solve them. We finish what we start and no task is beneath us. We take incremental steps to make Forage better tomorrow than it is today.

We value collaboration, diversity of background and thought, humility, and ideas over hierarchy. We celebrate others, admit our mistakes, assume positive intent, and invest in our people so that we can be our true selves and do our best work.

We are dedicated to building for the long-term. We fundamentally believe that our work has only just begun and that our most important work has yet to be done. We are naturally optimistic about the future, and are excited to help build a better and brighter tomorrow.

Forage is a mission-driven payments company that is helping merchants 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 merchants of all shapes and sizes to serve these shoppers online.

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FinTech

Government

Grocery

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Ofek Lavian

Bryan Wang

Victor Esteban Fimbres

Mindy Farnsworth, SHRM-CP

Jory Platt

Austin Koenig

Daniel Han

Colleen Griffin-Underhill

The founding team at Forage has a variety of previous experiences that they bring to the company. Sikhana, Newsela, and Noodle are all companies that the team has worked for in the past. The team is also educated, with a degree in Economics from the University of Southern California.

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