# Justin Intal

> Justin Intal is a Forage co-founder and its founding CEO. He helped shift the company from a grocery savings app to infrastructure for online SNAP EBT payments, informed by his own experience using benefits and conversations with shoppers and merchants. He left Forage in spring 2022; Flex Capital announced him as a new venture partner in October 2025.

- **Role:** Venture Partner at Flex Capital (announced October 2025); Co-Founder and former founding CEO of Forage
- **Organizations:** Forage, Flex Capital
- **Education:** University of Southern California
- **Known for:** Co-founded Forage and served as founding CEO., Helped redirect Forage from grocery savings to online EBT payment infrastructure., Built a grocery advice community reported to include more than 10,000 parents.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Operated Forage Grocery, a consumer app focused on grocery savings.
- **2020** — Forage appeared in Envision’s summer cohort; its payments pivot took shape after work with The Hub on the Hill.
- **2021** — Forage participated in Y Combinator’s summer batch; Intal joined an October webinar on online SNAP access in New York.
- **2022** — Publicly discussed Forage’s payments and compliance work; left the company in spring 2022.
- **2024** — Discussed government-facing technology possibilities with other YC founders, as reported in November.
- **2025** — Flex Capital named Intal among new venture partners in its October 7 Q3 newsletter.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Forage and served as founding CEO.
- Helped redirect Forage from grocery savings to online EBT payment infrastructure.
- Built a grocery advice community reported to include more than 10,000 parents.
- Joined Flex Capital’s venture partner network, announced in October 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — A publicly indexed February 6 court filing records acknowledgment of service in Justin Intal v. Forage Technology Corporation et al., case CGC-25-627665; this procedural record establishes neither an outcome nor the merits of any claim.
- **2025-10** — Flex Capital introduced Intal as one of its new venture partners helping with sourcing and diligence.
- **2024-11** — Intal described participating in a YC founder group chat considering government-facing innovation.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jintal/

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Last updated: 2026-10-14