{
  "id": 3974641,
  "title": "Yardstik Raises $30 Million to Monitor Workers After They’re Hired",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/yardstik-raises-30-million-to-monitor-workers-after-theyre-hired",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-28T13:58:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Ventureburn",
    "slug": "ventureburn",
    "url": "https://ventureburn.com/yardstik-raises-30-million-series-b-workforce-monitoring/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Yardstik, a Minneapolis-based company, has raised $30 million in Series B funding to monitor workers continuously after they are hired. This comes after the company announced raising a total of $65 million so far. The funding was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with participation from existing investors Rally Ventures, MissionOG, Crosslink Capital, Grotech Ventures, and Great North Ventures.\n\nYardstik aims to address the issue of workforce fraud, which can go unnoticed for up to a year after hiring. Traditional background checks only occur once, and there is almost no visibility into potential issues that may arise later. With AI making it easy to fake documents, the need for continuous monitoring has become crucial.\n\nThe company's \"Human Trust Platform\" offers three key areas of focus: fraud prevention, monitoring, and credential management. This includes tools like Detect AI™ to spot synthetic identities, payment fraud, and SSN anomalies, daily scans of driving records, government ban lists, and criminal records, and automated alerts for expiring licenses, insurance, or certifications.\n\nWith the new funding, Yardstik plans to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams to scale its platform and add more monitoring capabilities. The company also aims to expand beyond North America into the UK and continental Europe. CEO Andrew Johnson envisions continuous verification as the foundation of every trust program, rather than a premium add-on.",
  "summary": "Companies run background checks once, and that’s only on the first day. But fraud, licence expirations, and criminal issues don’t stop after hiring. To close that gap, Yardstik raises $30 The post Yardstik Raises $30 Million to Monitor Workers After They’re Hired appeared first on Ventureburn .",
  "key_points": [
    "Yardstik raises $30M in Series B funding to monitor workers post-hiring.",
    "Funding led by Harbert Growth Partners, participation from 6 investors.",
    "Company's Human Trust Platform focuses on fraud prevention, monitoring, credential management."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}