David Head is CEO of Endorsed, a San Francisco identity verification startup that uses AI to screen candidates. That task includes detecting signs of potential imposters and fraudsters, which these days includes a torrent of North Korean operatives posing as IT workers, who over the past several years have snuck into hundreds of U.S. companies.
Endorsed, which Head co-founded with CTO Kevin Fu, has analyzed more than 11 million job applications for fraud and is backed by Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures, Pioneer Fund, and angels including Micah Smurthwaite, said Head. The firm analyzed a sample of 175,000 job applications for all role types in 2026 across U.S. companies ranging from three to 25,000+ employees, where the application was flagged as having mid-to high-risk patterns associated with North Korean IT worker schemes. If you aren’t aware, men from the Democratic People’s…
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