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    Why This Startup Is Hiring Ex-Offenders— and Thinks You Should Too

    by L.B. May 23, 2018 2 minutes
    Beyond Bars Checkr, a background-check startup with $150 million in funding, is filling its San Francisco office with hires who have criminal records.

    For the founder of a hot San Francisco startup with $150 million in venture funding, Daniel Yanisse has an unusual goal: By the end of this year, he wants 5 percent of his workforce to be ex-offenders.

    When Yanisse launched his tech-enabled background-check company Checkr, in 2014,

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