Fama Technologies expands global footprint with new leadership and localized EU data storage. Fama announces two new executives and the launch of a new data center in the EU, deepening its commitment to the UK and EU markets. Sep 17, 2026 LOS ANGELES, California - September 17, 2026 - Fama Technologies, Inc., the AI-native platform for online background and behavioral screening, today announced two additions to its leadership team and the launch of a new data center in the EU, a combined investment that deepens the company's commitment to the UK and EU markets. The moves arrive as the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rolls out expanded non-financial misconduct rules, raising the bar for how regulated firms screen and monitor employee behavior. "The modern workplace has never been more complicated: a rapidly shifting regulatory landscape, changing workplace demographics, and more data than any team can make sense of alone," said Ben Mones, Founder and CEO of Fama. "By investing in both go-to-market and the infrastructure to meet customers where the rules are changing fastest, we're not just keeping pace with compliance, we're turning that complexity into a clearer, more confident hiring experience for every organization we serve." New EU localized data storage center. Fama is opening a new data storage center on AWS infrastructure in the EU, ensuring that personal data collected on behalf of EU customers stays within EU borders. For organizations navigating GDPR and country-specific data residency requirements, this represents a continued commitment to privacy-by-design and compliance readiness built directly into Fama products, so there is one less thing standing between a growing company and the confidence to hire well, everywhere it operates. "Increasingly we are seeing that our European customers want to keep screening data in-region to comply with local law," said Brendten Eickstaedt, CTO at Fama. "Hosting in the EU lets our EU customers meet that bar without changing how they work with Fama. This means we can offer a globally unified customer experience while providing jurisdictionally relevant data storage." New leadership investments to fuel go to market. Fama also announced two additions to its executive team. Kev Stone joins as General Manager of EMEA, bringing nearly 20 years of experience in the background screening industry. Most recently Director of Sales & Marketing EMEA at Accurate Background, Stone also held senior regional leadership roles at ADP, HireRight, and Kroll. Based in the UK, he will lead Fama's strategy across the region as the company scales its European presence. Alexandra Yndo joins as VP of Marketing. She previously led global marketing at TrustArc, a privacy, risk, and compliance software company, where she built and scaled the marketing organization spanning demand generation, product marketing, and brand. Yndo brings nearly two decades of B2B marketing leadership, including senior roles at Corel and Mattersight, to Fama's go-to-market strategy as the company expands internationally. About Fama. Fama is a talent screening solution that helps employers identify candidate or employee behaviors that create risk for their organizations. For today's digitally connected workforce, risks often appear online first. Fama's AI-native platform analyzes text, images, and video across a person's social media and online presence to surface workplace-relevant behavior risk signals. Its solution is compliant with the FCRA, GDPR & AI privacy frameworks and can be configured to match each company's code of conduct. Founded in 2015, Fama is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Fama is backed by some of the world's leading investors and have raised more than $30M. Media contact. Alexandra Yndo [email protected]

Fama becomes the first to screen YouTube for misconduct at scale. Fama, the leading provider of social media screening for employers, today announced the launch of comprehensive YouTube screening, expanding its ability to surface workplace misconduct across the world's largest video platform. With more than 2.9 billion active users and over 500 hours of video uploaded every minute, YouTube represents the most extensive collection of user-generated video content online. Until now, employers have had no scalable, compliant way to review public YouTube content for misconduct risk. Fama's new YouTube capabilities allow organizations to identify eight types of workplace misconduct including threats, violence, harassment, and intolerance within both full-length videos and Shorts. From 30 second to 9-hour videos, Fama uses advanced AI models trained to understand context and Fama translates an otherwise unsearchable sea of content into structured workplace misconduct insights for hiring and ongoing talent management. "In less than five years, 75% of the global workforce will be digital natives," said Ben Mones, CEO of Fama. "This generation learns, communicates, and builds community online and much of that happens through video. As the way people express themselves evolves, so must the way organizations understand risk and reputation. Expanding Fama's coverage to YouTube gives employers the visibility to keep pace with a workforce that lives on video." "Our solution can analyze thousands of hours of public video content in minutes," said Brendten Eickstaedt, CTO of Fama. "The challenge wasn't just scale, it was context. We engineered a multilayered system that understands tone and context while filtering out protected-class information. The result is high-volume insight that's fair, accurate, and compliant." Compliance, Accuracy, and comprehensive coverage. * Compliant by design: Fama screens only publicly available content and aligns with FCRA, EEOC, PIPEDA, and GDPR. * Accuracy through AI + human review: More than 95% accurate across eight categories of workplace misconduct. * Comprehensive coverage: YouTube joins Fama's existing video sources TikTok and Instagram Reels, creating the industry's most complete view of public misconduct in video. About Fama. Fama makes hiring great people easy. Our modern candidate screening solutions use online signals to identify candidate fit. We highlight professional attributes such as creativity, innovation, and problem solving while also surfacing costly misconduct such as violence, harassment, and fraud. We help organizations answer the big question: how might a candidate act around coworkers or customers when they join? Talent teams use Fama to improve candidate quality and employee retention, create safe and inclusive workplaces, and place the right leadership for their organizations. Fama is compliant with the FCRA, GDPR, and integrates into a wide range of HRIS, ATS, and background screening solutions. Founded in 2015, Fama is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. We're backed by some of the world's leading investors, and have raised more than $30M. Learn why over 3,600 companies trust Fama at www.fama.io.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - August 12, 2025 - Fama Technologies, the leader in online misconduct screening, today announced the launch of Pulse Employee Screening, a powerful new capability that enables HR and compliance leaders to proactively identify emerging risks in their workforce before they escalate into major incidents, lawsuits, or headlines.