Daniel Yanisse

Daniel Yanisse possesses a strong background in software engineering and fast-paced startup operations. His critical formative experience occurred while working as a software engineer at the delivery startup Deliv, alongside Jonathan Perichon. This highly specific background managing the logistical onboarding of thousands of gig-economy drivers exposed him directly to the immense, agonizing bottleneck of manual background checks, giving him the exact operational blueprint needed to build Checkr.

Daniel Yanisse is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Checkr, Inc. While working at Deliv in 2013, Yanisse was shocked to discover that onboarding a delivery driver took weeks because legacy background check companies relied on manual paper courthouse searches. In 2014, alongside Jonathan Perichon, Yanisse founded Checkr in San Francisco to automate background screening via modern APIs. Under Yanisse's visionary, mission-driven leadership, Checkr grew into a $5.0 billion technology leader generating over $300 million in annual revenue, powering screening for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. Yanisse emerged as a national champion of Fair Chance Hiring, helping over 1.5 million individuals with prior arrest records secure employment. Yanisse's principled, mission-driven leadership made him one of the most respected enterprise software founders in Silicon Valley. Pairing hard-nosed technical execution with a profound commitment to criminal justice reform, Yanisse steered Checkr from a two-person YC startup into a $5.0 billion technology leader past $300M ARR, championing Fair Chance Hiring to unlock life-changing economic mobility for over 1.5 million individuals with past arrest records.