Founder Profile
Daniel Yanisse
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Daniel Yanisse?
Daniel Yanisse is a founder of Checkr, Inc., which was founded in 2014 with Jonathan Perichon.
- Company founded
- Checkr, Inc.
- Founded
- 2014
- Co-founders
- Jonathan Perichon
Background
Daniel Yanisse is a French-born software engineer. Before Checkr he worked as an engineer at Deliv, a same-day delivery startup, where slow manual background checks delayed courier onboarding.
Founding Story
Daniel Yanisse is the co-founder and CEO of Checkr. He started the company in 2014 with Jonathan Perichon after seeing at Deliv how long legacy background checks took. As CEO he led Checkr through Y Combinator, funding rounds that valued it at $2.2 billion (2019) and $4.6 billion (2021), the GoodHire (2022) and Truework (2025) acquisitions, a 32% layoff in 2024, and growth to more than $800 million in 2025 gross revenue. He is a vocal advocate of Fair Chance Hiring. Daniel Yanisse was born in 1989.
Sources
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- Checkr: Momentum accelerates (2025 revenue disclosure) (Checkr, Inc.)
- Checkr Year in Review 2025 (Checkr, Inc.)