Checkr

Checkr provides background screening and verification through an API-first platform that combines automation with human review. It began by serving on-demand and technology employers that needed to screen large numbers of workers quickly, and now positions itself as a verification platform for hiring, mortgage lending, tenant screening and identity checks, used by more than 140,000 customers. Daniel Yanisse, the chief executive, and Jonathan Perichon founded the company in San Francisco in 2014, and it went through Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch.

Accel, through partner Rich Wong, invested at the Series A. In April 2018 Checkr raised a $100 million Series C led by funds and accounts managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, with existing investors Accel and Y Combinator participating. A $160 million Series D followed in September 2019, again led by T. Rowe Price and joined by BOND, Coatue, Accel, Y Combinator and IVP; the company then cited a $2.2 billion valuation. In September 2021 Checkr announced a $250 million Series E led by Durable Capital Partners at a $4.6 billion valuation, with new investors Fidelity Management and Research Company and Franklin Templeton and participation from BOND, Khosla Ventures, IVP, T. Rowe Price, Coatue, Accel and Y Combinator. That brought total funding to $550 million. Form D filings by Checkr, Inc. match these rounds, and later filings by Checkr Group, Inc. report equity sales of about $120 million in April 2022 and $61 million in May 2025.

Checkr remains private. At the time of the Series E it said it was profitable with revenue of several hundred million dollars a year. It has expanded by acquisition: GoodHire, a self-service screening provider for small businesses, in April 2022; Truework, an income and employment verification company, announced in April 2025; and Truv, a consumer-permissioned income, employment and asset verification provider, in August 2026, which marked its entry into government verification.

Checkr shows a seed-stage accelerator bet compounding into a multibillion-dollar private company within seven years. Y Combinator and Accel entered in 2014 and kept participating through the Series E, while crossover investors such as T. Rowe Price, Fidelity and Franklin Templeton supplied the later capital. No public listing or sale has taken place, so the early backers' gains remain on paper five years after the last priced round.