Checkr Gets $9M For Background Check API
San Francisco-based Chekr, which provides an online API for automating things like background checks and driving records checks, has raised $9M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Accel Partners, and also included Khosla Ventures, SVAngel, Data Collective, Google Ventures, Bobby Yazdani, Elad Gil, Wesley Chan, Scott Banister, Joshua Schachter, David Spector, Paul Bucheit, Kevin Hale, Qasar Younis, Ilya Sukhar and Tikhon Bernstam. Checkr said its service is being used by such companies as Homejoy, iCracked, Instacart and Doordash for screening their on-demand marketplace users. The firm was co-founded by Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon, and comes out of Y Combinator.
posted on Thursday, October 16, 2014 (Link to more information)
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