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Daniel Yanisse

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Co-founder & CEO at Checkr
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Daniel Yanisse is the Co-founder and CEO of Checkr, a company revolutionizing the background check industry with AI and automation. His engineering background includes roles at NASA, working on Mars rovers, and various tech startups. He holds both a B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Microengineering from the prestigious EPFL in Switzerland.

Inspired by his immigrant parents persistence, Daniel is a driven problem-solver who enjoys building things from scratch. As a child, he tinkered with computers for fun, even building a custom freeze-cooling system to enhance performance. He is committed to creating a fairer future for workers through more transparent background reporting.

Unique fact: He founded Checkr at age 25 after identifying inefficiencies with background checks while working for an early gig-economy startup.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Co-founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Agentic AI
He is focused on shipping new Agentic AI features at Checkr and sees AI as a crucial tool for making background checks faster, more accurate, and less biased.
Fair Chance Hiring
His company's mission is to build a fairer future by improving understanding of the past, and he is a staunch advocate for fair hiring practices.
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Career

Work history

5-2014
Co-founder & CEO
Checkr
11-2016
Guest speaker, Formation of New Ventures MBA class
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
8-2019 - 2-2024
Board Member
Argyle
6-2013 - 5-2014
Software Engineer
deliv
3-2012 - 5-2013
Software Engineer
Mogreet
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Education
2006 - 2011
M.Sc
EPFL
2007 - 2010
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
EPFL
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