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Orijin puts a classroom in prison. The next lesson is getting hired.
The agency pays. The learner studies free. Orijin’s secure tablets bring education into correctional facilities - and its acquisition of Honest Jobs follows the student through the prison gate.
Daniel Yanisse Put Trust Behind an API. Then the Hard Part Began.
A slow background check gave a young robotics engineer an elegant startup idea. Twelve years later, Daniel Yanisse is still working through the gloriously untidy question hidden inside it: how should software decide whom to trust?
Checkr, Inc.
Checkr is a San Francisco-based HR-tech company that uses AI and a modern API to run background checks at internet speed. Founded in 2014 by Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon out of Y Combinator, it processes screenings for Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, OpenAI and thousands of other employers - and lobbies hard for fair-chance hiring along the way.
Jonathan Perichon
Jonathan Perichon is the Co-founder and CTO of Checkr, Inc., a San Francisco-based AI-powered background screening platform he co-founded in 2014 with Daniel Yanisse. A French-born software engineer who discovered the gig economy's broken background check infrastructure while working at an LA startup, Perichon turned that frustration into a $4.6 billion company serving over 100,000 clients including DoorDash, Lyft, Coinbase, and Uber. A Y Combinator S14 alumnus who applied three times before getting in, he embodies the principle that persistence and execution beat credentials every time.