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YC-backed unicorn founder and CEO of Checkr, valued at $4.6B
Credibility
Traction · 95th percentile
- Checkr reached a $4.6B valuation, making Daniel Yanisse a unicorn founder.
- Checkr has raised $680M in total funding across all rounds.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and CEO of Checkr.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Checkr is a Y Combinator Summer 2014 company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Checkr reached a $4.6B valuation, making Daniel Yanisse a unicorn founder.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Checkr has raised $680M in total funding across all rounds.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Checkr was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @Tartopom is dormant with no public push activity in over 13 years.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @Tartopom is identified as Daniel Yanisse's account via a project link on his LinkedIn profile.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @Tartopom has been active for over 13 years, created in 2013.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with portfolio companies including Dovetail, Openlytics, and Truework.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with at least 3 portfolio companies including Dovetail, Openlytics, and Truework.
What you likely need
You're at the inflection point where Checkr's scale demands IPO-readiness infrastructure, board upgrades, and a formalized investing identity — and the right rooms can accelerate all three. Festival events that put you alongside late-stage SaaS founders navigating the public markets window, seasoned independent directors, and YC operator-angels will be the highest-leverage use of your time. A handful of the right dinners and roundtables can compress months of relationship-building into a single evening.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA late-stage SaaS founder dinner for $300M+ ARR companies who have engaged investment banks for IPO readiness assessments, to compare notes on timing, banker selection, and public-market narrative construction
- fundraisingA roundtable for YC alumni unicorn founders formalizing their angel activity into operator-led funds or syndicates, to share fund structure, LP sourcing, and deal flow strategies beyond a handful of portfolio companies
- introsA YC S14 alumni dinner focused on HR-tech and compliance founders where your Checkr domain expertise makes you the most valuable person in the room for sourcing and vetting early-stage investments
- tacticalA closed-door roundtable for founders who have successfully crossed $500M ARR by moving upmarket into enterprise, sharing playbooks on deal structure, procurement navigation, and executive relationship strategy
- hiringA curated dinner pairing late-stage pre-IPO founders with independent directors who have served as public-company CFOs or CHROs, specifically to evaluate board composition gaps ahead of an S-1
- positioningA thought-leader dinner with Fortune and Bloomberg-connected journalists, CHRO executives, and fair-chance hiring advocates to sharpen Checkr's category-defining narrative around AI in HR ahead of a public offering
- wellbeingA peer CEO coaching circle for founders 10+ years into building their companies, structured around work-life sustainability, identity beyond the company, and preparing psychologically for a liquidity event