Jonathan Perichon
Unicorn founderFounder at Checkr
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedCheckr$5B · YC
About
Jonathan Perichon is co-founder of Checkr, an API-first background check platform. He previously worked as an engineer at on-demand delivery startup Deliv, where he and co-founder Daniel Yanisee identified inefficiencies in the background check industry.
Founder at CheckrYC S14
Intro paths
YC
Jonathan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2014) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Jonathan can intro founders to Checkr's investors below.
Checkr's investors · 16
AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2018Activant CapitalNew York · $100K – $50M checksCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksDCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checksEarl Grey CapitalAustinFidelity InvestmentsBostonGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checksIndustrious VenturesDenverIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksLong Journey VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checksNight CapitalCapitolaSound VenturesSanta MonicaSV AngelSan FranciscoT. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2018U First CapitalSilicon ValleyY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2018
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Co-founders at Checkr
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Daniel YanisseFounder/CEO
Experience
- CheckrCo-foundercurrent2014 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- delivSoftware Engineer2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- MogreetSoftware Engineer2013Greater Los Angeles Area
- MogreetSoftware Engineer Intern2011 — 2012Greater Los Angeles Area
- KDEDeveloper - Google Summer of Code program2011
- University of TeessideDeveloper Intern2010Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Skills & more
Vim6Design Patterns2Software Engineering2Qt2Memcached1Redis1RabbitMQ1Distributed Systems1APIs1CheckrRuby25JavaScript19
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Ruby on RailsSQLMongoDBMySQLC++AngularElasticSearchAngularJSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Languages English · French · Italian · Spanish
- Checkr Verified Profile — Checkr, Inc.
From Jonathan's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jonathan Perichon?
- Jonathan Perichon is co-founder of Checkr, an API-first background check platform. He previously worked as an engineer at on-demand delivery startup Deliv, where he and co-founder Daniel Yanisee identified inefficiencies in the background check industry.
- Where does Jonathan Perichon work?
- Jonathan Perichon is Founder of Checkr.
- What companies did Jonathan Perichon found?
- Jonathan Perichon founded Checkr.
- Where did Jonathan Perichon go to school?
- Jonathan Perichon studied at UTBM (Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science); Université Laval (Exchange Semester, Software Engineering); Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand (Two-year undergraduate degree, Computer Science).
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Y Combinator mafia8,773
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Université Laval mafia2
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Same school
Also attended UTBM2
Also attended Université Laval36
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Also attended Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand4
Shared employers
Also worked at Checkr19
Neha JewalikarDirector of Communications at Scale Venture PartnersJules MaltzInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Pascal Levy-GarbouaVenture Partner at Long Journey VenturesTomas BarretoOperating Partner, Engineering at KPCBRich WongPartner at AccelBrad SteinPartner, Portfolio Operations & CFO at Merus Capital
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