# Daniel Yanisse > Daniel Yanisse is a Series A investor at Checkr (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Lending. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Checkr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/checkr) - Location: San Francisco, United States - Total investments: 6 - Last investment: Mar 2024 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yanisse - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/danielyanisse - Website: https://checkr.com/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielyanisse Daniel Yanisse is a Series A investor at Checkr in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Lending. Daniel Yanisse is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Checkr. Daniel previously worked at Deliv as a Software Engineer. Daniel Yanisse attended the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Series B | $30M–$55M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | FinTech | 2 | 33% | | Lending | 2 | 33% | | Software | 2 | 33% | | Developer APIs | 2 | 33% | | SaaS | 1 | 17% | 18 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series A | 2 | 33% | | Series B | 2 | 33% | | Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% | | Series C | 1 | 17% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 3 | 50% | | Australia | 1 | 17% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Argyle | Argyle is the leading provider of direct-source, consumer-permissioned income, employment, and asset verifications. We make it fast and easy to gain secure and reliable access to the most complete real-time datasets stored in consumers’ payroll and bank accounts, enabling service providers to eliminate manual document uploads and automate criticalverification workflows.With Argyle, service providers save time, reduce fraud and compliance risks, lower verification costs by 80% compared to The Work Number, and build better product experiences. Named a World’s Most Innovative Company in 2024 by Fast Company, Argyle largely serves the mortgage, personal lending, tenant screening, and background check industries as well as the gig economy.Compared to other direct-source verification providers, Argyle delivers the highest conversion rates, and our coverage of the U.S. workforce includes 96% of the Fortune 1000. We have been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers of 2025, by HousingWire as a Tech100 mortgage innovator, Fintech Nexus as an Emerging Fintech Innovator, and Fintech Futures as the 2023 Fintech Startup of the Year. Argyle is also a proud authorized report supplier for Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter® validation service, a component of Day 1 Certainty®, and Freddie Mac’s Asset and Income Modeler (AIM), part of Loan Product Advisor℠.Founded in 2018, Argyle completed its Series C funding round in 2024 and has raised over $100 million in capital. Argyle is backed by top investors, including Rockefeller Asset Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Bedrock, Checkr, F-Prime, and SignalFire.Learn why top companies, including Regional Finance, ALCOVA Mortgage, NFM Lending, Checkr, and Snappt, trust Argyle to power their verifications. | $30M | Series C | Mar 05, 2024 | | | Argyle | Argyle is the leading provider of direct-source, consumer-permissioned income, employment, and asset verifications. We make it fast and easy to gain secure and reliable access to the most complete real-time datasets stored in consumers’ payroll and bank accounts, enabling service providers to eliminate manual document uploads and automate criticalverification workflows.With Argyle, service providers save time, reduce fraud and compliance risks, lower verification costs by 80% compared to The Work Number, and build better product experiences. Named a World’s Most Innovative Company in 2024 by Fast Company, Argyle largely serves the mortgage, personal lending, tenant screening, and background check industries as well as the gig economy.Compared to other direct-source verification providers, Argyle delivers the highest conversion rates, and our coverage of the U.S. workforce includes 96% of the Fortune 1000. We have been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers of 2025, by HousingWire as a Tech100 mortgage innovator, Fintech Nexus as an Emerging Fintech Innovator, and Fintech Futures as the 2023 Fintech Startup of the Year. Argyle is also a proud authorized report supplier for Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter® validation service, a component of Day 1 Certainty®, and Freddie Mac’s Asset and Income Modeler (AIM), part of Loan Product Advisor℠.Founded in 2018, Argyle completed its Series C funding round in 2024 and has raised over $100 million in capital. Argyle is backed by top investors, including Rockefeller Asset Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Bedrock, Checkr, F-Prime, and SignalFire.Learn why top companies, including Regional Finance, ALCOVA Mortgage, NFM Lending, Checkr, and Snappt, trust Argyle to power their verifications. | $55M | Series B | Mar 08, 2022 | | | Dovetail | Dovetail is the only AI-first insights hub that automatically centralizes and transforms scattered customer feedback into insights that help everyone in the enterprise make more customer-centric decisions.Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first withDovetail and improve the quality of their thing. Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco. | $63M | Series A | Jan 20, 2022 | | | Openlytics | Openlytics is a Visual Data Platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape the direction ofthe product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2021 | | | Argyle | Argyle is the leading provider of direct-source, consumer-permissioned income, employment, and asset verifications. We make it fast and easy to gain secure and reliable access to the most complete real-time datasets stored in consumers’ payroll and bank accounts, enabling service providers to eliminate manual document uploads and automate criticalverification workflows.With Argyle, service providers save time, reduce fraud and compliance risks, lower verification costs by 80% compared to The Work Number, and build better product experiences. Named a World’s Most Innovative Company in 2024 by Fast Company, Argyle largely serves the mortgage, personal lending, tenant screening, and background check industries as well as the gig economy.Compared to other direct-source verification providers, Argyle delivers the highest conversion rates, and our coverage of the U.S. workforce includes 96% of the Fortune 1000. We have been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers of 2025, by HousingWire as a Tech100 mortgage innovator, Fintech Nexus as an Emerging Fintech Innovator, and Fintech Futures as the 2023 Fintech Startup of the Year. Argyle is also a proud authorized report supplier for Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter® validation service, a component of Day 1 Certainty®, and Freddie Mac’s Asset and Income Modeler (AIM), part of Loan Product Advisor℠.Founded in 2018, Argyle completed its Series C funding round in 2024 and has raised over $100 million in capital. Argyle is backed by top investors, including Rockefeller Asset Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Bedrock, Checkr, F-Prime, and SignalFire.Learn why top companies, including Regional Finance, ALCOVA Mortgage, NFM Lending, Checkr, and Snappt, trust Argyle to power their verifications. | | Series A | Oct 14, 2020 | | | Truework | Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment. It is used for employment and income verification which puts consumers in control of the data. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and developer APIs. | $30M | Series B | May 20, 2020 | | 6 of 6 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [World Innovation Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wil) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Checkr VC Fund · San Francisco, United States Checkr is a startup that provides either online access or an API that returns automatically generated background checks. Checkr uses the same data sources as traditional background check companies, but can usually turn it around a lot more quickly than traditional providers. Through Checkr’s advanced background check technology, companies canbetter understand the dynamics of the changing workforce, bring transparency and fairness to their hiring, and ultimately build a better future for workers.Checkr was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Denver, Colorado. 5 contacts available at Checkr. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Daniel Yanisse | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-yanisse | | Jade Feng | Senior Product Manager, International | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jade-feng-2 | | Jennifer Ng | Head of Finance & Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-ng | | Linda Shaffer | Vice President of Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-shaffer | | Ivan Rylach | Staff Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivan-rylach | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund - [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Australia](https://shizune.co/investors/artificial-intelligence-angel-investors-australia) ## FAQ ### What does Daniel Yanisse invest in? Daniel Yanisse invests primarily in FinTech, Lending and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Daniel Yanisse's check size? Daniel Yanisse typically joins rounds of $30M–$55M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Daniel Yanisse participates in. ### When did Daniel Yanisse last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Yanisse closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? 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