Uber conducts its background checks using a startup called Checkr, which also separately announced on Thursday it raised $100 million in new funding. In a press release, Checkr also named Lyft, Uber's biggest US competitor, as a customer.
Background checks pay for Checkr, which just rang up $100 million in new funding
Checkr announced a $100 million funding round last year led by T. Rowe Price, Accel, and Y Combinator, bringing its total funding to about $150 million. The 180-person company says it runs more than a million background checks a month.
Checkr uses software to search through online county records and conducts in-person research when required to perform background checks.[4] As of 2019, Checkr runs over 1.5 million background checks per month.[10]
Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Doordash, GrubHub and Instacart use Checkr to screen their workers. It does more than 1 million checks a month for 10,000-plus customers, specializing in criminal background checks and driving records. It vets workers when they are hired; for some companies, including Uber and Lyft, it reruns checks annually.
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Established company that has raised over $500 million from financiers like T. Rowe Price, Accel and Y Combinator. They most recently raised a $120 million "Series E" round. Checkr automates and speeds up the process of professional background checks. They were founded in 2014.
DoorDash requires all delivery drivers to go through a background check before being approved to deliver for DoorDash. They use a third-party service called Checkr, which runs the background check and sends the information to DoorDash. Checkr is a common background check service that almost every gig economy app uses to run background checks. 2ff7e9595c
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