6 Best Background Check Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Background Check Startups

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There are 6 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $652.4m. The average funding per company in this subset is $108.7m.

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Checkr logo

Checkr

4

Funding Rounds

$520.0m

Money raised

Checkr is a company developing an API to automate professional background checking.

Industries:

Analytics Software engineering Software

Location:

San Francisco

Key people:

Verifiable logo

Verifiable

3

Funding Rounds

$39.9m

Money raised

Austin, Texas-based real-time healthcare license verification and monitoring software company founded by serial entrepreneur Nick Macario

Industries:

Background check

Location:

Austin, Texas

Key people:

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Inflection (company)

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

Inflection is a company founded in 2006 by Matthew Monahan.

Industries:

Identity Background check Big data

Location:

California Redwood City, California

Key people:

KarmaCheck Inc. logo

KarmaCheck Inc.

2

Funding Rounds

$39.0m

Money raised

KarmaCheck Inc. is a San Francisco-based company developing a platform for background checks.

Industries:

Background check

Location:

San Francisco

Key people:

Naborly logo

Naborly

2

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

Naborly is a tenant screening software company based in Toronto founded in 2016 by Anastasia Fox.

Industries:

Financial technology Housing Machine learning

Location:

United States Toronto Canada

Key people:

Truora logo

Truora

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

Truora provides background checks and identity theft detection solution for fraud prevention to national and international retailers, banks and marketplaces in Latin America.

Industries:

Banking Information technology Background check

Location:

Cali

Key people:

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