Checkr Named to Fast Company’s 2026 World’s Most Innovative Companies List

At Checkr, our verification platform powers millions of critical decisions in hiring, lending, and life. Our proprietary data and purpose-built AI enable us to offer the fastest, most accurate verifications for organizations and individuals.

We’re honored to share that this work has just been recognized on a global stage. Checkr has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in the HR category, earning a spot among the top 15 HR companies worldwide.

Fast Company’s annual list highlights organizations that are not only building advanced technology but reshaping how people and organizations operate in the real world. For Checkr, this recognition affirms our role as the data platform that powers safe and fair decisions—and our leadership in AI innovation to build the future of trust.

Checkr is at the center of a fundamental shift: high-stakes decisions—like hiring someone, approving a loan, leasing an apartment, or allowing a visitor into a school—are increasingly interconnected with data and AI.

Every day, our customers face questions that carry real consequences:

By pairing AI with a deep commitment to fairness and transparency, we’re setting a new standard for how those questions are answered at scale.

Checkr’s history of innovation started over ten years ago in one of the most complex, regulated parts of the trust ecosystem: employment background checks. By combining automation, AI, and human expertise, we began helping hiring teams make faster, more consistent, and fairer decisions—while improving the candidate experience.

We have evolved to power five product lines that support decision-making across professional and personal contexts:

Checkr’s platform is designed to take in complex, scattered information about people and turn it into structured insights that are ready for decision-makers.

Two core functions underpin this work:

Together, they enable our customers to verify identities and credentials more quickly and precisely, detect risk and fraud earlier, and apply policies consistently, with workflows tailored to unique risk and compliance needs.

Checkr is reshaping what was previously an opaque, error-prone, and time-consuming process for verifying another person's identity, background and qualifications. Our platform is purpose-built to support decisions that require a high level of confidence—not a repackaged legacy process.

Being named to Fast Company’s 2026 list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies is a milestone and a mandate. It reinforces our responsibility to lead not just in technology, but in how technology is applied to decisions that shape people’s lives.

Looking ahead, we’re focused on advancing our AI capabilities, expanding the reach of our People Data Graph, and deepening our impact as we help customers operationalize safe and fair decision-making at scale.

We’re grateful to our customers, partners, and the millions of people whose lives intersect with our platform.

About the author

Lindsey Scrase is the Chief Operating Officer at Checkr, leading the company’s global go-to-market strategy across marketing, sales, customer success, solutions, partnerships, customer and candidate support, and revenue operations. She is a data-driven, customer-centric leader with nearly 20 years of experience scaling product-led growth businesses, including a decade growing Google Cloud’s SMB, mid-market, and startup business to over 6 million Google Workspace customers.