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Certn expands Down Under, acquires Australian background check provider

Certn, one of Victoria’s fastest-growing tech firms, announced its second acquisition of the year: an Australian company called InterCheck. The business provides a range of employment background checks and candidate screening services.

The deal is meant to diversify Certn’s global reach while enabling InterCheck’s clients to access Certn’s platform, which can run background checks in more than 200 countries and territories.

Hayden Langhorn, founder and managing director of InterCheck, says joining Certn will allow his team to augment their product offerings and geographical reach. “Certn shares our mission of providing the best customer experience and I couldn’t be more proud to join them,” he said.

Founded in 2016, Certn specializes in conducting background checks. Employers and landlords use it to streamline candidate screening processes and reduce costs. In July, six months after it bought U.K.-based Credence – another background check firm – Certn hired an executive to oversee markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In addition, it raised $65 million in Series B funding this past Spring.

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📰 More Victoria innovation news

Top five: The Women-led Impact Investor Challenge Finale is just over a month away, and VoxCell BioInnovation — a Victoria startup — finds itself in the top-five ventures. VoxCell, led by Dr. Karolina Valente, aims to accelerate the development of life-saving anti-cancer drugs by providing tissue models that can identify inviable candidates earlier in the drug-development pipeline. Go deeper.

ICYMI: The Annual Biomedical Engineering and Health Technology Showcase returns for its sixth year on November 18 at the UVic Student Union Building. Sam Mercer, president of Vancouver Island Life Sciences, will deliver the keynote address on UVic’s BioInnovation Hub. Dr. Marianne Black will talk about the research she is doing with augmented reality for health, surgery, and assistive technologies. Learn more.

🕴️ Tech jobs of the week

Find your next career:

• Senior Application Analyst at BC Transit

• Software QA – Test Specialist at Quester Tangent Corporation

• Business Development Representative at Vinn Automotive Technologies

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