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Akad Seguros puts the broker in the fast lane
The Brazilian insurer bought a running business, then set about removing the waiting. Its bet: better tools can make the insurance broker more useful.
Danilo Gamboa and the case for keeping the middleman
After years at GP Investments, Danilo Gamboa took charge of an insurer with an unusual technology proposition: make the broker more useful. At Akad Seguros, the route from private equity to insurance runs through software, specialist partners and a stubborn attention to distribution.
Ease made the insurance broker the software department
Small employers needed better benefits software. Ease put it in the hands of their insurance brokers - and built a business that is now being folded into Employee Navigator.
The Startup That Made Insurance Paperwork Feel Like TurboTax
Broker Buddha replaced the PDF-and-fax ritual of commercial insurance with online smart forms - and squeezed renewals from months down to about three and a half days. Then Acturis bought it to plant a flag in America.
Hedge
Hedge is an AI-native specialty insurance wholesaler that sits between retail brokers and specialty carriers, using AI agents to place hard-to-insure businesses faster and cheaper. Founded in 2026 by Luke Button and Luke Rosa and backed by Y Combinator (P26 batch), Hedge automates the manual quoting workflow - reading submissions, selecting markets, completing carrier applications, negotiating quotes, and issuing documents - so brokers get coverage in minutes instead of days.
Comulate
Comulate builds AI-powered accounting automation and revenue-intelligence software for large insurance brokers. Its platform handles the industry's most manual, error-prone back-office work - direct billing, cash application, carrier payables and revenue integrity - by extracting data from disparate sources, reconciling it against policy systems, and flagging discrepancies. Founded in 2022 by former Asana and Brex operators Jordan Katz and Michael Mattheakis, the San Francisco company scaled to eight-figure revenue in under three years and raised a $20M Series B led by BOND and Workday Ventures in February 2025.
Qumis
Qumis is a Chicago-based insurtech building attorney-trained AI for commercial insurance. Its coverage intelligence platform reads dense property and casualty policies the way a seasoned coverage attorney would - comparing quotes and endorsements, flagging gaps across policy towers, and backing every answer with source-linked citations and transparent reasoning. Founded by a former coverage attorney and a former Goldman Sachs engineering leader, Qumis already serves five of the 15 largest U.S. brokers, along with specialty carriers and insurance law firms, and has raised $6.75M to put a coverage specialist at every desk.