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Modern Life
Modern Life is an AI-powered, tech-enabled life insurance brokerage that gives financial advisors a single platform to quote, underwrite, and manage life insurance policies. Founded in 2021 by Michael Konialian and Jack Arenas and backed by Thrive Capital, it replaces a stack of 10+ fragmented legacy tools, compares quotes across 30+ carriers, and uses accelerated underwriting to cut policy cycle times from roughly six months to minutes. Licensed in all 50 states, the company raised a $20M Series A in November 2025, bringing total funding to $35M.
Michael Konialian
Michael Konialian is the founder and CEO of Modern Life, an AI-powered life insurance brokerage built for financial advisors. After a winding path from aerospace structures at NASA to nuclear diplomacy at the U.S. State Department to scaling CoverWallet's advisor business into an Aon acquisition, he was floored by how confusing, invasive, and outdated it was to buy life insurance for his own family. Modern Life is his answer: a single dashboard that lets advisors pull instant quotes from 30-plus carriers and compress a process that once took six months into minutes. In November 2025 the company raised a $20M Series A led by Thrive Capital, bringing total funding to $35M.