Lightyear Capital
The Firm
Lightyear Capital is a New York financial-services specialist with more than twenty-five years behind it: $5.2 billion invested across six funds, another $3.1 billion in co-investment, sixty-one platform investments, and over 350 add-on acquisitions, run by a team of fifty-plus. Its stated ground is the nexus of financial services and technology, healthcare, and business services, and its stated posture is partnership with management rather than operational control.
The add-on number is the fact that matters here: 350-plus add-ons across sixty-one platforms means Lightyear's model is buying strings of small companies through the platforms it backs. In this registry that machine is Inszone Insurance Services, the brokerage Lightyear co-leads, which has absorbed over 130 independent agencies and closed seventeen in a single quarter of 2026.
An insurance-agency searcher will never bid against Lightyear directly; they will bid against Inszone's corporate development team, financed by Lightyear's fund. Meeting the firm, the load-bearing facts are the financial-services-only focus, the six-fund history, the operating-partner network it advertises, and the distinction it draws between advising and operating.
What It Buys
New York, NY. A financial-services investor co-leading Inszone, the brokerage that has bought over 130 independent insurance agencies and closed seventeen in a single quarter of 2026.
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Confirmed Deals
3 deals traced to announcements by Lightyear Capital, 2023 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Coriano Insurance Agency (into Inszone) · May 7, 2026
A Phoenix independent agency that scaled past $9M in premiums inside a decade.
- Jaffery Insurance (into Inszone) · March 10, 2026
One of Nebraska's fastest-growing independent agencies, taking the platform into its next state.
- Inszone Insurance Services · November 27, 2023
The platform itself at co-lead investment: 98 agency acquisitions integrated since 2020, 63 offices across all 50 states.