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Lightyear Capital

The Firm

Lightyear Capital is a New York financial-services specialist with more than twenty-five years behind it: $5.6 billion invested across six funds, another $3.6 billion of co-investment deployed, sixty-three platform investments, and more than 380 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: 380-plus add-ons across sixty-three 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 eighteen 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.

Read again in September 2026: the insurance platform bought twenty-three agencies between May and September, about one a week. Every item page serves a headline and an empty body while the release lives in a PDF the platform hosts, where each row's day was read. Thirteen more titles between March and May print no readable date and wait, and the sponsor's two items since are investments in benefits software and a tax firm. Twelve more agencies from March to May 2026 are rows that night, each dated by the header of the PDF the platform hosts, where five print a day later than the wire's own address encodes. A Trinidad merger announced as forthcoming is not a row, and seven earlier titles from December 2025 and February 2026 wait for their PDFs. The seven earlier titles opened that night are rows dated by their PDF headers, six from the last week of 2025 and one from February, so the platform's record here runs unbroken from December 2025 to September 2026 at forty-two agencies in forty-one releases. Its platform's press pages are empty page records whose release lives in a PDF the site hosts and never links from the page, so the twenty-three rows that cited those pages cite the PDFs now, each printing the day the row carries.

What It Buys

New York, New York. A financial-services investor co-leading Inszone, the brokerage that has bought over 130 independent insurance agencies, and closed eighteen in a single quarter of 2026.

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Confirmed Deals

42 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.

In Its Trades

Trades it buys

Insurance Agency

The other confirmed bidders

World Insurance AssociatesEthos Capital