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Gyde

Category: AI in Fintech

An AI-native insurance brokerage platform designed to modernize the agent experience by integrating health, wealth, and insurance guidance into a unified, automated workflow. Gyde was founded in 2025. The company is led by Will Johnson. Based in Austin, USA. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $60.0M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Optum Ventures, Crystal Venture Partners, Virtue, MVP Ventures.

Founded
2025
Headquarters
Austin, USA
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$60.0M

Value proposition

Unlocks agent capacity by automating administrative burdens and providing real-time AI insights, allowing brokers to offer holistic advice across health and wealth domains while increasing client retention and lifetime value.

Products and solutions

GydeOS: A comprehensive, AI-driven operating system for insurance agencies., Gia: An intelligent AI assistant that identifies coverage gaps and provides real-time cross-sell recommendations., Automated Meeting Prep: Tools that summarize client needs and prepare brokers for consultations in minutes., Growth & Capital Support: Infrastructure and capital solutions to help agencies scale through technology and acquisition.

Unique value

Unlike legacy platforms that add AI as a secondary feature, Gyde is 'AI-native,' built from the ground up to bridge the siloed sectors of health insurance and wealth planning into a single advisory experience.

Target customer

Independent insurance agents, health insurance brokers (specifically Medicare Advantage and employee benefits), and wealth management advisors.

Industries served

InsurTech, Health Insurance (Medicare, Individual, and Group), Wealth Management, Fintech

Technology advantage

Leverages proprietary AI workflows (Gia) to perform 'heavy lifting' tasks like data entry and plan comparison, combined with a unique business model that partners with top-tier agencies through acquisition and co-ownership.

How they differentiate

Gyde differentiates through an 'AI-native' architecture rather than adding AI as a secondary feature. It uniquely bridges the gap between health insurance and wealth management, using its 'Gia' AI assistant to automate administrative tasks and provide real-time cross-sell recommendations that legacy platforms lack.

Main competitors

Spark Advisors, GoHealth, SelectQuote

Key partnerships

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Lead Investor), Optum Ventures (Strategic Health-Tech Partner), Top 1% Agency Leaders (Co-ownership and acquisition partners), MVP Ventures and Virtue (Investment partners)

Notable customers

Avid Health (acquired Apr 2026), Benavest (acquired Apr 2026), We Know Medicare (acquired May 2026), Osborne Insurance Services (acquired Jun 2026)

Major milestones

Official public launch January 28, 2026 with $60M financing led by Lightspeed, Acquired Avid Health (Apr 2, 2026) — first partner Medicare agency, Acquired Benavest (Apr 20, 2026) — consumer health / ACA / Medicare FMO, Acquired We Know Medicare (May 18, 2026) — 300+ agent Medicare network, Acquired Osborne Insurance Services (Jun 25, 2026) — fourth agency acquisition, Appointed Andrew Shults as CTO (2026); platform GydeOS and Gia AI assistant

Growth metrics

Four agency acquisitions announced Apr–Jun 2026 (Avid Health, Benavest, We Know Medicare, Osborne). PitchBook lists ~27 employees; HQ Austin with NYC office. We Know Medicare network ~300 agents across 44 states under Gyde platform.

Market positioning

Premium AI-native disruptor in the insurance brokerage and wealth advisory space.

Geographic focus

United States (primarily focused on the Medicare and individual health insurance markets).

Patents and IP

No specific public patents disclosed as of August 2026; focus remains on proprietary software architecture and trade-secret AI models.

About Will Johnson

Will Johnson has over 15 years of experience in strategy and operations within the healthcare and insurance sectors. He spent nearly a decade at Oscar Health, where he served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations and General Manager of +Oscar Modular Solutions. Prior to his tenure at Oscar, he worked as a consultant at Bain & Company and as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company.

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