Alkeme

What Alkeme does

ALKEME (legal entity ALKEME Intermediary Holdings, LLC) is a U.S.-based independent insurance brokerage founded in 2020 through the merger of seven entities (six insurance agencies and one wealth management firm) that had previously operated as part of a private-equity-backed cluster. Headquartered in Ladera Ranch, California, ALKEME distributes commercial property & casualty, employee benefits, personal lines, life insurance, and financial services to small and mid-sized businesses, individual consumers, and high-net-worth clients across the United States, organized into five operating regions (West, Pacific, South/Southwest, Central, East). The company has built specialized industry verticals in construction, transportation and trucking, hospitality, security, automotive dealerships, habitational/residential, healthcare benefits, and religious and public-entity insurance.

Name

Alkeme

Legal name

ALKEME Intermediary Holdings, LLC

Website

https://alkemeins.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

ALKEME is a U.S.-based independent insurance brokerage serving SMB, mid-market, and individual clients across 29+ states through 90+ offices, distributing commercial insurance, employee benefits, and financial services with vertical specializations in construction, transportation, hospitality, security, automotive, and habitational sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ladera Ranch

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices21 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Insurance Brokerage Commissions: ALKEME earns commissions on insurance policies placed with carriers across property & casualty, employee benefits, personal lines, life insurance, and financial services. As an independent brokerage, it shops multiple carriers on behalf of clients and earns a percentage of premiums written.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ALKEME is an independent insurance brokerage that places commercial, personal, employee benefits, and financial services coverages on behalf of clients by shopping multiple top-rated carriers. The firm also operates the ALKEME Collective M&A platform, acquiring and integrating independent insurance agencies into a national network that retains local entrepreneurial identity while gaining access to national carrier relationships and operational resources.

Product overview

ALKEME is an insurance brokerage firm offering a comprehensive platform of insurance and financial services. The core offerings include Business Insurance (covering general liability, workers' compensation, commercial property, business interruption, E&O, commercial auto, cyber liability, and D&O), Personal Insurance (home, auto, life, health, liability, and valuables), Employee Benefits (group health, retirement plans, wellness programs, and voluntary benefits), and Financial Services (wealth management, estate planning, and 401(k) services). ALKEME serves specific industry verticals including security guard, construction, automotive, hospitality, habitational, and transportation insurance. The company operates through its ALKEME Collective platform, an M&A partnership model that enables independent agencies to join while maintaining autonomy, and offers digital tools including a Valuation Calculator and quote request forms. The platform ranks among the top 25 insurance brokerages in the United States with operations across 29 states.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Business Insurance

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $2 billion in premiums written annually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments13 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, minor and core.

• Arizona Athletics / University of ArizonaflagshipGTM or Marketing Partner · 13 February 202615-year naming rights partnership valued at $27.7 million for McKale Center, rebranded as McKeme Center at ALKEME Arena. The largest publicly known arena naming rights deal in the Big 12 conference. Includes collaboration with Eller College of Management for entrepreneurship and leadership programming, branding, hospitality, and digital visibility across national television broadcasts.
• Helfer & Associates LLCminorOthers · 25 September 2025Served as the exclusive Sell-Side advisor for the Western Alliance transaction as part of ALKEME's Q1 2026 acquisition of seven agencies.
• CyberCubecoreTechnology or Integration · 14 May 2025CyberCube partnered with ALKEME to provide cyber risk analytics capabilities, enabling ALKEME's brokers to quantify financial exposure, identify cybersecurity issues, and support growth in cyber insurance offerings. CyberCube provides data-driven analytics and AI-based models to insurance institutions globally.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Trucordia: Trucordia is a PE-backed insurance brokerage platform that pursued the same acquisition-led growth model—multiple agency roll-ups across P&C, benefits, and personal lines. Highly comparable to Alkeme: similar PE backing, similar geography, and overlapping verticals; Alkeme's newly appointed CFO Ryan Stradling previously led finance and operations at Trucordia.
• Acrisure: Acrisure is one of the largest PE-backed (Gallagher-walked-away) insurance brokerage platforms in the U.S., built primarily through aggressive M&A across commercial P&C, benefits, and personal lines. Directly comparable to Alkeme on growth model (roll-up M&A), product breadth, and PE-backed capital structure, though materially larger in scale.
• BroadStreet Partners: BroadStreet Partners is a PE-backed insurance brokerage aggregator cited—alongside Alkeme and Inszone—as one of three buyers responsible for 30.7% of U.S. agency M&A activity in early 2026. Direct peer on roll-up M&A strategy and independent agency aggregation.
• Inszone Insurance Services: Inszone Insurance is a rapidly growing PE-backed independent insurance brokerage that, along with BroadStreet and Alkeme, accounted for 30.7% of agency M&A deals in the first five months of 2026. Direct peer given identical PE-backed roll-up model and overlap in commercial and personal lines.
• Alera Group: Alera Group is a PE-backed (GTCR, later Genstar) national insurance brokerage formed through aggregation of mid-market agencies, with similar P&C/benefits/personal lines breadth. Highly comparable business model and trajectory to Alkeme, scaled through agency acquisitions.
• Hilb Group: Hilb Group is a PE-backed insurance and benefits brokerage that has grown predominantly through acquisitions of mid-Atlantic and East Coast agencies. Direct peer given the agency-roll-up M&A strategy, vertical mix of P&C and benefits, and PE-ownership model.
• Risk Strategies Company: Risk Strategies is a PE-backed (KKR-controlled) national specialty insurance brokerage built through acquisitions across commercial, personal, and benefits lines. Direct peer on PE-ownership, M&A-led growth, and breadth of product offerings vs. specialty positioning.
• Brown & Riding Insurance Services: Brown & Riding is a national insurance wholesale/retail brokerage built through acquisitions of specialty and surplus lines agencies. Comparable to Alkeme on M&A-led, specialty-vertical model; differentiated as a wholesale/specialty intermediary rather than retail-focused.

Broad incumbents

• Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Arthur J. Gallagher is one of the world's largest publicly traded insurance brokerages offering risk management, P&C, benefits, and consulting at global scale. Broad incumbent peer covering the same product set as Alkeme but at materially larger scale and with broader geographic and service-line footprint.
• Lockton Companies: Lockton is the world's largest privately held insurance brokerage, providing commercial P&C, benefits, and risk consulting globally. Broad incumbent peer covering the same product categories as Alkeme with materially greater scale and a stronger consulting-led orientation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alkeme-insurance

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries31 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A74 records

Investments

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