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Bob Gaydos

Founder and CEO of Pendella, a 50 state virtual insurance agency

📍 Fort Myers, Florida, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2014
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Investor, Advisor
Oct 2014
Limelight Health is a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software solutions delivering the most efficient and compelling quoting & underwriting platform for the employee benefits industry. We provide process automation and seamless integration between every participant in the employee benefits industry including carriers, underwriters, sales executives, agents, advisors, and their customers. Limelight’s innovative platform offers a range of microservices that are highly configurable for business needs including quoting, rating, proposal generation, renewals, automated processing for pre-sales, new business, underwriting, enrollment support, data analysis, reporting, consumer delivery and agent self-service, document management and seamless integration with industry systems and services. With headquarters in San Francisco, California, Limelight Health has satellite locations in Redding, California and Des Moines, Iowa and a very large remote workforce. Learn more at www.limelighthealth.com.
early stageInsurance
Investor & VP of Strategic Partnerships
Dec 2013
Maxwell Health simplifies benefits and HR for small-to-mid-sized employers. The platform includes a marketplace that makes buying benefits intuitive for employees, tools that streamline HR processes including benefits administration and payroll, and a mobile app that makes using benefits easy. Our purpose is to help American families achieve health and financial well-being by modernizing how employees experience insurance, financial, and wellness benefits. The platform is provided by benefits advisors as well as insurance and retirement companies that license our technology. To learn more about Maxwell Health, please visit www.maxwellhealth.com.
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2018
CEO, Founder
Apr 2018
Pendella is a cloud-based platform that helps you compete in the new economy. Our white-label technology is a ready-made licensed software product, branded to your company. Plus, we can integrate into systems such your CRM or benefits administration platform. We offer instant decision underwriting, accelerated underwriting, and point-of-sale underwriting. Our journey is a consumer facing end-to-end solution, as well as an agent-assist solution. Our experienced team has a strong understanding of what customers want, and how they currently get it. This foundation allowed us to modernize the experience of buying life insurance. Our technology provides you with a turnkey process in order to bring the future of life insurance to your customers.
early stageInsurance
2014
Investor, Advisor
Oct 2014
Limelight Health is a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software solutions delivering the most efficient and compelling quoting & underwriting platform for the employee benefits industry. We provide process automation and seamless integration between every participant in the employee benefits industry including carriers, underwriters, sales executives, agents, advisors, and their customers. Limelight’s innovative platform offers a range of microservices that are highly configurable for business needs including quoting, rating, proposal generation, renewals, automated processing for pre-sales, new business, underwriting, enrollment support, data analysis, reporting, consumer delivery and agent self-service, document management and seamless integration with industry systems and services. With headquarters in San Francisco, California, Limelight Health has satellite locations in Redding, California and Des Moines, Iowa and a very large remote workforce. Learn more at www.limelighthealth.com.
early stageInsurance
2013
Investor & VP of Strategic Partnerships
Dec 2013
Maxwell Health simplifies benefits and HR for small-to-mid-sized employers. The platform includes a marketplace that makes buying benefits intuitive for employees, tools that streamline HR processes including benefits administration and payroll, and a mobile app that makes using benefits easy. Our purpose is to help American families achieve health and financial well-being by modernizing how employees experience insurance, financial, and wellness benefits. The platform is provided by benefits advisors as well as insurance and retirement companies that license our technology. To learn more about Maxwell Health, please visit www.maxwellhealth.com.
CEO & Founder
Dec 2013
Connected Benefits is software with service! We are a virtual 50 state insurance agency. We serve the small business owner coast-to-coast providing benefits for the employees and business protection for owners and partners. Simple and efficient. That is our goal. We have access to most major carriers including Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Humana, Guardian Life Insurance, Principal, MetLife, and many more. - Health Insurance - Dental & Vision Insurance - Life & Disability Insurance - Accident & Critical Illness Insurance Our dedicated accounts managers are there for you day-in and day-out; assisting with implementation, enrollment, eligibility, reporting, and much more. We assist your employees with understanding their benefits as well as claims issues.
early stageInsurance
2012
Chamber Preferred - a program of Digital Benefit Advisors
Co-founder
Jan 2012
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