Insurance

Jerry

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Founded 2017Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Your car and your home are your most expensive assets. And for most people, these aren't just purchases, they're the physical embodiment of the life you've worked hard to build. Yet the experience of owning them is stuck in the 90s. Every step of the journey — buying, insuring, maintaining, repairing, selling — is fragmented, complicated, and expensive.

Imagine having a trusted friend in your pocket who takes care of everything: they find you the right car or home at the right price, lock in the best insurance rate without you lifting a finger, remind you before that service appointment turns into an expensive repair or, worse, an accident, and help you sell at the best price when the time is right. That friend is Jerry.

Jerry is building the first AI agent to manage all your physical assets. We started with car insurance in 2019, became one of the top 3 brokers in the U.S., then added driving insights, diagnostics, and a repair marketplace. We've reached 5M+ customers, raised $240M+, and have been profitable since 2024. We're now expanding into home, motorcycle, RV, and beyond.

We’re fully remote with offices in Palo Alto, New York, Chicago, and Toronto.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Jerry, Jerry, Inc.

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Musawir Shah

Founder/CTO

Hardware/software enthusiast, passionate about building highly usable, highly scalable products. Currently focusing on the art of running an efficient software engineering team, leading with code editor in hand.

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Lina Zhang

Founder

Co-Founder at Jerry.ai, currently leading legal, people ops, and recruiting. Prior to Jerry, I scaled operations and supply at YourMechanic (YC W12). Before that, I was a biochemist-turned-attorney specializing in intellectual property and patents at Morrison Foerster. Lifelong student and forever in pursuit of mastery.

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Founded 2017 · Source

Origins

My co-founders, Lina Zhang and Musawir Shah, and I worked together at my previous startup, YourMechanic, a company that provides mobile automotive repair and maintenance services to vehicle owners at their location. Through that experience and our own personal, frustrating experiences with all car ownership hassles, we knew this was a category ripe for disruption. From determining what car to buy, financing a vehicle, finding insurance, licensing, titles, warranties, repairs, parking, and maintenance, we saw very clearly that services for car owners were lagging behind the ease and convenience offered in other industries. We wanted to remove the friction and make the transactions seamless and less expensive. The three of us set out to launch a product that would solve these hassles for car owners. We started with a car insurance compare-and-buy service that quickly gained traction _Since then we have helped more than 3 million customers shop for car insurance. We’ve also expanded our vision from a car insurance shopping site to a car ownership super app. That is because car insurance is just one of the expensive hassles car owners experience. Today, in addition to our car insurance marketplace, our app helps customers with auto refinancing, safe driving and more._

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

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