Dane Devlin

Dane Devlin is a founding member and the Managing Director of Clear Lake Consulting, Inc., a Gardner, Kansas–based firm that provides transactional advisory services to the insurance industry. He brings more than thirty-five years of insurance-industry experience and has held several senior management positions within both privately held and publicly held insurance companies, with work centered on due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, franchising, business valuations, and general business consulting.

Within Clear Lake Consulting, Devlin specializes in financial due diligence, agency valuations, ownership perpetuation (succession planning), and mergers and acquisitions. The firm describes itself as a nationwide transactional advisory practice whose founders have helped hundreds of insurance organizations — from family-owned agencies to large private and publicly held carriers — optimize value, cultivate success, and improve liquidity within the industry.

It is important to flag a data-quality issue with the stub record: nothing in the public record identifies Dane Devlin of Clear Lake Consulting as a startup angel investor or a seed-round venture backer. His verifiable work is insurance-industry M&A and valuation advisory, not early-stage equity investing. (Search noise conflated him with unrelated people — e.g., "Dan Devlin," cofounder of Doriot Venture Labs, and various "Devlin Capital"/"Devlin Holdings" real-estate entities — but these are different individuals/firms.) Any founder receiving this record as an "angel" lead should treat that categorization as unconfirmed.

• No verifiable angel/startup investment thesis exists for this individual. He is a consultant/advisor rather than a documented seed-stage check writer.
• His actual professional focus, per his firm bio, is: financial due diligence, insurance-agency valuations, ownership perpetuation, and M&A within the insurance sector.
• If any "investment" activity exists, it would most plausibly be insurance-agency acquisitions/roll-ups and valuation-driven transactions — not technology startups. This should be verified directly with him before treating him as a source of seed capital.