To Our Valued Business Partners:

BOSTON – Bindable, an insurance technology company and national digital agency, has added Nationwide to its alternative distribution platform, enabling both companies to better serve customers through sponsored channels. Through Bindable's multi-carrier solution, customers and business partners will now have access to auto and homeowners quotes from Nationwide.

Just over 10 years ago John Fees and I founded Next Generation Insurance Group (NGI) because we firmly believed the buying patterns of the next generation of consumers would reshape the industry. After a decade of building two InsurTech companies, it is fair to say we were wrong about many things and right about a few. Reflecting on the journey, here are some observations from an entrepreneur and long-time insurance agent coming off ten years of zigzags, pivots, wins, losses and second chances.

These startups are automating pieces within coverage placement for small and midsize businesses.

Technology has been making waves across the insurance value chain, allowing agents and brokers to seamlessly access new products, control user experiences, and offer personalized services to their customers — and that's just on the front end.

The InsurTech businesses featured in this quarter are U.K.-based Simply Business, U.S.-based Bindable, Germany based massUp and U.K.-based Confused.com. All of these companies are delivering their own unique approach, supported by innovative (and appropriate) technology, to all of, or part of, the Quote, Bind, Issue process.

BOSTON (April 9, 2019) – Bindable has launched a new service, Bundle Crusher, as an add-on to Policy Crusher™, Bindable's SaaS platform and CRM for agents.

Boston (March 1, 2019) – Bindable, an insurance technology company transforming the affinity distribution of insurance, today announced a partnership with the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) Global, the for-profit arm of AREAA National—a nonprofit professional trade organization committed to representing the interests of the entire Asian real estate market nationwide.

Boston, San Francisco and New York (November 27, 2018) – Bindable, an insurance technology company whose goal is to transform the affinity distribution of insurance, today announced an investment from EPIC Holdings, the corporate parent overseeing investments across the entire EPIC platform, including EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, and a Wafra advised fund, in conjunction with Motive Partners, a global private equity firm focused on investing in financial technology companies.

BOSTON—MassDrive Insurance Group, the company behind MyLifeProtected, today introduced Bindable™, an insurance technology company whose goal is to transform the affinity distribution of insurance by providing a full stack of innovative, technology-enabled services. This new venture allows for the consolidation of its core services under the Bindable umbrella to better support its evolution into an industry-leading tech services platform.