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| Formerly | AdHarmonics |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public |
| Nasdaq: EVER (Class A) Russell 2000 Index component | |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founders | Seth Birnbaum Tomas Revesz |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Jayme Mendal (CEO) [1] Tomas Revesz (Chief Architect) John Wagner (CFO) |
| Website | everquote |
EverQuote, Inc. is an online insurance marketplace founded in 2011 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
EverQuote began as a marketplace for car insurance but has since expanded to home, health, and life insurance. [2]
EverQuote matches insurance-seekers with companies that others with similar profiles preferred in the past. [3] EverQuote does not directly quote insurance rates. Instead, it selects a few companies whose insurance products were bought by similar drivers in the past, and gives those companies the insurance-seeker's contact information. The company representatives then will quote prices for products they offer. [4]
The company's revenue model is lead generation. Its service is free to insurance-seekers. According to the Boston Globe , "EverQuote collects referral fees from insurance providers when customers buy policies, but it doesn’t allow companies to pay to be included in its recommendations." [3]
EverQuote was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Seth Birnbaum and Tomas Revesz, who met at MIT. [3] Originally named AdHarmonics when it began in 2008, the company changed its name to Everquote in 2011, after creating its online insurance marketplace. [5]
EverQuote was a part of the Cogo Labs incubator program run by the Massachusetts-based venture capital firm Link Ventures. [6] [7] In 2013, the company moved to its own office space.
In May 2015, MicroStrategy founder Sanju Bansal and Vestmark CEO John Lunny became members of the board of directors. [8] In October 2016, EverQuote received $23 million in Series B funding via Savano Capital Partners, Stratim Capital LLC and Oceanic Partners, and T Capital Partners. [9] [10] [11]
In 2017, Everquote added $13 million to its previous $23M funding. At the same time, they added Mira Wilczek, CEO of Cogo Labs at the time, to their board of directors, where she replaced Jonathan Shapiro. [6] Since 2019, Paul Deninger has served as a board member of EverQuote. [12]
In 2020, following the death of company founder Seth Birnbaum, he was replaced as CEO by the company's president Jayme Mendal. [13]
In 2016, EverQuote began an Internet advertising campaign featuring images of two young employees (not always the same two employees,) with text such as "How 2 math grads are disrupting the insurance industry." This juxtaposition suggested to many that the young people in the photo were founders of Everquote. [14] [15]
In response to controversy over the ads, co-founders Birnbaum and Revesz said that the photos were meant to showcase a "young, diverse" team at EverQuote. In March 2017, Everquote stated that they had paused the ads. [14] Everquote said that future ads would end confusion about the roles of the young employees pictured. [15]
In 2016, EverQuote launched a new smartphone app called "EverDrive" to help drivers measure their driving safety, based on five criteria: phone use, speeding, accelerating, cornering and braking. [16] Between 1/4 and 1/3 of drivers using this app upgraded their safety skills, over a period of four months, to earn better scores from the app. [17]
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EverQuote's initial incarnation was as an online marketplace for car insurance. There are currently 70 carriers and 5,000 agencies on the platform.
EverQuote matches consumers with a short list of companies it believes will provide the best fit, based on the profile each new user fills out…"If more drivers close with carrier A than carrier B, that data set is letting me know that carrier A is delivering better pricing and better coverage to that kind of consumer without the consumer or us ever having seen a quote."
Originally founded under the name AdHarmonics in 2008, EverQuote launched its online insurance marketplace in 2011.
Fast-growing online insurance marketplace EverQuote has tacked on $13 million to its previously announced Series B funding round, bringing the total amount to $36 million.
The software recommends carriers based on the consumer's risk profile and information on which carriers consumers with similar profiles have chosen in the past. EverQuote handles 5 million consumer visits per month and has made 50 million referrals resulting in over $3 billion of premiums for agents and their carriers, according to its announcement.
Seth Birnbaum, the entrepreneur co-founder and chief executive officer of the Cambridge, Mass.-based online insurance marketplace EverQuote, passed away on Nov. 28.
EverQuote's head of communications told Yahoo Finance the company is in the process of removing the ad with Armin. Moreover, the spokesperson said the company paused the campaign two weeks ago.
"The level of preconceived design and thought that you seem to want to apply to this was simply nonexistent. We had a team of campaign managers who are diverse in gender and race and background — but many of whom are Boston grads — come up with this idea and design it."
Those who use EverQuote's Everdrive app -- which rates drivers on five factors: phone use, speeding, accelerating, cornering and braking -- show a 31% improvement after using the app, according to the company. The data comes from 25,000 drivers, with over 30 million miles tracked, who used the Everdrive app during a four-month period.