The story
InsWeb was founded in 1995 by Hussein A. Enan and Darrell Ticehurst and became a publicly traded company in 1999. As of its IPO date it was the exclusive provider of auto insurance quotes on the Yahoo! internet portal.
In 2011, the primary business was sold to Bankrate. The unpurchased assets became the Internet Patents Corp which then changed its name to Prism Technologies.
From Wikipedia’s article on InsWeb, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3