Strategic partnerships. Insurance, technology, and experience become leading platforms.
Waypoint Ventures invests, partners, and refers opportunities alongside carriers, markets, MGAs, and program builders, helping them deploy and grow faster with technology that reshapes how insurance is designed, distributed, and delivered. We bring relationships, experience, capital, proprietary technology, and deep specialty expertise to build with you.
Why Waypoint Ventures
The future of insurance belongs to exclusive products built for specific niches and to the early movers who build them.
The legacy portion of the industry still grows the old way: leaning on carrier relationships, chasing contingencies, and running small niches/programs on spreadsheets and email. That model rents growth. We believe in owning it and today, owning it means owning the technology.
The programs that win the next decade will be built as platforms: insurance embedded where the customer already does business, priced with better data, and distributed through software instead of phone calls. Waypoint Ventures exists to back the builders who see it the same way. We invest our own capital, put our technology and product teams to work, and stand alongside our partners as they build programs that scale. We also pair insurance products and capacity with technology as often technology isn’t needed until MGAs and others have exclusive coverage and risk management solutions.
Who We Partner With
We look for people who are building something, not just placing business.
- Insurtech founders building software, data, or embedded-insurance products around an underserved industry or class of business.
- Vertical SaaS companies whose customers need insurance and who want to offer it inside their platform.
- MGAs and program managers ready to move from a book of business to a proprietary, tech-enabled product they control.
- Large agencies sitting on a concentration in a niche that deserves its own exclusive program and the technology to run it.
- Carriers and capacity partners looking for disciplined, data-driven program builders to grow with.
What We Bring
Proprietary technology
Waypoint builds technology for multiple niches. Our partners get software, data, and infrastructure most programs never have access to and they don’t have to build it from scratch.
Capital that’s aligned
We invest our own money in the programs and platforms we build. When you win, we win and we’re in it for the long haul.
Data-driven product design
We analyze your book, find the niche where you have a real edge, and build an exclusive, proprietary product that is designed from day one to run on technology.
Distribution and sales enablement
A great product needs to be sold well. We deliver the product along with the digital tools and sales training to take it to market.
Our Technology
Technology isn’t a feature of our programs. It’s the foundation. Every partnership is built to run on software from day one.
Embedded insurance
We put coverage directly inside the platforms where businesses already operate, so insurance is bought at the point of need not chased after the fact.
Vertical SaaS for niche industries
We build and back software that solves a real operating problem for a specific industry, with insurance built in as a natural part of the product.
Data-driven underwriting and pricing
We turn operating and policy data into sharper risk selection, better pricing, and products carriers want to back.
Digital distribution
Online communities, quoting tools, and producer platforms that help agents find, sell, and service niche business at scale.
Program infrastructure
The rating, workflow, and reporting tools a program needs to run efficiently and give capacity partners real-time visibility.
The result: programs that grow faster, run leaner, and are far harder for competitors to copy.
How We Partner
Conversation
We learn your business, your book or platform, and where you want to take it.
Data review
We dig into your data to find the niche where you already have an edge and where technology can widen it.
Build
Together we design the exclusive product, the software that delivers it, and the capacity to support it.
Launch
We deploy the technology and equip your team with the product and sales training to bring it to market.
Scale
We stay invested with capital, engineering, and effort as the program grows.
Built By A Technology Founder And An Insurance Founder In One
Waypoint Ventures is led by Adam Besnard, CEO of Waypoint Specialty. His career splits between two worlds: the first half founding and running a technology company, the second half founding and scaling insurance businesses. That combination is exactly what insurtech partnerships demand.
The technology half
Adam earned his degree in Management Information Systems, with a minor in Computer Science, from Florida State University. He started at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), advising Fortune 100 companies on enterprise transformation, process optimization, and technology integration. At 25, he founded Galleon Solutions and led it as CEO for nine years, delivering ERP implementations, business process redesign, and IT consulting to Fortune 100 clients worldwide.
The insurance half
In 2008 Adam brought that operator’s mindset to insurance. As CEO of Besnard Insurance, niche program premium grew from $5 million to more than $200 million. Along the way he launched niche MGA/MGU platforms, became a Lloyd’s coverholder, and built technology-driven underwriting and placement tools.
Why it matters to our partners
Most insurance leaders hire technology. Most tech founders learn insurance the hard way. Adam has built both from the ground up. He knows how to architect the software, and he knows how to make the program profitable. Waypoint Ventures puts that rare combination to work alongside you.
Building the technology that will change how insurance works?
Let’s talk. If you have the platform, the niche, or the book of business then we have the capital, technology, and specialty expertise to help you build it.