Intrepid’s journey started on December 31st, 2010 when Alex Preston and Matt Glace founded the company to build applications using Microsoft Technologies. The company originally focused on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 applications and building a hosted service using Microsoft Pivot Viewer. The latter was the inspiration for the original name of the company “Pivot Engine”.
Technology consulting was also a main driver of initial business where Microsoft .NET development was the main offering.
Other Notable Accomplishments & Projects
First office, subletting from “Front Room” on Charlotte Road, near Old Street
The first 2 additions to the team - Daf Davies and Azim Palmer
The first major consulting project for the company was for the British Airports Authority/Heathrow Airport. Intrepid built a ground traffic control system situational awareness platform for air traffic controllers. This became the flagship project for this era and officially launched the company to the next level.
Built a data point visualisation and monitoring system to support the excavation and engineering work for the Cross Rail project a major new railway line running across London through QuantumBlack (the line is now known as the Elizabeth Line).
Competed in the Level-39 FinServ incubator in Canary Wharf and built the ‘3 People’ application.
We sold our first “as a Service” offering to QuantumBlack for hosting their DevOps processes on our TeamCity server. QuantumBlack would become a major recurring account for Intrepid.
We established our first major alliance partner JP Reis, a global leader in unified communications for financial services.
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