About us
Building the world's most powerful data visualization software
At Cambridge Intelligence, we build the world’s most powerful data visualization technologies to make the world safer.
From law enforcement to cyber security and fraud detection, we work with organizations around the globe.
Every day, thousands of analysts rely on our technology to ‘join the dots’ in data and uncover hidden threats.
What’s important to us?
We’re building the most powerful visualization technologies to reveal threats and insights in connected data, driving our mission to make the world safer.
When you work with us, you can expect:
Unique expertise
We’ll work with you to build insightful data visualizations that make the world safer.
Reliability
We’re an accomplished and experienced team, trusted by hundreds of customers worldwide.
A helpful response
We’re always listening to our customers and doing everything we can to help you succeed.
Quality
From our support to our software, we aim for the highest standards in everything we do.
A community
Join our program of online conversations, shaping the future of data visualization.
Making a positive impact on the world
From our charitable donations to our commitments to sustainability and team well-being, we’re building a business that our team is proud to work for, our customers love to deal with, and that feels part of the community.
We’re award winners
We’ve enjoyed our fair share of time on the red carpet, celebrating our success.
We’ve won awards in recognition of our innovation, technical excellence, rapid growth and hard work.
Our Story
At Cambridge Intelligence, we believe that visualizing connections in data will make the world safer.
Until recently, only intelligence agencies and the most secure organizations could visualize connections in data. It required highly-trained analysts and complex specialist software. But as the threat of fraud and cyber-attack has grown, security is now everyone’s priority.
We’re reinventing data visualization techniques to work for everyone, to help organizations secure themselves in the real ‘unclassified’ world.
Here’s our story.
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2011
Cambridge Intelligence was founded by Joe Parry, initially from his kitchen before moving into ideaSpace – the Cambridge University enterprise accelerator. Joe had spent the previous decade building data visualization tools for the intelligence market, but had seen an opportunity for more flexible, lightweight and user-friendly tools.
The location of our first office – ideaSpace West -
2012
The year v1.0 of KeyLines was launched to our first customers in Australia – a long way from our Cambridge startup hub. They were quickly followed by the US Department of Defense and several others, kick-starting our journey.
An early version of the KeyLines website -
2013
Cambridge Intelligence Inc, our US subsidiary, was incorporated in the State of Nevada. We now had 10 customers, including one of the world’s largest payment providers, the US Army, and the UK fraud management authority.
The certificate of incorporation of our US subsidiary, Cambridge Intelligence Inc -
2014
We proudly released KeyLines v2.0 (including the much-loved KeyLines time bar), moved into our own central Cambridge HQ (Intelligence Towers) and held our first Fast Food Friday (later to become Tasty Thursday) beginning a long tradition of team activities involving food.
Developer vs flatpack furniture: an epic battle -
2015
The year we won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and were invited to Buckingham Palace, joined the Prime Minister on a trip to Washington DC, and introduced the world to KeyLines Geospatial – a great new way to visualize networks on maps.
A year of high profile meet & greets – the Queen and Prime Minister -
2016
We supercharged the performance of KeyLines by 5000% with a new WebGL graphics renderer – an enhancement that was recognised by industry giants Gartner. Later that year they named us a ‘Cool Vendor’ in the security software space.
Our new WebGL renderer gave KeyLines a massive performance boost -
2017
We settled into our new Hills Road HQ. We also joined the UpScale program of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies, and held the first meeting of CDVC – our global network of organizations working together to shape the future of connected data visualization.
The first ever meeting of CDVC – bringing KeyLines customers together -
2018
Another busy year, with three CDVC meetings (in the US, UK and Israel), the launch of our graduate program and KeyLines 4.0 release, including our game-changing combos functionality.
KeyLines combos – a great new way to reduce chart clutter and increase data insight -
2019
We launched a brand new product. ReGraph was released – our React toolkit for graph visualization. We also took CDVC to Washington D.C. for the first time.
We released ReGraph, our React SDK -
2020
We released KronoGraph – our JavaScript toolkit for building timelines that drive investigations. We also released v2.0 of ReGraph and v6.0 of KeyLines.
We released KronoGraph, our timeline SDK -
2021
2021 marked a significant milestone at Cambridge Intelligence as we reached our 10 year anniversary. We looked back at some of the top highlights from an incredible decade.
A bottle of commemorative birthday champagne -
2022
We celebrated our success by paying it forward, with donations to three charities that work tirelessly to improve lives in our local community.
Cambridge City Foodbank, Red Balloon and Centre 33 -
2023
In 2023 we made changes in senior management, appointing Bryan Amesbury as our new CEO and reshaping our leadership team to support our next phase of growth. Joe Parry remains closely involved in the business, in his role as chair of the board.
Bryan Amesbury
We have big plans for the future, but our vision remains clear:
To build the world’s best visualization software that makes the world a safer place.
