What a seven years it’s been!

As our CEO Callum Coombes helps mentor a new generation of innovators at East-Anglian hackathon, Sync the City, we look back at the last seven years of Safepoint and how we went from a Norwich competition winner to becoming a multi-award-winning staff safety company

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 7️⃣ – We entered Sync the City hoping to modernise lone worker safety. Our pitch won and we decided to keep going with this new venture.

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 8️⃣ – Building in our spare time, we built a full product beta and rolled out to our first-ever clients. We also launched our new name, Safepoint.

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 9️⃣ – With our first bit of funding from UEA Student Enterprise, we moved into a new office, and started to get notice from organisations like Invest East.

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 0️⃣ – Despite the difficulties of Covid, we picked up major funding from SFC Capital and our unique product started getting recognition –winning an innovation and impact award and being spotlighted by Tech East, the EofE Tech50, and The Telegraph.

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 1️⃣ – As the world opened up, we rolled out our first 24/7 monitoring service and started working with major clients.

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 2️⃣ – We partnered with the amazing ADT UK & Ireland to provide even better protection and launched a new, improved Safepoint App (Which was touted as “the most advanced on the market”)!

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ – We launched our B2C personal safety brand, Callie. Meanwhile, our flagship Safepoint solutions continued to receive acclaim from the trade press!

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 4️⃣ – Our biggest ever year! We won the Business Awards UK Health and Safety Tech Innovation Award, were Highly Commended in Geovation’s “Protection of Life” award, and were spotlighted by Tech Nation‘s Rising Stars. We also released two new innovations: Our all-in-one Lone Worker Device and our handy Location Beacons.

What a seven years it’s been! To all our supporters, partners, contributors and clients, new and old… Thank you!

Here’s to an even better 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 5️⃣ 🎉