Interxion receives the Arthur Andersen award for the fastest growing TMC company
Amsterdam, June 28, 2001 - Interxion has received the Andersen Award for the Fastest Growing TMC company today. The award is a recognition of and appreciation for, young, promising and fast growing companies in the TMC (Technology, Media, Communication) sector that have performed extremely well. The award was given today to Bart van den Dries, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Interxion during the Venture Capital 2001 seminar in Rotterdam.
Since the foundation by Bart van den Dries in 1998, the fast growing Interxion secured almost Euro 300 million of financing, the largest private equity financing in the Netherlands in the emerging European internet infrastructure industry in the year 2000. This financing has enabled Interxion, with the largest number of independent Internet Exchange Centers™ (IECs) in European business centers, to fund the development of its business plan to roll out new IECs across Europe and to develop new service offerings for its customers, plus hire additional management and high-level technical staff.
Interxion is the place where the internet lives. European Internet Exchanges including AMS-IX, DE-CIX, LINX and SFINX that jointly represent more than 400 Internet Service Providers, as well as ISPs, ASPs, content providers, content distributors, hosting and telecom companies are using the pan-European managed data services that are supplied through Interxion by independent parties. Interxion has become the leader in the field of European internet infrastructure.
Earlier this year Tornado Insider ranked Interxion as one of the Top 25 emerging private tech companies which will determine the future of digital Europe.
Investors in Interxion include, Goldman Sachs, CSFB, Enron, Continuum Group Ltd, the Baker Communications, Navis Partners V, Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, Morgan Stanley, Paribas Deelnemingen and Residex.