history

Interstellar first saw the light in 2021, when CEO Maarten van Montfoort (1976), CFO Remy Cuny (1976-2023) and CTO David Schaap (1974) launched a collection of six established and ambitious, on-the-rise IT companies.

The newly-founded collection had a simple, yet bold ambition: to become the most relevant IT-company in the Netherlands. That entrepreneurial, ambitious rocket needed fuel to reach the stars, and Dutch independent investment company Quadrum Capital was the perfect match to provide it. They believed in the bold mission Interstellar stood for and have fueled our entrepreneurial ambition since the very beginning. To achieve its mission of becoming the most relevant IT-partner in the Netherlands, Interstellar chose a unique model. It enhanced a powerful group of IT Managed Services Providers (MSPs) with the expert capabilities of specialized IT-companies in cybersecurity (Pinewood, DataExpert), Microsoft cloud (SCCT), and platform solutions (Fundaments). They called this ecosystem “The Interstellar Collection”. Just as you would with fine art or jewelry, they reasoned, bringing the unique, individual parts of the collection together would create valuable combinations tailored to every client’s unique needs. The collection-model really meant 1+1 would equal 3.