Berlin/Dusseldorf, 23 October 2008 – eleven, Germany’s leading e-mail security specialist is one of the three fastest-growing technology companies in the last five years, as confirmed at this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 competition, which announced its winners last night in Dusseldorf. In the period 2003 to 2007, eleven achieved corporate growth of 4710 percent, securing second place in this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 competition. Rankings are based on accumulated percentual growth rates from 2003 to 2007. The average accumulated growth rates of all this year’s Fast 50 companies worked out at 913 percent. More than 300 companies submitted applications.

“Our growth over recent years stems from our technological edge in the field of e-mail security. With our unique technology that safeguards companies’ business-related e-mail communication in all circumstances, provides reliable protection from spam and other malware, and avoids loss of important e-mails we have been able to maintain a position in a highly competitive market, and to seize a leading position in the German market,” explains Robert Rothe, eleven founder and CEO.

eleven’s eXpurgate technology for protection against spam and other malware is based on an innovative and to-date globally unique process: A special digital fingerprint process makes it possible to determine with a high level of certainty whether an e-mail is part of a bulk mailing – a key characteristic of spam. With a spam recognition rate of more than 99 percent, a false-positive rate (legitimate mails incorrectly identified as spam) of less than 0.00001 percent and a checking speed of more than 1000 e-mails a second, eleven’s solutions are unsurpassed in the e-mail security field.

Dieter Schlereth, a partner at Deloitte, and Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications, “Our ranking this year plainly illustrates that we are standing at the brink of a new era of convergence between conventional and alternative technologies. “Specialized technology innovations are dominating the end-consumer and the business market, as demonstrated by the impressive growth figures shown by our Fast 50 nominated companies, the Rising Stars and the Sustained Excellence prize winners.”