Streak (company)

Streak
Streak
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryCustomer relationship management
Founded2012
FounderAleem Mawani
Omar Ismail
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsCustomer relationship management software for Gmail
Websitestreak.com

Streak is an American software company which is the developer of an eponymous customer relationship management platform for Gmail.[1][2] The company also developed Secure Mail for Gmail, an open-source Google Chrome extension that allowed users to encrypt their Gmail messages.[3]

History

Streak was founded in 2011 by Aleem Mawani, a former Google product manager,[4] and Omar Ismail.[5][6] It was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2011 class[6] and graduated from the accelerator in early 2012.[7] It has received $1.9 million in venture capital.[8] The company held a soft launch of its platform in January 2012;[6] it entered open beta in March of that year.[7]

Product

Streak is a spreadsheet-style[7] customer relationship management plug-in for Gmail that supports both Google Chrome and Safari web browsers.[9][10] Users connect the plugin to their Google account via OpenID and do not share their login credentials with the program.[9] Streak was released as an iOS application in August 2013.[11] It added email read receipts to its platform in early 2014.

Sources

  1. ^ Laura Entis (2013-11-26). "Watch Out: This CRM App Just Got Very Personal". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  2. ^ Stowe Boyd (2014-02-18). "Streak is a well designed social CRM inside of Gmail, but is also much more". GigaOM. Archived from the original on 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  3. ^ Alan Henry (July 5, 2013). "SecureGmail Encrypts Your Gmail Messages with One Click". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  4. ^ Chloe Albanesius (2008-11-21). "Access Google Docs Via Gmail with New Gadget". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  5. ^ Eric Siu (2012-06-26). "3 Stellar Productivity Tools You Need to Try". Mashable. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  6. ^ a b c Eric Eldon (2012-03-21). "Y Combinator-Backed Streak.com Takes On Salesforce With A Simple CRM For Gmail". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  7. ^ a b c Sarah Mitroff (2012-10-16). "For the Organizer Nerd in Everyone, There's Streak". Wired. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  8. ^ "Streak Grabs $1.9M for Email-Based Customer Management". VentureWire. 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  9. ^ a b Alan Henry (2012-03-22). "Streak Supercharges Gmail with Text Expansion, Scheduled Emails, Event Planning, and More". Lifehacker. Archived from the original on 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  10. ^ Alex Magdaleno (2014-02-20). "Find Out When That Email You Sent Was Read". Mashable. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  11. ^ Alex Williams (August 7, 2013). "Streak's New iPhone App Is A CRM Service With Gmail Baked In". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-05-14.