Streak (company)
| Streak | |
| Company type | Privately held company |
| Industry | Customer relationship management |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | Aleem Mawani Omar Ismail |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Customer relationship management software for Gmail |
| Website | streak |
Streak is the developer of an eponymous customer relationship management platform for Gmail.[1][2] Streak was founded by Aleem Mawani and Omar Ismail[3] and is a graduate of the Y Combinator seed accelerator.[4] The company has received $1.9 million in venture capital from investors including Battery Ventures, Crunchfund, Floodgate, Michael Birch, Chris Sacca, and David Tish.[5] Streak is also the developer of SecureGmail, open-source Google Chrome extension that allows users to encrypt Gmail messages.[6]
History
Streak was founded in 2011 by Aleem Mawani, a former Google product manager,[7] and Omar Ismail to solve their sales needs.[3][4] It was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2011 class[4] and graduated from the accelerator in early 2012.[8] The company held a soft launch of its platform in January 2012.[4] Streak entered open beta in March of that year.[8]
Product
Streak is a spreadsheet-style[8] 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 Streak.[9] Streak was released as an iOS application in August 2013.[11] Streak added email read receipts to its platform in early 2014.[12]
Sources
- ^ Laura Entis (2013-11-26). "Watch Out: This CRM App Just Got Very Personal". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Stowe Boyd (2014-02-18). "Streak is a well designed social CRM inside of Gmail, but is also much more". GigaOM. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ a b Eric Siu (2012-06-26). "3 Stellar Productivity Tools You Need to Try". Mashable. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ a b c d Eric Eldon (2012-03-21). "Y Combinator-Backed Streak.com Takes On Salesforce With A Simple CRM For Gmail". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ "Streak Grabs $1.9M for Email-Based Customer Management". VentureWire. 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ Alan Henry (05-07-2013). "SecureGmail Encrypts Your Gmail Messages with One Click". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Chloe Albanesius (2008-11-21). "Access Google Docs Via Gmail with New Gadget". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c Sarah Mitroff (2012-10-16). "For the Organizer Nerd in Everyone, There's Streak". Wired. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b Alan Henry (2012-03-22). "Streak Supercharges Gmail with Text Expansion, Scheduled Emails, Event Planning, and More". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ Alex Magdaleno (2014-02-20). "Find Out When That Email You Sent Was Read". Mashable. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ Alex Williams (07-08-2013). "Streak's New iPhone App Is A CRM Service With Gmail Baked In". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Victoria Woollaston (2014-02-12). "No excuse not to reply now! Gmail can now tell senders when a recipient opens an email – and even reveal where they were". Daily Mail Online. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
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