Company:Streak
| Streak | |
| 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 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
- ↑ Laura Entis (2013-11-26). "Watch Out: This CRM App Just Got Very Personal". Entrepreneur. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230137. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20140531230435/http://research.gigaom.com/2014/02/218523/. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Alan Henry (July 5, 2013). "SecureGmail Encrypts Your Gmail Messages with One Click". Lifehacker. http://lifehacker.com/securegmail-encrypts-your-gmail-messages-with-one-click-661685010. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Chloe Albanesius (2008-11-21). "Access Google Docs Via Gmail with New Gadget". PC Magazine. http://appscout.pcmag.com/business-financial/274253-access-google-docs-via-gmail-with-new-gadget. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Eric Siu (2012-06-26). "3 Stellar Productivity Tools You Need to Try". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2012/06/26/project-management-tools/. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eric Eldon (2012-03-21). "Y Combinator-Backed Streak.com Takes On Salesforce With A Simple CRM For Gmail". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/gmail-streak/. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sarah Mitroff (2012-10-16). "For the Organizer Nerd in Everyone, There's Streak". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2012/10/crm-for-your-life/. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ "Streak Grabs $1.9M for Email-Based Customer Management". VentureWire. 2012-10-15. http://pevc.dowjones.com/article?an=DJFVW00020121015e8afshgjo&from=alert&pid=32&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fpevc.dowjones.com%2farticle%3fan%3dDJFVW00020121015e8afshgjo%26from%3dalert%26pid%3d32. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Alan Henry (2012-03-22). "Streak Supercharges Gmail with Text Expansion, Scheduled Emails, Event Planning, and More". Lifehacker. http://www.lifehacker.co.in/work/Streak-Supercharges-Gmail-with-Text-Expansion-Scheduled-Emails-Event-Planning-and-More/articleshow/19039954.cms. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Alex Magdaleno (2014-02-20). "Find Out When That Email You Sent Was Read". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2014/02/20/chrome-streak-email/. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Alex Williams (August 7, 2013). "Streak's New iPhone App Is A CRM Service With Gmail Baked In". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/streaks-new-iphone-app-is-a-crm-service-with-gmail-baked-in/. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
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