Streak (company)

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]

Streak

Trade name	Streak
Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Customer relationship management
Founded	2012
Founder	Aleem Mawani Omar Ismail
Headquarters	San Francisco, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Customer relationship management software for Gmail
Website	streak.com

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. 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. 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. 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.