Trading name Streak Area served Worldwide Founded 2012 | Website streak.com Founders Aleem Mawani, Omar Ismail | |
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Industry Customer relationship management Profiles | ||
Streak is the developer of an eponymous customer relationship management platform for Gmail. Streak was founded by Aleem Mawani and Omar Ismail and is a graduate of the Y Combinator seed accelerator. The company has received $1.9 million in venture capital from investors including Battery Ventures, Crunchfund, Floodgate, Michael Birch, Chris Sacca, and David Tish. Streak is also the developer of SecureGmail, open-source Google Chrome extension that allows users to encrypt Gmail messages.
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History
Streak was founded in 2011 by Aleem Mawani, a former Google product manager, and Omar Ismail to solve their sales needs. It was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2011 class and graduated from the accelerator in early 2012. The company held a soft launch of its platform in January 2012. Streak entered open beta in March of that year.
Product
Streak is a spreadsheet-style customer relationship management plug-in for Gmail that supports both Google Chrome and Safari web browsers. Users connect the plugin to their Google account via OpenID and do not share their login credentials with Streak. Streak was released as an iOS application in August 2013. Streak added email read receipts to its platform in early 2014.