Steek (company)
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Defunct | 2011 |
| Fate | Merged |
| Headquarters | Bordeaux, France |
Key people | Christophe Camborde, Chairman and managing director, Founder Yannick Lacastaigneratte, Chief Operating Officer, Founder Arnaud Roudsovsky, Research & Development Director, Founder |
Number of employees | 40 |
| Website | steek |
Steek was a private technology startup based in France. Its services included online file hosting, file sharing, and automated backup services to telecom operators, ISPs, and portals.
History
[edit]Steek was founded in 2001 to develop data management products for the individuals and for small and medium-sized businesses (Small office/home office/SOHO market). The company spent the first two years in research and development.
In 2004, Steek launched its first product targeted at the SOHO market, Yellow Backup, as a data management service using broadband networks.
In 2005, Steek developed a service for the customers of a telecom network, a data sharing tool scheduled for implementation at Neuf Cegetel.[1][2][3]
On February 15, 2007, Steek launched SteekR, an online storage and sharing space[4] and provided Orange's portal Voila.fr a similar platform called "MaClé".[5] At the end of 2007, Steek provided Netvibes a similar platform as well to be used on the site's centralized and user pages.[6] With Orb, Steek provided online storage to allow for content streaming without using PCs.[7] Steek partnered with PNY in order to provide additional online storage to the storage USB key bought by retail customers.[8]
At the beginning of 2008, Steek announced[9] that the company will operate only under the "Steek" brand name and that the Agematis name will no longer be used. In April, Steek announced a new version SteekR V2 of its online storage and sharing space.[10]
On July 10, 2009 F-Secure announced the acquisition of Steek.[11]
F-Secure officially discontinued SteekR service on December 31, 2011.[12]
Funding
[edit]In 2006, Steek raised a Series A round of €2.5 million [13] from Innovacom[14] and gets first developments with international partners.[citation needed]
Products
[edit]Steek's products include:
- SteekUP: automated online backup.[15]
- SteekR: online data storage, including music, photos, videos, and other data files which could be streamed or played without downloading. Users could access files with a cell phone or IP TV and could use the content in blogs and RSS feeds.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "interview of François-Xavier Rousselot, Neuf Cegetel". Youtube. August 30, 2007.
- ^ "Neuf Telecom lance 'Neuf giga' -un service de stockage (in french)". Silicon. February 2, 2006.
- ^ "Agematis a conçu Neuf Giga à partir de Steek, pour Neuf Cegetel (in french)". Neteco. September 25, 2007.
- ^ "Steekr eAR". Steek. February 8, 2007.
- ^ "Orange se met au Web 2.0 et Voila au stockage en ligne (in french)". Echos du net. July 20, 2007.
- ^ "Agematis to provide Netvibes with personal online storage technology for its millions of users". Reuters. December 12, 2007. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008.
- ^ "Orb and Steek demonstrate "Orb Online"". Steek. August 31, 2007.
- ^ "PNY associe clé USB et stockage virtuel (in french)". Silicon.fr. July 19, 2007.
- ^ "Steek Communication Release". Steek. March 10, 2008.
- ^ "Steek annonce la version 2 de SteekR, sa solution de stockage et de partage de fichiers en ligne. SteekR V2 facilite l'accès aux contenus numériques et accentue son orientation Web 2.0. (in french)". Zataz. March 25, 2007.
- ^ "Press release of the acquisition of Steek by F-.Secure". F-Secure. July 10, 2009.
- ^ "Service announcement to users by email newsletter". F-Secure. October 6, 2011.
- ^ "Stockage en ligne : Agematis lève 2,5 millions d'euros (in french)". Journal du net. January 15, 2007.
- ^ "Innovacom Enterprise Software portfolio". Innovacom. May 11, 2007.
- ^ "Easy online backups". Mac World. November 6, 2007.