Steek (brand)

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Steek
TypePrivate
IndustryTechnology
Founded2002
Defunct2011
FateMerged
HeadquartersBordeaux, France
Key people
, Chairman and managing director, Founder
, Chief Operating Officer, Founder
, Research & Development Director, Founder
Number of employees
40
Websitesteek.com

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[]

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[]

In 2006, Steek raised a Series A round of €2.5 million [13] from [14] and gets first developments with international partners.[citation needed]

Products[]

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[]

References[]

  1. ^ "interview of François-Xavier Rousselot, Neuf Cegetel". Youtube. August 30, 2007.
  2. ^ "Neuf Telecom lance 'Neuf giga' -un service de stockage (in french)". Silicon. February 2, 2006.
  3. ^ "Agematis a conçu Neuf Giga à partir de Steek, pour Neuf Cegetel (in french)". Neteco. September 25, 2007.
  4. ^ "Steekr eAR". Steek. February 8, 2007.
  5. ^ "Orange se met au Web 2.0 et Voila au stockage en ligne (in french)". Echos du net. July 20, 2007.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Orb and Steek demonstrate "Orb Online"". Steek. August 31, 2007.
  8. ^ "PNY associe clé USB et stockage virtuel (in french)". Silicon.fr. July 19, 2007.
  9. ^ "Steek Communication Release". Steek. March 10, 2008.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Press release of the acquisition of Steek by F-.Secure". F-Secure. July 10, 2009.
  12. ^ "Service announcement to users by email newsletter". F-Secure. October 6, 2011.
  13. ^ "Stockage en ligne : Agematis lève 2,5 millions d'euros (in french)". Journal du net. January 15, 2007.
  14. ^ "Innovacom Enterprise Software portfolio". Innovacom. May 11, 2007.
  15. ^ "Easy online backups". Mac World. November 6, 2007.

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