Steek (brand)

Steek

Type| Private
Industry| Technology
Fate| Merged
Founded| 2002
Defunct| 2011
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.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.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Funding
* 3 Products
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## 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 Innovacom[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

* File hosting service
* Comparison of file hosting services
* Comparison of online backup services

## References

1. ↑ "interview of François-Xavier Rousselot, Neuf Cegetel". Youtube. August 30, 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vYtK2YYeOI.
2. ↑ "Neuf Telecom lance 'Neuf giga' -un service de stockage (in french)". Silicon. February 2, 2006. http://www.silicon.fr/fr/silicon/news/2006/02/02/neuf-telecom-lance-neuf-giga-service-stockage.
3. ↑ "Agematis a conçu Neuf Giga à partir de Steek, pour Neuf Cegetel (in french)". Neteco. September 25, 2007. http://www.neteco.com/80730-camborde-agematis-neuf-giga-steek-neuf-cegetel.html.
4. ↑ "Steekr eAR". Steek. February 8, 2007. http://www.steek.com/2007/02/08/steek-ears/.
5. ↑ "Orange se met au Web 2.0 et Voila au stockage en ligne (in french)". Echos du net. July 20, 2007. http://www.echosdunet.net/news/breve_4410_orange+se+met+web+20+voila+stockage+ligne.html.
6. ↑ "Agematis to provide Netvibes with personal online storage technology for its millions of users". Reuters. December 12, 2007. https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS164503+12-Dec-2007+MW20071212.
7. ↑ "Orb and Steek demonstrate "Orb Online"". Steek. August 31, 2007. http://www.steek.com/2007/08/31/orb-and-agematis-demonstrate-orb-online/.
8. ↑ "PNY associe clé USB et stockage virtuel (in french)". Silicon.fr. July 19, 2007. http://www.silicon.fr/fr/silicon/news/2007/07/19/pny-associe-cl-usb-stockage.
9. ↑ "Steek Communication Release". Steek. March 10, 2008. http://www.steek.com/2008/03/10/55/.
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. http://www.zataz.com/communique-presse/16771/Steekr-Version-2--steek.html.
11. ↑ "Press release of the acquisition of Steek by F-.Secure". F-Secure. July 10, 2009. http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/about-us/pressroom/news/2009/fs_news_20090710_eng_01.html.
12. ↑ "Service announcement to users by email newsletter". F-Secure. October 6, 2011. http://newsletter.f-secure.com/public/read_message.jsp?&mid=300054158.
13. ↑ "Stockage en ligne : Agematis lève 2,5 millions d'euros (in french)". Journal du net. January 15, 2007. http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/breve/8260/stockage-en-ligne-agematis-leve-2-5-millions-d-euros.shtml.
14. ↑ "Innovacom Enterprise Software portfolio". Innovacom. May 11, 2007. http://www.innovacom.com/portfolio_entsoft.jsp.
15. ↑ "Easy online backups". Mac World. November 6, 2007. http://www.macworld.com/article/60852/2007/09/dec07workingmac.html?t=228.

## External links

* SteekR.com
* SteekR Blog
* Fastupload Website
* Tutorials videos (YouTube channel)

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