Question 1

What is Steek?

Accepted Answer

Steek is an AI-powered competitive intelligence platform that lets you research any market, competitor, or trend in 30 seconds. It monitors 40+ premium sources and generates deep analysis with competitive landscapes, key findings, action items, and foresight reports â€” all with citations.

Question 2

How does Steek work?

Accepted Answer

Pick any market signal, trend, or topic. Steek instantly generates a deep competitive research report including executive summary, key findings, competitive landscape analysis, action items, and risk assessment â€” drawing from 40+ premium sources with full citations.

Question 3

Who is Steek for?

Accepted Answer

Steek is built for product managers, strategists, researchers, and decision-makers who need fast, reliable competitive intelligence. If you spend hours researching markets, competitors, or trends â€” Steek does it in 30 seconds.

Question 4

What types of research can Steek generate?

Accepted Answer

Steek generates five types of intelligence: Quick Insights (instant signal analysis), Deep Research (comprehensive reports with competitive landscape), Foresight Reports (trend predictions and strategic forecasting), Visual Maps (interactive concept diagrams), and Video Intelligence (key takeaways from video content).

Question 5

Is Steek free to use?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Steek offers a free tier with generous quotas for all features including competitive research, quick insights, foresight analysis, visual maps, and shareable report links. Premium plans unlock higher quotas and advanced features.

Question 6

How fast is Steek compared to manual research?

Accepted Answer

Steek generates a full competitive research report â€” with executive summary, key findings, competitive landscape, action items, and citations â€” in about 30 seconds. The same analysis would typically take a human analyst 3-5 hours.

Round	Date	Amount	Valuation	Source
—	2026-09-18	$72M	—	press
—	2026-09-17	$72M	—	press

Company	Stage	Raised	Investors	Score
Wonderful The Wonderful Company grows, harvests, bottles, packages, and markets consumer food and beverage products including pistachios, citrus, bottled water, flowers, wines, and juices through brands such as Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, and Teleflora.	Funded	$5.0B	—	77
Profound Profound builds an enterprise platform that helps brands monitor, analyze, and improve how they appear in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.	Series D	$1.8B	—	76
Index Ventures Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm that invests in and supports early-stage and growth-stage technology startups from seed funding through IPO.	Seed	$3.5B	Index Ventures, NEA, Addition	74
Higgsfield Higgsfield builds an AI video and image creation platform that lets creators, marketers, and filmmakers generate and edit cinematic social media content and ads from text, images, or existing footage using multiple generative video models in one workspace.	Series B	$5.4B	GV, DST Global	74
Stoke Space Stoke Space builds fully reusable orbital rockets, including its Nova launch vehicle, to provide lower-cost and rapidly reusable access to space for satellite launches and space logistics missions.	Funded	$1.0B	—	73
Temporal	Growth	$12.6B	—	73
Socure Socure builds an AI-powered identity verification and fraud-risk platform that helps banks, fintechs, government agencies, and online businesses verify consumers and businesses, detect fraud, and manage compliance during onboarding and authentication.	Growth	$5.2B	—	72
Velaura AI Velaura AI builds ultra-low-power silicon and software infrastructure for AI accelerators used in data centers, edge devices, and physical AI systems such as robotics, aiming to improve AI compute energy efficiency.	Series A	$1.0B	GV	71
Tripo AI Tripo AI builds an AI-powered 3D modeling platform and API that converts text prompts or images into editable, game-ready and print-ready 3D models for creators, game developers, designers, and XR workflows.	Series B	$446M	Google	71
Callosum Callosum builds software infrastructure and APIs that optimize and route AI workloads across different AI models and heterogeneous chips, helping enterprises run inference systems faster and more cost‑efficiently.	Seed	$100M	—	68

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