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
Seed	2026-08-03	$2.0B	—	press
—	2026-08-02	$3.5B	—	press

Company	Stage	Raised	Investors	Score
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	—	80
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	79
Emergent AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software.	Funded	$1.5B	—	76
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	74
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	—	74
Fireworks AI Fireworks AI builds a cloud platform for developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune, deploy, and run open-source AI models with high-performance inference infrastructure and APIs.	Series D	$1.5B	—	73
Wrtn Wrtn Technologies builds a Korean-language generative AI platform and consumer app that lets users chat with AI, generate text and images, summarize content, and create personalized AI character interactions for everyday productivity and entertainment.	Series C	$870M	GV	73
Obsidian Security Obsidian Security builds a SaaS and AI application security platform that helps enterprise security teams monitor access across cloud apps, detect identity-based threats, manage misconfigurations, and enforce compliance for tools like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Workday.	Series D	$1.1B	—	70
Reach Capital Reach Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups building technology products for learning, healthcare, and the future of work.	Funded	$265M	—	70
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	—	69

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