At a glance
- Business
- Product
- Size
- Headcount not disclosed
- Founded
- 2009
- Ownership
- Private
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Offices
- 1 office
- Website
- strava.com
- Careers
- jobs.ashbyhq.com/strava
About
Strava was founded in 2009 by Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath, who met on a university rowing team. It is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, and in March 2025 it moved into a new global headquarters at 181 Fremont Street. It bought the running app Runna and the cycling app Breakaway in 2025.
It builds the social network for athletes: activity tracking from phones and watches, segments and leaderboards, routes, maps, the Strava Metro data program for city planners, and a subscription with training and analysis tools. Its press site cites more than 150 million athletes in over 190 countries in 2025 and 195 million in 2026. The backend moved from a Rails monolith to services in Scala, Ruby and Go, and current job ads name Python, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes and Snowflake.
Strava does not publish a headcount. Its job board lists roles in San Francisco, New York, London, Dublin and Denver, and its press release names Berlin, Paris and Sao Paulo among the places it is strengthening.
Tags
FitnessSports tech