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Strava taps AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, unveils ‘family’ plan, dark mode and more
Strava announced a slew of features, including AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, a new ‘family’ subscription plan, dark mode and more.
After year-long search, Strava appoints YouTube exec Michael Martin as new CEO
Strava has finally announced who its next CEO will be, almost a year after confirming that co-founder Michael Horvath was leaving the hotseat for a second time. Michael Martin will…
Strava is taking one big step closer to becoming a true social network, as the fitness-tracking platform introduces in-app messaging to let users send private one-to-one and group messages. The new…
Strava launches Flyover, an aerial 3D video recap of all your GPS activities
Strava is introducing a new feature called Flyover, which allows users to replay their activities via a 3D video map. Flyover is powered by Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform that…
Strava launches integration with Spotify to let users listen to content while tracking activities
Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has announced a new in-app integration with Spotify. The integration allows users to easily…
Strava searches for new CEO with co-founder Michael Horvath departing for a second time
Strava is on the hunt for a new CEO, after Michael Horvath revealed that he’s stepping down from the role for a second time. Horvath co-founded Strava back in 2009,…
Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors
Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap, a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform…
Snapchat now lets you share your Strava activities in snaps and stories
Snapchat is partnering with activity and fitness tracking platform Strava to launch a new Lens that lets users share their fitness journey on Snapchat. The new Strava Activity Lens works…
A Strava co-founder races into a lucrative market – lending against life insurance
Mark Shaw likes running around. The serial entrepreneur joined activity and fitness tracking platform Strava as a co-founder in 2009 to lead engineering as CTO. He spent eight years there,…
Cadoo, a US-startup that’s gamifying fitness by turning it into a betting opportunity, using the prospect of winning (or losing) cold hard cash to motivate people to get off the…
Forward-thinking entrepreneurs and growth marketers simply must make time to study their competition, learn best practices and apply them to their own business growth.
Some of the most popular running apps are still lagging behind on security and privacy. That’s the verdict from security researchers who examined the leading running apps five years apart…
Strava raises $110 million, touts growth rate of 2 million new users per month in 2020
Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone…
A developer of therapy devices for athletes is now worth $700 million thanks to superstar backers like Naomi Osaka
A crew of high-wattage celebrity athletes have teamed up to invest $47.8 million into Hyperice, a developer of medical devices designed to help players and fitness buffs recover after workouts or…
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Founders can raise funding before launching a product
It’s possible to raise VC funding even if you haven’t built a real product, according to Charles Hudson, founder and managing partner at seed-stage firm Precursor Ventures. It’s just very, very difficult. I interviewed Hudson during TechCrunch Early Stage, our virtual event for startup founders. He gave a short talk titled “How to sell an…
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Meet TezLab, the Fitbit for Tesla vehicles
Some of the best real-time insights into Tesla and its global fleet of electric vehicles — outside the confines of its Silicon Valley headquarters — might be through the lens of TezLab, a tiny upstart in Brooklyn. Now, a little more than two years after its founding, TezLab is on the verge of hitting what…
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CFIUS Cometh: What this obscure agency does and why it matters to your fund or startup
On January 12, 2016, Grindr announced it had sold a 60% controlling stake in the company to Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming firm, valuing the company at $155 million…
Zwift CEO Eric Min on fitness-gaming and bringing esports into the Olympics
The rumored IPO plans of $4 billion spinning brand Peloton marks the rise of a wave of interactive fitness startups like Mirror, Tonal, Hydrow and At Home 360 that combine a…
Mike Ghaffary left Social Capital in August, shortly before the firm announced it would no longer raise outside capital.
Google Fit gets a redesign, adds Heart Points and coaching
Google Fit is getting a major update today. The company’s activity tracking app has been around for a few years now but until today, it pretty much worked and looked…
Strava appears to have disabled a key tracking feature over privacy concerns
This will come as no surprise to those who’ve been following the news of the past couple of weeks, but it appears that Strava’s disabled at least one top feature…
Strava says it will simplify privacy settings and review app features after exposing military bases
Fitness app Strava has said it will review its privacy settings and features after it was found to have exposed the location of military bases across the world by releasing…
US military reviewing tech use after Strava privacy snafu
The U.S. military has responded to privacy concerns over a heatmap feature in the Strava app which displays users’ fitness activity — and has been shown exposing the location of…
Fitness app Strava exposes the location of military bases
Strava, the popular app for tracking running, cycling and swimming, is not the most obvious go-to for exposing national secrets, but a heatmap of activity from users has been found to…
Strava launches posts to bring athletes back for everything else beyond their workouts
When you walk upstairs at the Strava offices over on Third Street in San Francisco, you’ll find boards as tall as your typical human. They’re covered with images — screenshots…
Instagram VP Kevin Weil joins board of social fitness app Strava
If you’re trying to build the Instagram for exercise, it helps to have the guy building Instagram for Instagram. That’s why Strava has added Instagram head of product Kevin Weil…
Zwift, a multiplayer game that’s making indoor athletics more social, just raised $27 million
If you haven’t heard of Zwift, founded two years ago in Long Beach, Ca., you aren’t alone. But investors have been following the company. Its massive, multiplayer video game technology, which caters to…
Garmin brings Strava’s safety system to its fitness wearables
Over the summer, fitness social network Strava introduced Beacon, a safety feature designed to offer peace of mind to the friends and families of long distance runners know they’re stating…
Strava adds a real-time safety feature to its fitness tracking app
The official promo for Strava’s new beacon feature shows a runner attempting to outpace a giant boulder — something I suspect isn’t too common an occurrence unless you’re Indiana Jones or Wile…
How to train your human, part II: Products that make habits last
In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how…
