Strava Announces Acquisition of Cycling Training App, The Breakaway.
SAN FRANCISCO - May 22nd, 2025 - Strava, the app for active people, today announced it has acquired the core assets of The Breakaway, the Y Combinator incubated cycling training app. The deal follows the recent news of Strava acquiring Runna, a leading running training app, and signifies further investment in the Strava ecosystem for the platform’s global community of active people.
“Jordan Kobert, Kyle Yugawa and team have built a brilliant app for cyclists who want to improve and achieve their cycling targets, making it a perfect fit for the Strava subscription, which helps users accomplish their goals,” said Michael Martin, chief executive officer, Strava. “When Strava was founded more than 16 years ago, it was created initially for cyclists—these users remain important members of our global community, and we are excited to enhance their experience through this acquisition.”
The Breakaway offers personalized cycling training, innovative ride analysis, and achievement tracking tools, all of which motivate users to be active; Breakaway users who connect to Strava upload twice as many activities compared with other Strava cyclists. With a mission of helping people to improve, the cycling app also closely aligns with Strava’s mission of motivating people to lead an active life.
This announcement is another signal of Strava’s accelerated growth and commitment to innovation. It also demonstrates Strava's continued investment in its developer community and open API, which enables third parties to connect and build new experiences for athletes.
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About The Breakaway
The Breakaway is a cycling app that delivers refined training guidance, benchmarks, gamification and progress tracking for performance-oriented cyclists.
Its mission is to help cyclists unlock the joy of peak performance, stay motivated and on track with simple daily guidance, feedback on every ride, and goal tracking.
Visit www.breakaway.app for more information.