San Francisco’s third tallest building is home to a new tech headquarters.
Strava, the company behind an eponymous exercise app popular among runners and cyclists, officially opened its new headquarters at 181 Fremont St. on Wednesday. The company gobbled up four floors of space that Meta ditched at the SoMa skyscraper in 2023.
The fitness tech startup, valued around $1.5 billion in a 2020 funding round , closed the sublease in August, Michele Bousquet, Strava’s chief people officer, told SFGATE on Friday. But Wednesday was the grand opening — complete with an appearance by Mayor Daniel Lurie and a breathless company news release about the four-floor, 41,000-square-foot office and its thematic designs. One floor, “the Boathouse,” is named in honor of the Harvard University building where Strava’s co-founders first met rowing in the 1980s…