| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.12.2025 | Cowboy seals majority-stake deal with ReBirth to restart production and stabilise operations | Brussels e-bike company Cowboy has officially closed its deal with ReBirth Group Holding SA — the French mobility group behind renowned cycling brands including Peugeot, Gitane, and Solex.
This agreement signals a significant new phase for ... |
| 19.02.2025 | Belgian ebike company Cowboy shifts assembly operations to France | Today, Belgian e-bike company Cowboy announced that it had fully moved its assembly operations to France.
The shift comes as part of Cowboy’s response to global supply chain disruptions that impacted the entire industry. Unlike brands that ... |
| 09.10.2024 | Belgium's tech ecosystem maturing: key findings from the 2024 State of Belgian Tech Report | Syndicate One, Bain & Company and Sofina have joined forces to conduct data-driven and qualitative research into Belgium’s maturing technology startup and investment ecosystems.
The first result, the inaugural ‘State of Belgian Tech Rep... |
| 13.06.2024 | Belgium: Nurturing tech talent and entrepreneurship in the heart of Europe | Strategically located in the heart of Europe, Belgium leverages its multilingual and highly educated workforce to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. The nation's tech scene boasts a robust mix of startups, scale-ups, and established co... |
| 19.03.2024 | Cowboy launches all-road electric bike to attract riders beyond European city centers | Cowboy is better known for its sleek electric bikes that you can see in many major cities across Europe. And if you look at the persons riding those Cowboy bikes, most of the time, you’ll see a young adult heading to an office with a laptop... |
| 08.02.2024 | Cowboy allays e-bike riders’ greatest fears with on-demand repairs and tune-ups | Cowboy is rolling out a new repairs and service program designed to give its e-bike riders more ways to keep their wheels on the road.
The new service option is more reassurance to European Cowboy riders eager to keep their e-bikes on the r... |
| 05.10.2023 | ‘Be optimistic and innovate’ — The legacy of Cowboy founder and e-bike pioneer Karim Slaoui, who has passed away | Cowboy, the e-bike startup that creates innovative electric bikes for city riders, has announced that Karim Slaoui, co-founder (pictured above, right), has passed away. Karim stepped down from the board and the day-to-day running of Cowboy ... |
| 05.10.2023 | In memoriam — Cowboy’s Karim Slaoui | It's with great sadness that we share the news that Karim Slaoui, co-founder of Belgian e-bike company Cowboy, has died aged 36.
He passed away on Friday last week. Karim was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, a synovial sarcoma, in 2019... |
| 05.10.2023 | Bastille challenges the iconic Brompton bikes with a new folding bicycle | Meet Bastille, a new French company that wants to challenge Brompton, the most emblematic brand for folding bicycles. The main difference with the British manufacturer is that Bastille wants to design a folding bike with normal wheels inste... |
| 03.10.2023 | HCVC is back with a new $75 million deep tech fund | Paris-based VC firm HCVC just announced the final closing of its second fund, simply called “Fund II.” And the team has managed to raise $75 million (€69 million) so that it can back pre-seed and seed companies in Europe and North America.
... |
| 22.07.2023 | An AI-generated ‘South Park’ episode, Microsoft’s security woes, and Tesla’s first Cybertruck build | Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the past week in tech. Too busy to check the headlines this week? Don’t sweat it. That’s why WiR exists — we’ll get you caught up to speed.
This edition of WiR fea... |
| 17.07.2023 | Owners of troubled VanMoof e-bikes get their software keys from rival company | Enlarge / VanMoof's X3 bike in 2020. In our review, we noted that its looks garnered "universal drool," while everything else ranged "from serviceable to questionable."
Sam Machkovech reader comments 52 with
VanMoof e-bi... |
| 13.07.2023 | Cowboy rides to the rescue of VanMoof owners with app to unlock threatened bikes | Since struggling e-bike startup VanMoof confirmed it had gone into the Dutch version of administration, there has been a question hanging over the VanMoof bikes out there in the wild. These bikes relied heavily on a connected smartphone app... |
| 07.07.2023 | The best electric bikes in 2023 for every type of rider | With summer well underway and a federal e-bike incentive back on the Congress floor, it’s time to start thinking about electric bikes — and what might be the best one for you and your lifestyle.
We’ve rounded up the best e-bikes for your sp... |
| 02.07.2023 | Cowboy goes Dutch with its latest e-bike, the Cruiser | Belgian e-bike company Cowboy has launched a new bike, the Cruiser - an answer to the request for a Dutch styled bike.
“It was basically the request of the riders, they wanted to have better navigation – but also a more comfortable riding p... |
| 30.05.2023 | First they worked in tandem, now they’re in an e-bike patent suit | Grenoble-based eBikeLabs, a French startup that has been working on embedded software for electric bikes, is suing Cowboy for patent infringement and, more generally, copying eBikeLabs’ technology in its latest feature, AdaptivePower. Cowbo... |
| 09.03.2023 | E-bike maker Cowboy raises new funding round and launches AdaptivePower | Brussels-based startup Cowboy has been in the news lately for its cash burn rate. But the company wants to control its narrative again with some product and business news. Cowboy is launching a new feature called “AdaptivePower,” which auto... |
| 08.03.2023 | Cowboy brings AdaptivePower to its ebikes and shows why community building is critical to D2C sales | Today Belgium ebike company Cowboy launched AdaptivePower, a technology that senses changes in the rider's environmental conditions in real-time, adjusting the power depending on the hill, wind or weight.
Tanguy Goretti, Co-Founder and CTO,... |
| 31.01.2023 | Superstrata e-bike review: Rebel without a cause | Superstrata’s e-bike is a strange specimen — there’s no two ways about it.
In some ways that makes sense; the bike’s concept, borne out in seamless 3D-printed carbon fiber, springs from an equally strange premise. We’ll get into that.
Talki... |
| 10.11.2022 | Minimalist’s E-Bike Dream | With its fourth-generation e-bike, which started shipping early this year, the Belgian-based startup Cowboy has created a minimalist’s dream: the C4 is sleek and buttonless, with a matte frame and not one single visible cable. The C4’s stri... |
| 28.04.2022 | Unicorn spotting in Brussels: These are the biggest European scale-ups joining us for the Tech.eu Summit | The agenda for the first edition of the Tech.eu Summit is out, and let's call it like it is, the speaker line-up is pretty stellar.
As we gear up for a day chock-full of inspiration and education, here's an overview of European tech unicorn... |
| 27.04.2022 | How do you cultivate culture while scaling rapidly? Our Tech.eu Summit speakers have the answers | Scaling up at a breakneck pace is exhilarating but a startup's culture can get trampled in the rush, and that may come back to haunt when it comes to attracting and keeping the best talent.
How do you hire for culture fit and keep that aliv... |
| 27.01.2022 | Brussels-based Cowboy raises over €70 million to grow the e-bike revolution | Electric bike designer Cowboy has just raised over €71 million as they continue to encourage a circular economy alongside sustainable mobility. The round is led by Exor, HCVC and Siam Capital, with investments from Tiger Global, Index Ventu... |
| 27.01.2022 | Belgian e-bike startup Cowboy raises €71.3M from Tiger Global, Index Ventures, others | Brussels-based Cowboy, a designer and manufacturer of electric bikes for urban riders, announced on Thursday that it has raised $80M (approx €71.31M) in its Series C round of funding. With this round, the company has now raised a total of $... |
| 26.01.2022 | Cowboy raises $80M to take its e-bike business up a gear | The pandemic spurred a boom in electric bikes and other alternative urban transportation modes as city dwellers looked for less-crowded ways to get around their streets quickly and easily without resorting to cars. Now, one of the companies... |
| 13.01.2022 | The Cowboy 3 Is The Slickest, Smoothest E-Bike Around, But It’s Not Cheap | There is a little acknowledged formula that almost every health procrastinator has quietly experienced. It goes something like this: Bikes + hills + peer pressure from onlookers = killing yourself cycling up a hill because you don’t want to... |
| 27.09.2021 | The Station: Tesla rolls out its FSD beta button, delivery deals heat up, micromobility evolves | Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
Aria and Rebecca have a lot to share this week, so I’ll keep my intro short. I want to dir... |
| 08.05.2021 | Cowboy launches the Cowboy 4 e-bike, with a step-through version and built-in phone charger | E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through.
The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, w... |
| 08.12.2020 | 15 Gifts For Gadget Lovers Who Already Have All The Gadgets | We all have those people in the family who are hard to buy gifts for. They already have all the technology they want. They discover new gadgets before we have the chance to gift them. |
| 25.11.2020 | As e-bikes boom, FuroSystems raises its first venture funding round ahead of a new model launch | With COVID-19 making commuters switch to bikes, and cities wanting cleaner air, the e-bike revolution is only just getting started. Further evidence of this is the news that today British e-bike manufacturer FuroSystems has closed its first... |
| 24.07.2020 | European electric-bike maker Cowboy bags €23M funding | The startup manufactures first-class electric bikes and sells them directly to consumers around Europe. Cowboy was founded in Brussels in 2017 by entrepreneurs Adrien Roose, Karim Slaoui and Tanguy Goretti. |
| 23.07.2020 | Electric-bike maker Cowboy raises $26 million | Cowboy has raised a $26 million (€23 million) Series B funding round from Exor Seeds, HCVC, Isomer Capital, Future Positive Capital and Index Ventures. The startup has been manufacturing premium electric bikes and selling them directly to c... |
| 23.07.2020 | Belgian electric bike startup Cowboy raises €23M | At a time when the bike sales are booming as people all over the world want to save the environment as well as stop wasting the available space to park their car, several smart e-bike startups have mushroomed with permanent solutions. Event... |
| 23.07.2020 | Belgian e-bike company Cowboy snags €23 million Series B to continue European expansion | Brussels-based e-bike company Cowboy has secured €23 million in Series B funding to pursue its mission of replacing city cars with sustainable transportation. Leading the round is Exor Seeds, the early stage investment arm of Exor, controll... |
| 04.06.2020 | Cowboy releases updated e-bike with new carbon belt | Electric-bike maker Cowboy has released a new iteration of its bike, the Cowboy 3. It’s a relatively small update that should make the experience better for newcomers. The first orders will be delivered at the end of July and the Cowboy 3 i... |
| 10.01.2020 | Cowboy, e-bike startup, raises €4.2 million and becomes Crowdcube’s largest ever cleantech raise | Brussels-based Cowboy, the design driven electric bike company, has hit €4.2 million in its crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, with five days still to go. It has extended its offer until 14 January; up until then the public can invest for ... |
| 10.01.2020 | Smart electric bike startup Cowboy breaks records, becomes Crowdcube’s most successful cleantech campaign | Headquartered in Brussels, Cowboy is a Belgian designer that is developing innovative electric bikes for urban riders. Founded in 2017, the company aims to improve urban mobility and take commuters to their destination in a more enjoyable, ... |
| 16.12.2019 | Belgian smart electric bike startup Cowboy revolutionises micro-mobility, bags €3.2M funding in record time | Are you planning to make a sustainable switch? Well, we’ve been witnessing a significant push toward electric automobiles despite the domination of fossil-fuel vehicles on roads. A considerable number of startups are coming up with an envir... |
| 13.12.2019 | Cowboy, electric bike startup, smashes €1.4 million crowdfunding in 12 mins and opens campaign to the public | Brussels-based startup Cowboy, the design-driven electric bike company, has today announced surpassing its €1.4 million crowdfunding campaign target in just 12 minutes, raising a total of €3.2 million. Cowboy’s 47,500 community of registere... |
| 05.12.2019 | Smart electric bike startup Cowboy announces first-ever crowdfunding campaign to lead micro-mobility revolution | Cowboy, the design and software driven micro-mobility company, today announces that it will launch on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube from 12th December, as it seeks to raise seven figures to fuel its ambitions on leading the micro-mobility... |
| 12.11.2019 | Electric bike startup Cowboy hits the streets in three new countries | Europe’s micromobility revolution is zipping along, with e-scooter services, ride-hailing firms and bike- and car-sharing schemes all growing speedily. But there’s another player worth paying attention to: direct-to-consumer e-bikes.
Today ... |
| 23.10.2019 | A bike lover’s take on the Cowboy e-bike | Electric-bike maker Cowboy recently let me spend a couple of weeks with one of their e-bikes. It’s a well-designed e-bike that makes biking effortless, even if you’re going uphill.
Cowboy is a Brussels-based startup. The company raised a $3... |
| 04.09.2019 | Cowboy recruits Sunrise co-founder Jeremy Le Van as VP of Product | Electric-bike maker Cowboy has recruited a well-known name when it comes to mobile app design. Jeremy Le Van co-founded Sunrise, a well-designed calendar app that was acquired by Microsoft back in 2015. Le Van will become VP of Product and ... |
| 23.10.2018 | Cowboy Raises €10M in Series A Funding | Cowboy, a Brussels, Belgium-based e-bicycle startup, raised €10m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from Index Ventures and Hardware Club.
The company intends to use the funds to scale operations and t... |
| 23.10.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, October 23 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, October 23.
Cloud9 is now the most valuable professional esports startup. Cloud9, eSports startup which fields teams in Rocket League, League of Legends, ... |
| 22.10.2018 | Belgium’s Cowboy raises $11.5 million to start selling its electric bike across Europe | Cowboy of Brussels has raised $11.5 million as the company prepares to begin selling its bikes outside its home territory.
The latest round was led by Tiger Global Management, but also included participation from Index Ventures and Hardware... |
| 22.10.2018 | Belgium’s Cowboy raises $11.5 million to start selling its electric bike across Europe | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Cowboy of Brussels has raised $11.5 million as the company prepares to begin selling its bikes outside its home territory.
The latest r... |
| - | Affordable and stylish European electric bike Cowboy is coming to America | Cowboy has been a popular electric bicycle brand in Europe for several years now, and it’s finally making its US debut.
We’ve been following the Belgian e-bike maker Cowboy since 2018, watching with interest as the company updated its sleek... |
| - | Popular e-bike maker reveals data showing electric bikes offer similar exercise benefits to pedal bikes | Belgium-based urban electric bicycle manufacturer Cowboy has shared interesting data gleaned from its ridership, providing insight on how much fitness benefit is offered by electric bikes.
Fitness is just one of the many draws of electric b... |
| - | Cowboy | “Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedalling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.” |
| - | Cowboy releases two new sleek-looking belt-drive electric bikes with 50% more torque | Belgium’s Cowboy has already run through several generations of its popular urban-oriented electric bicycles. Now the company has just unveiled the new Cowboy C4 e-bike, which is available in two different models.
The new C4 upgrades the cl... |
| - | This Week in European Tech: Major rounds for Fever, Zapp and Paack; Gorillas and Glovo buy smaller peers; good news for Intel, bad news for Sigfox | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 135 tech funding deals worth over €2.9 billion, and over 25 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
... |
| - | These are the latest big electric bike companies to pull in tens of millions in funding | It may be a new year, but many trends have stayed the course in the electric bicycle industry. Chief among them is a move we’re seeing where VCs and other investors have been tripping over each other to throw money at electric bike companie... |
| - | Cowboy unveils sleek new electric bicycle with new carbon belt drive | Cowboy has just launched an update to their last electric bicycle. The new Cowboy 3 e-bike retains Cowboy’s highly-praised sleek styling but adds a new carbon belt drive, among other upgrades.
The Belgian startup is back, this time with a n... |
| - | Unicorn spotting in Brussels: These are the biggest European scale-ups joining us for the Tech.eu Summit | The agenda for the first edition of the Tech.eu Summit is out, and let's call it like it is, the speaker line-up is pretty stellar.
As we gear up for a day chock-full of inspiration and education, here's an overview of European tech unicorn... |
| - | Cowboy | “Cowboy is the world's most connected electric bike for the city streets and beyond. Discover the e-bike that thinks for itself.” |
| - | How do you cultivate culture while scaling rapidly? Our Tech.eu Summit speakers have the answers | Scaling up at a breakneck pace is exhilarating but a startup's culture can get trampled in the rush, and that may come back to haunt when it comes to attracting and keeping the best talent.
How do you hire for culture fit and keep that aliv... |
| - | Belgium’s e-bike designer Cowboy saddles up with $80 million in new funding | Brussels-based electric bike designer Cowboy has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round. Through this funding, the drovers are aiming to wrangle core technologies, including manufacturing, in-house, as well as further develop, desig... |
