‘Be optimistic and innovate’ — The legacy of Cowboy founder and e-bike pioneer Karim Slaoui, who has passed away
Reading Time: < 1 minutesCowboy, 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 last year.
His co-founders Adrien Roose and Tanguy Goretti issued the following joint statement:
It’s understood that Karim died on Friday last week of a rare form of cancer, a synovial sarcoma, after being initially diagnosed in 2019. Karim spoke to Startup Vie about his cancer diagnosis last year.
A hardware specialist, Karim received his PhD as a Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics from Université Catholique de Louvain in 2014. He co-founded Cowboy with Roose and Goretti in 2017.
A spokesperson for Cowboy said that Karim’s wife Aurore shared that the things he ‘truly cared about’ were to ‘be optimistic and innovate.’
Slaoui co-founded one of Belgium’s most successful tech startups, which has innovated in the booming e-bike space and contributed to the global fight of reducing carbon emissions and pollution, especially in cities. It’s sold well over 55,000 e-bikes.
At the beginning of 2022 Cowboy raised $80 million, and it is understood the company raised around €15 million earlier this year.
Ref: techcrunch
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