First they worked in tandem, now they’re in an e-bike patent suit
A partnership gone sour between Cowboy and eBikeLabs highlights the tricky path ahead in the mobility space
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A partnership gone sour between Cowboy and eBikeLabs highlights the tricky path ahead in the mobility space
There have been others tracking this saga. Now, TechCrunch has received some new information about a meeting that took place between the two companies on February 2022. In this meeting, executives from both companies discuss eBikeLabs’ intellectual property strategy and eBikeLabs’ implementation of
eBikeLabs has been around since 2015. The company first started with an ambitious project: it wanted to build its own electric bike hardware controller that could be leveraged by multiple electric bike manufacturers. While the startup secured a public grant from the French environment and energy age
More recently, eBikeLabs decided to pivot and focus exclusively on the software part of the e-bike controller. The company would then partner with controller manufacturers to bring their firmware and software stack to existing hardware. The company thought this strategy would work particularly well
In 2021, eBikeLabs raised €1 million in an equity crowdfunding campaign. That same year, Cowboy and eBikeLabs signed a wide-reaching contract, and eBikeLabs’ co-founder and CEO Maël Bosson sent an email (viewed by TechCrunch) to the company’s shareholders who participated in the crowdfunding campaig
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