Overview
Evrim Taskiran is the CEO of Cyclecure, a company he co-founded in August 2019, serving first as co-founder and chief operating officer before taking up the role of founder and chief executive in September 2020. He is based in Brussels and gives his areas of expertise as management, leadership and entrepreneurship.
He has also been an entrepreneur in residence at INSEAD since September 2020, a member of tech2impact since October 2021, a mentor at uBee since December 2022 and at Oze.green since September 2023, and a business development advisor for the Benelux at Talent-Ray.
Before founding Cyclecure he spent a period as an entrepreneur at Antler in 2019. He worked at Dana Incorporated from April 2011, in advanced engineering, as team lead for modelling and simulations and as PMO manager, with a leave of absence for his MBA. He was a consultant and then advanced consultant at Altran between 2011 and 2017, a robotics engineer at Pal Robotics, a research assistant at TUBITAK, a teaching assistant at Sabanci University, and a summer research intern at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechatronics from Sabanci University.
Career history
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- The contract that changed everything One day we received a call from one of Belgium's largest DIY retail chains. They had a major problem. A kickscooter brand they'd been selling across their 150 Belgian stores had just gone bankrupt. 8000-9000 devices sold to customers across the country. Zero after-sales service remaining. Every repair request, every warranty claim became their problem now. They were calling small repair shops around Brussels trying to find someone who could handle it. At the time we were five or six people. One
- Five years ago I posted a question in a startup Facebook group. "Does anyone know where I can find a warehouse in Brussels?" Basic question. Slightly embarrassing to ask publicly. But I had nobody to call. Most Belgian founders I knew had already Belgian solutions to such problems - through someone their father knew, a school contact from twenty years ago, a family friend who happened to own property. Connections that I did not have at the time. So I asked strangers on the internet. Someone from Start it Accelerate | @KBC -
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- Brussels is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Yet, the startup ecosystem is almost entirely Belgian. When I launched my company here, every founder I met, every investor I pitched, every supplier I negotiated with — almost all of them were Belgian. Born here. Educated here. Their parents knew each other. I had none of that. No family friend to open the first door. No childhood contact who knew a warehouse owner. No inherited credibility in a room where everyone already knows everyone. I had to build every single
- End of life" is mostly a business decision, not a physical one. This pallet of hub motors is headed for recycling — pulled from a discontinued micromobility product, past warranty, no longer produced or serviced. But most of these motors still work. Magnets, windings, bearings — none of that expires just because a product line got killed off. At Cyclecure, we'd rather test, sort, and redeploy than shred. If anyone in micromobility or light-EV can use recovered hub motors, reach out before this batch goes to recycling.
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- Brussels just banned shared e-scooters few weeks ago. I usually never write anything on LinkedIn on such matters, but this one I couldn't let go, as I live, ride, breathe in this very city. I ride a shared scooter almost every day, and I run a company in this exact industry. Many have already spoken on LinkedIn, and let me share my few cents what the press releases won't: This wasn't a safety decision. It's a bias dressed as policy. One of the headline reasons? "Criminals use scooters". Twenty-five incidents. Let's actually follow
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