Locked and loaded: How Lock8 plans to become the Airbnb for bikes, with help from Foxconn

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Within three months of unveiling their intelligent bicycle lock and bike-sharing platform, the team behind Lock8 won €40,000 at TechCrunch Europe Disrupt 2013, successfully closed a Kickstarter campaignlanded a seven-digit investment from notable international VCs and, most recently, announced a partnership with Foxconn – one of the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturers and a major Apple supplier.

Following the latest news, I caught up with Lock8′s CEO Franz Salzmann in Berlin to talk about the upcoming product launch, working with Foxconn and the startup’s plan to be the “Airbnb for bikes”.

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Locked and loaded: How Lock8 plans to become the Airbnb for bikes, with help from Foxconn

Because the continent of Europe is terribly fragmented, in more ways than one, and for a host of other reasons, there are few publications that have attempted to cover the European tech industry as a whole, let alone in depth.

To wit, it’s a daunting challenge and the obvious needs of the various ecosystems across the continent are currently met only by local (English-language or not) blogs and news sites, and larger publications that tend to scratch only the surface, focusing mainly on the happenings in major hubs such as London, Berlin, Paris, Helsinki, Stockholm and Tel Aviv.

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