Julie Kronstrøm Carton (Denmark) is a Co-founder, Chief Purpose Officer and Director of MATE.BIKE International. Julie has an academic background as an Associate Partner at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, just as she has worked with urban development, design thinking for strategic innovation and sustainable solutions. Julie is also a passionate everyday biking enthusiast. In 2016 she founded MATE.BIKE with her brother Christian Adel Michael. MATE.BIKE has quickly established itself as one of the most disruptive and fastest-growing companies in the ebike industry. With a new interpretation of personal mobility and biking and modern lifestyle, they have created a feature-packed, flexible, and foldable ebike. They ran two very successful crowdfunding campaigns. Raising more than USD 29M and selling more than 22.000 MATEs to 70+ countries.