Nicolas El Baze
General Partner
Nicolas joined Partech International in 2000 and focuses on early stage opportunities in Software and Internet.
Prior to Partech, Nicolas spent 15 years as an entrepreneur and was a co-founder of several venture-funded companies: Softway International (acq. by ITway), Softway Systems (acq. by Microsoft), and ISDnet (acq. by Cable & Wireless). Nicolas also lead the Softway Venture Development activity which resulted in the incubation of several successful start-ups in the U.S. and Europe including: RightPoint (acq. by E.piphany), MultiMania (IPO - acq. by Lycos Europe), and LibertySurf (IPO - acq. by Tiscali). Nicolas also served on the boards of Meiosys (IBM), Akimbi Systems (VMware), Pantero (Progress Software), ClearApp (Oracle), and Q-Layer (Sun Microsystems).
Nicolas received an MBA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, and an International Management Program degree from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Universität zu Köln, Germany.
Nicolas enjoys traveling to new places, and attempts to fight off the effects of aging by playing tennis with his children, and by practicing and teaching Yong Do Won Taekwondo. He is also a co-founder of DBF, the leading French tech entrepreneur network in the US.
