Nicolas El Baze
General Partner, Partech US
Nicolas joined Partech International LLC, San Francisco office 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 travelling and spending his free time with his wife and their three children. He attempts to fight off the effects of aging by playing tennis with his children, and by practicing and teaching Yong Do Won Tae Kwon Do. He is also involved with international education institutions and a co-founder of DBF, the Francophile Silicon Valley business network.
