Managing Partner at Balderton Capital · Joined 2008
View Live Interactive Profile →Bernard Liautaud gives Balderton a level of founder-operator credibility that few European venture firms can match, having founded and run Business Objects - one of Europe's first genuinely global enterprise software companies - for 15 years before joining Balderton in 2008. That history is central to why the firm has stayed comfortable backing technically ambitious, category-defining software businesses rather than chasing consumer growth stories alone. He was named Managing Partner in 2016 and has anchored Balderton's enterprise and AI investing ever since, drawing directly on his own experience building and scaling a category-leading software company from Europe.