Tidjane Deme is General Partner at Partech, co-leading Partech Africa Fund, Partech’s strategy exclusively dedicated to Africa’s digital markets.

 Prior to joining Partech, Tidjane worked for 15+ years in the tech industry in Africa, as an entrepreneur, a consultant and a senior business manager. He then spent 7 years at Google, leading activities in Africa, before launching the Google Francophone Africa office in Dakar, where he led ecosystem efforts across 15+ countries, and launched YouTube in 6 markets. Prior to Google, Tidjane was a tech entrepreneur who founded and led CommonSys, a consulting and integration company deploying e-gov solutions in West Africa and also cofounded an e-reputation platform in Europe. He began his career at Cap Gemini in France before joining Cosine Communications, a Silicon Valley startup building network virtualization technology for carriers.

Tidjane grew up in Senegal, then moved to France to attend Ecole Polytechnique (Msc Physics), did an exchange program at Imperial College London, and attended Ensta-Paritech (Telecom and IT Engineering).

In his free time, he enjoys working on projects enabling education.