Maestria Partners

Pascal Cagni, as founder and principal, makes all final investment decisions. He draws on a personal network of senior operators from his Apple tenure, his role as Chairman of Business France, and his board positions at institutions including Criteo and Kingfisher. The office does not publish a formal investment committee structure, but Cagni has described his process as relationship-driven and concentrated.

Deal flow leverages Cagni's unique dual role in the public and private sectors: as Chairman of Business France, he interacts with high-growth companies entering or scaling within Europe, and as France's former Ambassador for International Investments, he maintains direct lines to government-backed innovation programs. The office also draws on the executive network from Cagni's board roles at Criteo and Kingfisher, and his founding role with the Cercle de l'Innovation.

Maestria operates strictly as a single family office deploying Pascal Cagni's personal capital. It does not raise external funds, does not charge management fees, and is not marketed as a venture capital fund. However, its direct investment activity in early-stage technology companies is executed with the same rigor and operator-involvement expected of a sector-specialist institutional venture firm.

The office uses both approaches. Cagni has made direct angel and growth-stage investments in European and American technology companies, while also acting as a limited partner in venture capital funds managed by third-party GPs. This blended strategy gives the office diversified exposure across stages and geographies without diluting the operator-time Cagni commits to select direct holdings.

Maestria has no public exclusion list, but Cagni's investment history suggests the office avoids deep biotechnology, heavy industrial manufacturing, and capital-intensive infrastructure projects where Cagni's consumer-hardware and enterprise-software operating experience offers no informational advantage. The office's known direct activity is concentrated in digital services and select real estate.

The wealth originated from Pascal Cagni's twelve-year tenure as Apple's General Manager and Vice President for Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa, during which he oversaw revenue growth from a negligible base to over $40 billion annually, making the EMEA region Apple's largest international operation. Equity compensation accumulated during this hypergrowth period forms the capital base of Maestria Partners.

Pascal Cagni has served as Chairman of Business France since 2017, a role renewed by ministerial decree, making him the senior non-civil-servant responsible for promoting France as a business destination. He concurrently leads Maestria Partners. The office operates as a private investment entity, but the Chairman role provides continuous exposure to the European growth-company pipeline, creating an adjacency that Cagni has publicly described as complementary to his private investment judgment.