Alexandra Pailhes, CFA

Head of Investments @ Open CNP, Corporate venture capital fund of CNP Assurances

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Oct 2025
PayLead is bringing together daily banking and performance marketing for retailers with its proprietary technology fuelled by payment data. PayLead offers a unique opportunity for retail advertisers to address millions of consumers across Europe with unprecedented targeting capabilities. Since 2016 PayLead has changed the way consumers are experiencing loyalty by creating an effortless reward experience when they shop either online or in-store while turning payment data into value for marketers. PayLead operates over 25 loyalty programs for the largest retail banks, neo-banks, and consumer money apps in Europe. PayLead is headquartered in Paris and also holds offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
Seed Investor
Sep 2023
Did you know that employees with coach-like managers are eight times more likely to be highly engaged? (Source: Forrester) RunYourself is a pioneering prompt-driven, AI-assisted platform making it easy for managers to have effective coaching conversations. We blend expert coaching prompts on a spectrum of crucial topics with AI-powered support. This enables managers to have productive peer coaching conversations with other managers and more effective coaching, feedback, performance and career development conversations with their team members.
early stageEducation
Board Member
Oct 2022
YesWeHack is a leading Offensive Security and Exposure Management platform delivering integrated, API-based solutions to secure organisations’ growing attack surfaces. Its human-in-the-loop model combines Bug Bounty, Autonomous Pentesting, Continuous Pentesting and unified vulnerability management to deliver agile, exhaustive security testing at scale. Customers include Louis Vuitton, Ferrero, the European Commission, Tencent and L’Oréal Groupe. ISO 27001-certified, CREST-accredited, and EU-hosted with full GDPR compliance.
Board Member
Dec 2021
En France, s’occuper de son patrimoine, de ses investissements ou de ses impôts peut sembler complexe : manque de temps, de connaissances ou d’interlocuteurs de confiance. C’est là qu’intervient Climb : faire fructifier votre patrimoine. Simplement. Nous combinons l’expertise de nos conseillers et la technologie pour offrir la meilleure expérience utilisateur possible. Nous accompagnons nos clients sur : - Les investissements : investir intelligemment, suivre ses investissements et son patrimoine. - Les impôts : optimiser sa déclaration et réduire ses impôts grâce à nos experts et nos outils en ligne. Avec Climb, vous bénéficiez de : - Offre unique d’investissement : sélection indépendante, en architecture ouverte, au service de la performance. - Réactivité maximale : des réponses rapides de nos conseillers, facilitées par notre technologie. - Accompagnement fiscal complet : nos experts et nos outils vous aident à optimiser vos impôts. - Frais réduits et lisibles : moins chers que les banques traditionnelles, sans frais cachés. Nous réinventons la gestion de patrimoine en la rendant plus performante, plus réactive et plus transparente. Envoyez-nous un message si vous souhaitez construire le futur de la Gestion de Patrimoine !
Board Member
Apr 2021
October is a European FinTech whose mission is to finance businesses better. Our data and technology expertise make it easy and fast to say yes to businesses, thanks to a robust risk analysis. We have already financed thousands of SMEs for EUR 1 billion in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. As a lending platform, we are the first users of our technology. With October Connect, our tools also empower leading financial institutions, enabling them to better monitor their portfolio performance and enrich their risk analysis. Bpifrance is one of our early adopters. October is part of the Next40 Alumni and has among its shareholders Allianz, CNP Assurances, CIR Group, Decaux Frères Investissement, Eurazeo and Partech. Since June 1st 2022, Credit.fr has joined October. The aim is to combine their strengths and technologies to meet the financing needs of SMEs as closely as possible. We are hiring! For more information about October: http://www.october.eu/ For more information about October Connect: http://www.connect.october.eu/
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2025
Board Member
Oct 2025
PayLead is bringing together daily banking and performance marketing for retailers with its proprietary technology fuelled by payment data. PayLead offers a unique opportunity for retail advertisers to address millions of consumers across Europe with unprecedented targeting capabilities. Since 2016 PayLead has changed the way consumers are experiencing loyalty by creating an effortless reward experience when they shop either online or in-store while turning payment data into value for marketers. PayLead operates over 25 loyalty programs for the largest retail banks, neo-banks, and consumer money apps in Europe. PayLead is headquartered in Paris and also holds offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
2023
Seed Investor
Sep 2023
Did you know that employees with coach-like managers are eight times more likely to be highly engaged? (Source: Forrester) RunYourself is a pioneering prompt-driven, AI-assisted platform making it easy for managers to have effective coaching conversations. We blend expert coaching prompts on a spectrum of crucial topics with AI-powered support. This enables managers to have productive peer coaching conversations with other managers and more effective coaching, feedback, performance and career development conversations with their team members.
early stageEducation
2022
Board Observer
Oct 2022
TEHTRIS is the software editor of the TEHTRIS XDR Platform, the world leader in automatic, real-time, non-human neutralization of cyber attacks. With its "Security & Ethics by design" engineering, this solution provides cybersecurity specialists with a holistic view of their infrastructure, while guaranteeing the confidentiality of their data. Thanks to its technology, the company is positioned as a 🇪🇺 trusted third party. TEHTRIS XDR Platform monitors, analyzes, detects, & neutralizes threats worldwide for the benefit of major players & administrations. It is interoperable with existing security solutions through its APIs (In & Out) and integrated orchestrator. The information system security management of the TEHTRIS XDR Platform and its related products are certified ISO 27001. TEHTRIS is constantly on the lookout for cybercrime and listens to its customers, helping them to reduce risks and to face the unpredictable. TEHTRIS consultants master attacker techniques and methods (hackers, strategic intelligence, computer warfare, etc.) and create the necessary resources to counter advanced cyber threats. In 2020, TEHTRIS raised a record €20 million in Series A funding from industry investors and a record breaking second €44 million fundraising for companies developing eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) technologies, in 2022. With offices in Bordeaux, Paris, Spain, Germany, Vancouver and Tokyo, TEHTRIS is recruiting to accelerate its development and continue its technological research roadmap to build a true global digital trust thanks to its TEHTRIS XDR Platform technology and its 24/7 "Follow the Sun" business and technical support. For more information, visit www.tehtris.com
Board Observer
Oct 2022
InterCloud is a leading Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) provider that transforms global connectivity, reduces network complexity and accelerates growth and innovation for global business – securely, quickly and easily. Its end-to-end global connectivity platform eliminates the complexity in deploying the cloud, giving businesses full control over the security, sovereignty and performance of their critical data traffic with complete peace of mind. The company’s platform is underpinned by its team of cloud experts who guide customers to implement effective strategies to leverage the power of the cloud across their organisation – giving customers the ultimate peace of mind that their business will be fit for future.
Board Member
Oct 2022
YesWeHack is a leading Offensive Security and Exposure Management platform delivering integrated, API-based solutions to secure organisations’ growing attack surfaces. Its human-in-the-loop model combines Bug Bounty, Autonomous Pentesting, Continuous Pentesting and unified vulnerability management to deliver agile, exhaustive security testing at scale. Customers include Louis Vuitton, Ferrero, the European Commission, Tencent and L’Oréal Groupe. ISO 27001-certified, CREST-accredited, and EU-hosted with full GDPR compliance.
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