There are no claims about myself in this list. Only things filed with a patent office, awarded by an independent jury, entered in a register or announced publicly. Anyone who wants to verify, should.
2026
Patent
US 12,596,770: Secure file sharing system and methodThe method that embeds encryption in the data itself and makes opening it conditional on remote authorisation. A patent office grants a monopoly only on what is new and non-obvious.
USPTO · granted
7 April 2026
2025
Patent
EP 4,427,154: granted by the European Patent OfficeRegistered with unitary effect across seventeen EU member states, including Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Expected to run to 2042.
EPO · granted
3 September 2025
2025
Capital
Mangusta Capital invests in CyberGrantThe fund invests to accelerate adoption in the United States.
Public announcement
June 2025
2024
Business
Stephen Akridge takes over as CEO of CyberGrantThe co-founder of Solana becomes chief executive. I stay with the product and the technology.
Public announcement
October 2024
2023
Application
US 2025/0071177: Secure remote connection enabling systemA system for enabling protected remote connections between a user workstation and a corporate machine. Filed February 2023.
USPTO
pending
2022
Applications
The same invention under examination in Australia and CanadaAU 2022381896 and CA 3,235,596, alongside US application 2025/0036789. A patent family extended across four continents.
IP Australia · CIPO
pending
2022
Business
CyberGrant Inc., Menlo Park, CaliforniaFounded with Massimiliano Maggi, with operations in Europe. RemoteGrant, FileGrant, AIGrant, SecretGrant and EmailGrant come out of it.
Corporate registry
California
2022
Venture
Tailor Ventures, managing partnerA venture capital firm focused on technology start-ups. Judging a technology and the people running it before committing money was the same exercise a board needs before it signs: the difference was that there I took the risk too.
Role cited by Linkiesta
March 2022 ยท role since ended
2021
Priority
IT 102021000027959: the Italian filing that sets the dateThe most important line in this list. In patents, what counts is who got there first, and this is the date from which priority is measured in every country the invention was later extended to.
UIBM · filed
3 November 2021
2021
Patent
US 11,200,349: confidential data displayed via virtual desktopA method for showing confidential information in a way that cannot be copied, stored or captured by the device displaying it. Filed in 2017.
USPTO · granted
14 December 2021
2020
Initiative
Convy School: against bullying in schoolsCo-founded to give Italian schools a tool for dealing with online aggression between young people. It is the same machinery I later find myself shutting down when it targets a public figure.
Active platform
Italian schools
2017
Business
Microsoft partnership and entry into the DACH marketsJoining Microsoft's Cloud Storage Partner Program. Distribution across more than thirty countries, with offices between Milan, Munich, London, Paris and San Francisco.
Joint announcement
Microsoft
2014
Application
US 2017/0324835: sharing multimedia content over a networkA method and system for sharing multimedia content between portable devices through time synchronisation. Filed 12 November 2014.
USPTO
filed 2014
2012-17
Awards
SC Awards, Gartner Cool Vendor and four further international awardsBest Encryption Solution and Best DLP Solution at the SC Awards in London in 2012. Then Gartner Cool Vendor, Le Fonti International Award, ISSA Good Practice Award, White Bull Awards.
Independent juries
London · Stamford
2011
Business
Boole Server and BooleBox, MilanThe platform was conceived in 2008; the company was founded with Massimiliano Maggi and trading in Italy from October 2011. A corporate data protection suite built on military-grade cryptography.
Companies register
Milan
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Institutions
Italian government, European Commission, European Defence AgencyThe technologies I designed have protected sensitive and classified information held by Italian and European public institutions. These are the hardest references to win, and the hardest to keep.
Linkiesta, January 2019
BooleBox premium clients
2006
Priority
ITMI2006A000528 → WO 2007/108034: the first time I wrote down my thesisThe Valpas Box filing, in my own name. It described one-shot and time-limited passwords, card payments that never disclose the number to the merchant, and above all an architecture in which the key is held on no server: anyone breaching the provider's infrastructure would find nothing but unreadable data. Not pursued into the national phase: I was fifteen years early. The document remains public and dated.
WIPO · UIBM
filed 22 March 2006
2005
Product
Xbinary: storing files online, before DropboxA system for keeping your files on the internet and retrieving them from any computer, launched in 2005. Dropbox would be founded two years later. I do not claim to have been first in the world: I claim that two national magazines described it to Italian readers in the same month, and those pages can still be read.
PC Professionale 167, p. 96
Win Magazine 82, p. 85
December 2005
1999-2009
Craft
Before anything else, someone who writes codeTen years as a developer: graphics engines and multimedia software for Mondadori, De Agostini, Edizioni Master, VNU, Jackson Libri and CHIP, sold on newsstands across Italy. I did not come to security from management or consulting. I came to it from code, which is why in a technical discussion I cannot be told whatever suits the room.
Italian technical publishing
published works
1995
The first
Windows Limits: my first security program, published in the pressA program for deciding what a user can and cannot do on a machine: today that is called endpoint hardening. Signed Valpas computer di Valerio Pastore, published by Gruppo Editoriale Jackson in PC Magazine in February 1996 and announced on the cover.
PC Floppy + PC Magazine
issue 100 · February 1996
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Origins
Cryptography for military bodies and public institutionsAdviser to military organisations and cryptography specialist for public bodies, then technical director at VALMAX Software, where I led the development of bespoke security solutions. The earliest work comes out of that: Valpas Box, filed in 2006 and listed above, then xbinary, The Guardian, CommHCat, VHarmor.
Confidential work
Patent numbers can be consulted on Google Patents, Espacenet and the patent offices' own sites. Corporate dates and announcements are available online. The work with individuals and with boards, by contrast, appears nowhere at all, and that is exactly as it should be.