SVP Corporate Security at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise; former Head of IT & Corporate Security at MIG Bank.
Board member, Moody's Technology Advisory Board (EU) and IBM European Security Board of Advisors.
Founding team of Kudelski Security; former CISO & VP EMEA Services.
Co-founded SecureIT and Above Security — first pure-play MSSPs in Switzerland and Canada. Exited; still operating as Hitachi Security.
Guido
CTO of XTN Cognitive Security
Fraud prevention and cybersecurity expert specializing in financial services.
Co-founder and CTO of XTN Cognitive Security since 2014.
Led the development of an enterprise-grade fraud prevention platform — SaaS and on premises — deployed by leading European banks.
Based in Italy and Switzerland.
PRE-SEED ROUND · AUGUST 2026
Identity for AI
Real freedom for AI begins the moment we stop treating it as a tool -- and start treating agents as humans
The problem
Every AI incident of the last year has the same root cause: the agent was given a human's identity and a permanent key, because our identity infrastructure has no way to say, “this agent, for this person, for this task, right now.”We are building that sentence — as a delegated credential that any system can verify, narrow, and revoke.
The problem
Verified once, then trusted forever
“Today, you verify the person and trust the session.” Going forward, services will have to verify the person, verify that they've delegated authority, verify the agent's identity and scope… and then verify that the action being taken is within that scope. This will revolutionise the identity market — from an onboarding tool into a trust chain.
4 REAL DELEGATION PLATFORM
Identity becomes a chain of trust, not an onboarding process
VERIFYING A PERSON · IS SOLVED
“Is this a real person?”
One check at the door. A whole industry answers it well.
Verifying what acts for them
The agent is invisible. Only you are on record.
WHO ACTED ?ON WHOSE AUTHORITY ?WITHIN WHAT LIMIT ?HOW DO YOU STOP IT ?What if it spawns a sub-agent?Siloed to one organisation
COMPETITOR'S ANSWER
Detect
Score the behaviour, flag what looks wrong. Answers “probably legitimate” — and only for members of the network that did the scoring.
THE IDENITY PLATFORM OF THE FUTURE
4 REAL
Answers “provably authorized, within this grants” — to any counterparty, with no prior relationship.
Signed by the humanCapped per actionRevoked in one click
Why now
Four forces, all landing in 2027
$47B
Agents act
Agentic AI by 2030, from $5.1B in 2024.Capgemini · Statista
€15M
Rules bite
EU AI Act fines. High-risk provisions live 2 Aug 2026.Reg. (EU) 2024/1689
450M+
Keys in pockets
Europeans getting a government-signed wallet key. US mDL already live.EIDAS 2.0 · MDL
10M a year
Humanoid robots arrive
Shipping in 2035, from ~15k in 2025. AI is about to share our world.Bank of America
THE FOURTH WAVE2000s — cards and terminals became Stripe. 2010s — OAuth became Auth0. 2020s — passwords became Yubico at ~1B IPO. In 2030s wallet credentials and agent identity become 4 Real.
The platform
One engine. Two growth curves.
Two shapes AI can take. One identity architecture underneath both — and a working prototype for each.
Where this goes
Each step pays for the next.
Real freedom for AI begins the moment we stop treating it as a tool — and start treating agents as humans.
Solution 01 · Agentic Money
Money that only moves on a signature
The problem
Agents are about to move money on borrowed keys. In finance that is radioactive.
What we do
Every transaction inside a human-signed, capped, instantly revocable grant. Legally non-repudiable by default.
Why it scales
No central store of banking credentials. Every grant carries its own cap and its own kill switch.
$370B
Additional annual retail-bank profit from AI by 2030 · BCG
LIVE PROTOTYPEA reference bank on a real paper-trading account — seven permissions, per-transaction caps, a sub-agent paying salaries, revocation mid-task.
The upsideWe price at Europe’s regulated interchange ceiling — 0.2% on debit, 0.3% on credit1 — At Juniper’s $1.5T of global agentic commerce transaction value in 2030, 0.3% is a $4.5B fee pool.
