Francesco Piccoli is a cybersecurity technologist who co-founded Almanax, an AI security platform for detecting and patching software and smart-contract vulnerabilities, which was subsequently acquired by depthfirst labs. Francesco Piccoli's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #44,497 (top 10%) among 490,537 tracked accounts.
Francesco Piccoli co-founded Almanax alongside Maxwell Watson, building tooling that served clients including Solana, Stellar, Aptos, Privy, Bridge, DFNS, and Algorand, while also ethically disclosing vulnerabilities to Ripple, Coinbase, and Fireblocks. Almanax raised a reported $1 million funding round announced in January 2025, with $1.5 million raised in total at that point. The company also received an Arbitrum grant to deliver AI security audits, threat models, and patches to twenty projects. Following the acquisition by depthfirst labs, announced in June 2026, Francesco Piccoli now works at depthfirst labs.
Francesco Piccoli previously served as Head of Product at AnChain. AI, a blockchain intelligence and compliance company, from 2020 to 2024, where the team built products for clients including the US SEC, IRS, and Salesforce. Francesco Piccoli also co-authored the PRIVATE framework in 2022, a privacy-preserving approach to Travel Rule compliance and due diligence for non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets. Francesco Piccoli's account has published 3,156 posts and has been mentioned by 17 accounts, totaling 31 mentions.
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