Francesco Mosterts

Mosterts’s public WayUp profile lists undergraduate economics study at New York University from September 2016 to May 2020 and identifies him with the class of 2020. His name also appears in NYU College of Arts and Science’s 2022 celebration program honoring the classes of 2020 and 2021; the ceremony date is distinct from his graduation year.⁠[3][4]

His public profile lists a sales and operations internship at Rizoma SRL in Ferno, Italy, from May to July 2017.⁠[3]

His public profile records a part-time private asset management internship at Siar Capital in New York from September to December 2018.⁠[3]

He lists a mergers and acquisitions internship at Altimo in Tel Aviv, Israel, from June to August 2019.⁠[3]

AlleyWatch dates Chainbound’s founding to 2023 and identifies Mosterts and Paul Burlage as co-founders. In a later interview Mosterts described it as an Ethereum-focused research and development company; its website describes a lab working on decentralized technologies.⁠[5][6][7]

AlleyWatch reported a $4.6 million Chainbound seed round led by cyber•Fund. In his LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry announcement, Mosterts said the funding would accelerate bolt, including its work on subsecond Ethereum transaction preconfirmations. This was Chainbound financing, separate from Umia’s later token auction.⁠[5][8]

Umia published its platform introduction, proposing one onchain system for fundraising, project organization and governance. Incubated by Chainbound, it reflected what Mosterts later described as a shift from infrastructure research toward capital allocation and organizational decisions.⁠[9][6][1]

Arcanum Ventures published the sixth episode of Utopia in Beta, hosted by Isabelle Castro with Mosterts as the guest. The episode description lists capital formation, decision markets, non-custodial treasuries, offchain legal enforcement and ventures involving AI agents among its topics.⁠[10]

In an original HackerNoon Q&A, Mosterts said trading drew his attention to execution, pricing and market coordination. He argued that financing and governance could become bottlenecks as AI accelerates product development, and advocated markets in which participants commit capital to price different decision outcomes. These were his views on organizational governance.⁠[6]

Umia held a seven-day auction for its UMIA token on Base, beginning with an early round on August 26, opening publicly on August 29 and ending on September 2. The company said the public round reached its allocation cap after seven minutes; the auction itself continued until September 2.⁠[11][1]

Umia’s announcement summarized the raise as $6 million; Mosterts told The Block it totaled $6.11 million at an $18 million fully diluted valuation. Ten funds and nearly 700 individual bidders participated. He said institutions supplied about 45% of the funds without receiving discounts, board seats, observer roles or advisory positions.⁠[1][12]

In a first-month review on his X account, Mosterts discussed product improvements and the project curation committee and reported $21 million in cumulative UMIA pool trading volume. The figure described trading activity rather than company revenue or a new fundraising round.⁠[13]

Umia’s official biography confirms that Mosterts previously worked at Point72. In his October 2026 interview, he acknowledged that giving token holders board-level decisions reduces founder control and that a liquid token can encourage short-term price-oriented decisions. He nevertheless argued that this was preferable to conventional token voting or venture boards with conflicting interests.⁠[1][12]

Umia: Official website: https://umia.finance/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

Chainbound: Official website: https://www.chainbound.io/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

Point72: Official website: https://point72.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[14]

New York University: Official website: https://www.nyu.edu/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]

Francesco Mosterts: Official account: https://x.com/fra_mosterts (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

Francesco Mosterts: Official account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-mosterts-014209166/ (opens in a new window).⁠[15]