FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Kabir Sethi
Age 27 · Regulated digital-asset infrastructure · France
A technical founder who helped move a consumer bitcoin-savings platform from a French application to MiCA-authorised infrastructure operating across Europe.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 27
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- France
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 82.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Kabir Sethi is the technical co-founder of Bitstack, a French application that automates recurring bitcoin purchases and purchase-round-up saving. His responsibility is unusually well documented for a private-company founder. A filed corporate appointment made him director-general for technical affairs with authority to represent and bind the company in that domain. Later filed statutes assign him technology strategy, infrastructure, technical teams, quality assurance, data protection, budgets and technical risk reviews.
That work crossed a consequential regulatory threshold in 2025. On 30 June, France's Autorité des marchés financiers authorised Bitstack under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets regime for custody, transfers, order execution and crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto exchange. By December the application was available in a dozen European countries. Bitstack also reported more than 300,000 active users and over €300 million saved in bitcoin; those are company figures, not regulator-audited performance measures.
FigureAsia selection
Why Kabir Sethi is on the list
FigureAsia selected Sethi because the record connects individual technical authority to completed regulated-finance work. The MiCA authorisation was not a funding promise or a proposed product: it permitted a defined set of live crypto-asset services across a harmonised European framework. His filed remit covers the systems, controls and data-protection work on which those services depend, while the expansion to multiple European markets demonstrates that the infrastructure was operating beyond a single domestic launch.
The selection is not an endorsement of bitcoin as a savings asset. Bitcoin prices can fall sharply, customers can lose part or all of their capital, and regulatory authorisation does not remove market, custody or operational risk. Bitstack's user and savings totals are self-reported, and its planned card entered beta only in 2026, so that card is excluded from the assessed 2025 record. Sethi is recognised for accountable technical execution under a demanding regulatory regime.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
MiCA crypto-asset service authorisation obtained
The AMF authorised Bitstack as crypto-asset service provider A2025-003 for custody and administration, transfers, order execution and exchange between crypto-assets and funds or other crypto-assets.
Operating footprint reached a dozen European countries
Bitstack said its localised application was live in twelve European markets and reported more than 300,000 active users and over €300 million saved in bitcoin. The reach was operational; the adoption figures remain company-reported.
Field context
The work in its field
MiCA replaced a patchwork of national crypto registrations with a common European framework for crypto-asset service providers. Authorised firms must define which services they perform and meet obligations covering governance, safeguarding, disclosure and operational resilience. For a consumer platform, technical architecture and regulatory responsibility are therefore inseparable.
Automated round-ups and recurring purchases lower the friction of acquiring bitcoin, but ease of use does not lower the asset's volatility. Platforms must make custody, execution and fees intelligible while protecting keys, personal data and payment connections. Editorial assessment should separate the quality of that infrastructure from the future price of the asset it enables users to buy.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
82.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
25 / 30
MiCA crypto-asset service authorisation obtained is treated as a delivered financial outcome. The score is confined to the completed result described in the record and excludes projections or paper valuation.
Individual agency and execution
21 / 25
The documented role—Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer—and the attributed actions in the profile establish accountable execution. Institution-wide results are not assigned to the person alone.
Verified reach and significance
16 / 20
MiCA replaced a patchwork of national crypto registrations with a common European framework for crypto-asset service providers. Authorised firms must define which services they perform and meet obligations covering governance, safeguarding, disclosure and operational resilience. For a consumer platform, technical architecture and regulatory responsibility are therefore inseparable.
Innovation and field influence
12 / 15
The record combines regulated digital-asset infrastructure with the completed work described in Operating footprint reached a dozen European countries. Credit reflects demonstrated practice, not a claim of novelty by itself.
Stewardship, access and Asian relevance
8 / 10
The Asian connection is explicit: An India-born technology founder, born in Gurgaon, Haryana, who built regulated bitcoin-savings infrastructure in France for users across Europe. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.