Shunsaku Sagami is the founder and CEO of M&A Research Institute Holdings, a company that since going public has skyrocketed its fortune to around $950 million.
A young Japanese businessman is on the verge of becoming a billionaire after creating an M&A company that uses its own database and artificial intelligence to negotiate deals.
Shunsaku Sagami, 32, is the founder and CEO of M&A Research Institute Holdingsa company that since its IPO, in June 2022, has skyrocketed its fortune to about 950 million dollars, according to data published this Tuesday by Bloomberg.
In a country like Japan, with the world’s oldest population, the company is leveraging artificial intelligence to match potential buyers with profitable businesses but facing closure because their owners are nearing retirement and they do not find successors. M&A Research Institute uses an extensive database it has built to search for buyers—focusing on companies with sales of up to 500 million yen ($3.6 million)—and is able to close deals in six months, setting itself apart from its peers. in the sector, who need a year to complete similar transactions.
According to estimates by the M&A Research Institute Holdings itself, some 620,000 profitable companies in Japan are expected to run the risk of closing for lack of someone to assume their leadership. At the same time, Tokyo estimates that by 2025, there will be 2.5 million small and medium-sized businesses whose owners are over 70, and more than half of them lack a plan to continue operating. Its closure would cause the loss of 5.5 million jobs, which would translate into losses close to 162,000 million dollars of GDP.
In this context, the Sagami business has managed to close successful operations in record time. Since its founding five years ago, the M&A Research Institute has grown to more than 160 employees and running some 500 operations. Between last October and March, it closed 62 operations, compared to 26 in the same period of 2022, and went from obtaining profits of 376 million yen (2.7 million dollars) in 2020, to 3.9 billion yen (28,000 million dollars). Dollars).
Sagami’s visionary leadership has taken the company to dizzying heights, reaffirming his place as one of Japan’s brightest business minds, according to the magazine. Forbes.
