Katsuaki Sato
SpaceData Inc.
Founder & CEO
In 2007, while still a student at Waseda University, he founded an IT company and launched a big data analysis and online payment business that expanded to 8 countries around the world. 2015, in his 20s, he listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers. Raised a total of over 10 billion yen in funding and grew the company to over 20 billion yen in annual sales. Then, in 2017, he founded SpaceData Inc. for space development and developed AI technology to automatically generate a digital twin of the Earth from satellite data. He was selected as one of the "30 Leading Asian Entrepreneurs Under 30" and "The 10 Best Entrepreneurs to Save Japan" by Forbes, an American economic magazine. His books ("Money 2.0," "World 2.0," etc.) have become bestsellers with a total of over 300,000 copies sold and were the top selling business books in Japan in 2018.
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