Teruhide Sato

Teruhide (Teru) Sato attended the United World College in Italy, and thereafter graduated from Keio University. In 1997, in partnership with Softbank, he co-founded Cybercash Japan (now known as VeriTrans), an online payment company. In 1999, he co-founded BEENOS (formerly netprice), and as CEO, took it public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2004. In December 2014, Teru resigned as CEO of BEENOS and is now based in Singapore investing in and advising startups across the globe. Teru was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008.

Notable Investments : Zilingo, Sendo, Ralali, Droom, NoBroker, CitrusPay, Bharatpe, Mobile Premier League, Healthians, Mfine, Servify, Trell, SureCash. Tokopedia, Midtrans, Iyzico (Prior to BEENEXT).