Shunsaku Sagami, the 32-year-old Japanese Founder and CEO of M&A Research Institute, is nearing billionaire status by using a proprietary database and artificial intelligence (AI) to broker deals for small and medium-sized companies. M&A Research Institute has surged sevenfold since listing in Tokyo last June. As per Bloomberg, Sagami has a fortune of about US$950 million (S$1.27 billion).