Sansan
👤 Chika Terada (Ex-Mitsui trader who chased a contact for months, then found a colleague already knew them — networks are invisible.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Every business card your firm collects becomes one shared contact database — humans verify each scan, not just OCR.
Will it work? · our read
Earned data moat. A dull office ritual became a company-wide contact graph, verified by humans not just OCR — real switching cost. The catch: physical cards are fading.
01How the money moves
Staff collect
business cards
business cards
→
AI + human ops
digitize to 99.9%
digitize to 99.9%
→
Firm-wide contact
cloud → subscription
cloud → subscription
02The numbers
¥41.5B
ARR (May 2025)
IR filing
99.9%
scan accuracy
sansan
+27.5%
FY25 sales YoY
IR
Scan centers in Japan, Singapore & Thailand key every card by hand — Sansan deliberately refused to trust pure OCR. Sansan IR
ARR passed ¥41.5B (about $280M) as of May 2025, up 27.5% YoY — first-party from Sansan's IR (TSE: 4443). The business now spans Sansan, Bill One & the free Eight app.
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· Founder & story — Disrupting Japan (Terada)· IPO & scale — The Edge Singapore· ★Revenue / ARR ¥41.5B — Sansan IR (Annual Report 2025)· 99.9% accuracy & product — sansan.com/en/features
Revenue is first-party: ARR ¥41.5B (about $280M) as of May 2025 from Sansan's IR filings (public co, TSE 4443) — FILED, not estimated. The 99.9% accuracy & human scan centers are Sansan's own claims. Founding story from Terada's interviews. CENTS & the 'dies' read are ours. We never score you.