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Biometrics startup aims for touché in Japan market

Touché CEO wants to invent a unique buying experience with biometric technology.

Claudia Chong

Claudia Chong

Published Mon, Feb 6, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    SAHBA Saint-Claire gets people telling him every day that the startup he quit his Standard Chartered chief operating officer role to build will never pan out. But Mr Saint-Claire is determined to prove a point with Touché.

    A lavish dinner and empty pockets five years ago left him and his colleague with no choice but to have one of them take a taxi back to their office, where they had absent-mindedly left their wallets.

    It was an incident that bothered Mr Saint-Claire. He thought: Should there not be an easier way to pay?

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