# Koichi Saito

> Koichi Saito is a seed investor at Choco Up (Singapore) backing Travel and FinTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Choco Up](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/choco-up)
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/koichisaito/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/koichi.saito.961

Koichi Saito is a seed investor at Choco Up in Singapore focused on Travel and FinTech. Koichi Saito is based out of Singapore, Central Region, and is the Head of Corporate Strategy of Choco Up. Koichi previously worked at Photosynth as a Co-Founder. Koichi Saito attended the IE Business School. Koichi Saito has received the Venture Capital Fund Manager certificate.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 20% |
| Insurance | 1 | 20% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vietnam | 1 | 20% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 20% |
| Philippines | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Med247 | Med247 is an offline-to-online (O2O) healthcare startup. A platform where customers can book an appointment and consult online with Pro doctors.Med247 is a family of clinics for families. Med247 plans to optimise the technology so that it could become the standardised platform to connect with other healthcare services providers in the future. | $4.5M | Series A | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| PolicyStreet | PolicyStreet is an insurance technology (insurtech) group of companies providing digital insurance solutions to businesses and consumers in Southeast Asia and Australia. They offer insurance, bespoke employee benefits, financial advice, insurance aggregation, and the development of digital technologies to make insurance meaningful and simple forbusinesses and people. | $1.8M | Series A | Jun 01, 2020 |  |
| Med247 | Med247 is an offline-to-online (O2O) healthcare startup. A platform where customers can book an appointment and consult online with Pro doctors.Med247 is a family of clinics for families. Med247 plans to optimise the technology so that it could become the standardised platform to connect with other healthcare services providers in the future. |  | Seed | Aug 27, 2019 |  |
| PolicyStreet | PolicyStreet is an insurance technology (insurtech) group of companies providing digital insurance solutions to businesses and consumers in Southeast Asia and Australia. They offer insurance, bespoke employee benefits, financial advice, insurance aggregation, and the development of digital technologies to make insurance meaningful and simple forbusinesses and people. | $500K | Seed | Sep 06, 2017 |  |
| ZipMatch | ZipMatch is an online marketplace that offers real-estate services for buyers, brokers, and real estate developers. Most of the problems in the Philippine real estate industry today can be sourced in the long, tiring, and complicated process for buyers and brokers. Fortunately, there’s ZipMatch.com, the first property matchmaker for buyers,brokers and real estate developers that can help simplify the process. |  | Seed | Feb 28, 2014 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altara Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altara-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IdeaSpace Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ideaspace-foundation-inc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Spiral Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imj-fenox-pte-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mirxes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirxes-pte-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pavilion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavilion-capital-57b7) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Choco Up

VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Choco Up is a global technology and financial services platform, offering revenue-based financing and business growth solutions for digital merchants and startups.With data analytics and machine learning at its core, Choco Up employs vast integrations to automate fund deployment, providing fast-growing companies with zero-equity funding in aquick and seamless manner.We currently empower businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, providing smart-growth analytics and working capital solutions to fuel their growth.

5 contacts available at Choco Up.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Tsang | Co-Founder and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-tsang-52c4 |
| Bart Joanilho | Country Head of Australia; Head of Partnerships and Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-joanilho |
| Kevin Lai | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-lai |
| Kitti Chiraseivinupraphand | Chief Risk Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kitti-chiraseivinupraphand |
| Koichi Saito | Head of Corporate Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koichi-saito |

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## FAQ

### What does Koichi Saito invest in?

Koichi Saito invests primarily in Travel, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Vietnam. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Koichi Saito last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Koichi Saito closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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