Michael Joseph
Co-CEO & Managing Partner @ Ion Pacific
Michael Joseph is a funding round investor at Ion Pacific focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Michael Joseph is the Co-Founder and current Co-CEO and Managing Director at Ion Pacific, an investment and merchant bank that works from its base in Hong Kong to serve a prominent and diverse set of clients, partners and investors who are seeking a truly innovative approach to global financial services. Since Ion Pacific’s founding in early 2015,Michael has worked with the team across the Hong Kong, London and San Francisco offices to build the firm very quickly into a leading player across its key businesses.Before founding Ion Pacific, Michael was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Reorient Group, the Hong Kong listed investment bank that was sold to Jack Ma (Ali Baba) and associated entities in 2015. While there Michael worked with Itamar Har-Even and the team on several ground-breaking international transactions across multiple industries. In his role on the investment and management committees, Michael led strategic acquisitions for the firm to both drive returns and enhance its position in the region.Prior to joining Reorient Group, Michael was part of the Och-Ziff team in Hong Kong where he focused on investing across Asia Pacific. While at Och-Ziff, Michael looked across asset classes as well as strategies taking part in some of the larger deals in the market during the time.Michael moved to Hong Kong as a Managing Director and a Responsible Officer overseeing Balyasny Asset Management’s expansion into Asia. While at Balyasny in Hong Kong, Michael took part in leading the group’s regional strategy and took a senior role in both investing as well as establishing the brand in the region. Before moving to Asia, Michael was a portfolio manager at Balyasny sitting in New York City overseeing the global industrials book which involved investments in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia.Prior to joining Balyasny, Michael was a founding member of the global industrial team at the hedge fund, George Weiss Associates. While at George Weiss, Michael also ran his own book within the firm Industrials portfolio that made investments across markets worldwide.Michael began his career at the Connecticut based hedge Fund, Pequot Capital. Pequot at the time, was a dominant player in the hedge fund space and Michael worked across various strategies.Michael received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Michael Joseph invests in
Stages Michael Joseph invests in
Countries Michael Joseph invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (40%)
- FinTech 3 (30%)
- Finance 2 (20%)
- Payments 2 (20%)
- Travel 1 (10%)
Stage
- Funding Round 3 (30%)
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
- Secondary Market 1 (10%)
Country
- Singapore 3 (30%)
- Israel 1 (10%)
- Ireland 1 (10%)
- United States 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
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Moove
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Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans. | $250M / Series C / Aug 05, 2026 | |
Dapple
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Dapple is the Enterprise OS Cloud, a new type of AI infrastructure that sits between the public cloud and private data centers. | $30M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | |
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Moove
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Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans. | Nov 01, 2022 | |
Chocolate Finance
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Chocolate Finance is a Sinagapore based fintech startup. | $19M / Series A / Aug 25, 2022 | |
Carro
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Carro is an online used car marketplace that offers a wide range of services for buying a car. | $360M / Series C / Jun 15, 2021 | |
Umrahme
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Umrahme is a leading online travel and pilgrimage platform specializing in customized Umrah packages, visa processing, hotel bookings, flights, transportation, and travel assistance. Serving travelers globally, the company combines technology with personalized services to simplify religious journeys, offering convenient, affordable, and seamlesspilgrimage experiences for individuals, families, and groups. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 10, 2020 | |
Nutmeg
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Nutmeg is changing the way people manage their money. Specializing in investments, ISAs and pensions, Nutmeg's online investment management service is intelligent, straightforward and fair. It is the first wealth manager with a 6 year performance track record in the UK. Founded in 2011, the company is based in London, UK. | Secondary Market / Jan 17, 2020 | |
Singlife
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Singapore Life provides digital life insurance services. Singapore Life offers high net worth universal life solutions for those that prefer Singapore and the Singapore regulatory environment as a destination for their wealth and protection needs. It also offers protection solutions made available both digitally and through financial advisers tothe retail segment, revolutionising how easy insurance can be. The Company incorporates multiple InsurTech solutions to improve the customer experience. Singapore Life represents the next generation of life insurance where customers are empowered through a simplified insurance purchase process. | $7.3M / May 27, 2019 | |
Catalia Health
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Catalia Health brings together artificial intelligence, psychology, and medicine to deliver lasting change. We create effective patient engagement and generate unique data of value to our customers. Our cloud-based platform delivers unique conversations to patients to help address their ongoing healthcare issues in an effective way. These messagesare delivered through mobile apps, a web interface, and our uniquely engaging (and patented) interactive robotic coach. | $4M / Seed / Nov 15, 2017 | |
Credorax
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Credorax provides online payment processing & acquiring bank services under one roof, to a diverse range of online merchants worldwide.Credorax provides superior customer experience backed by next generation technology.Its customers enjoy seamless integration of its payment services, excellent rates,high transaction approval rates and a widerange of value-added customer services. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 10, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About Ion Pacific
Ion Pacific invests creative capital in the technology sector to galvanize opportunities, connect markets and tackle the challenges of building a great business. As the technology sector has grown and matured, venture capital LPs, GPs, corporate venture capital funds and technology companies face new challenges that require creative capitalsolutions. Ion Pacific has a blindpool venture capital structured secondaries fund. Ion Pacific was founded in 2015 and has offices in Hong Kong, New York City and Europe
Ion Pacific Contacts
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Vice President
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Itamar Har-Even
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Michael Joseph
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What does Michael Joseph invest in?
Michael Joseph invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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