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Morten Halborg

General Partner @ Climentum Capital - Investing in Champions of Decarbonization

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner & Co-founder

    2020

    Climentum Capital is an Article 9 climate tech fund leading investments in early-stage European B2B hard tech companies. These companies offer solutions to crucial yet often overlooked challenges, effectively transforming the very fabric of industries. Our team consists of engineers and technology enthusiasts who have crafted a fund model featuring a dual carry structure, ensuring that financial and impact objectives are fully aligned.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Aegir Insights is a tech provider of advanced software as a service (SaaS) offering both data analytics and geospatial solutions and insights to help decision makers in the offshore wind industry. Aegir's tech integration delivers profound industry expertise and crucial workflow insights throughout the entire offshore wind investment lifecycle. Aegir streamlines the process of identifying markets, sites and their development, and is estimated to save up to 30% on the timeline from market selection to commercial operations.

2019 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2024

    DoLand - puts your money where your heart is! DoLand is an investment platform with 3 missions: 1) To democratize the capital markets 2) To help put your money where your heart is 3)To track and share the financial and societal progress of your investment. As member of the DoLand board I am actively engaging and bring hands on input from both the capital markets world and from the impact investing world. Combining the two worlds in one win-win world is what DoLand is all about.

2018 - 2024

  • Member of the Jury, EY Future Impact Entrepreneur of The Year Award

    2018 - 2024

    • EY and ’Den Sociale Kapitalfond’ has launched the award ’EY Social Entrepreneur of The Year’ to celebrate start-ups, creating sustainable and profitable business models with ’social impact’. The goal is to increase investment in smaller businesses and to inspire to greater impact focus. • Member of the Jury together with a number of other leading experts in this field, fx. Soulaima Gourani, Young Global Leader and active in Dignity, Morten Albæk, founding partner and director of the board in Voluntas, Kai Hockerts, Professor in Social Entrepreneurship, CBS.

2004 - 2019

  • CEO - Skandia Asset Management

    2014 - 2019

    • Head of an asset management company under the supervision of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority • Reporting directly to professional board of directors and working proactively with the Swedish organization and management • In charge of managing assets of more than DKK 35 billion for Skandia Denmark’s pension customers and for professional, institutional and retail clients outside the Skandia Group • Executive board experience from investment organization with some 20 employees • In charge of strategy, P&L, governance structure, compliance, etc. • Establishing investment company from scratch (2008) • CIO and member of Skandia Denmark’s senior Danish management team (some 260 employees), sharing responsibility with five co-executives for strategy, operations and the performance of the Danish entities • Participating actively on investment, business and risk management committees • Working actively with responsible, sustainable and impact investments • Pioneered mindset and approach to working with ’social investments’, setting the agenda for this unexploited area in Denmark

  • Head of Asset Management & Investment Operations (COO)

    2010 - 2014

    • Reported directly to the CEO and worked proactively with the board of directors etc. • Member of the day-to-day management team and deputy CEO • Head of the Front, Middle & Back Office of the investment organization (some 10 employees) • Managed investment operations with focus on and involvement in process optimization and organizational development • Contributed proactively to establishing the current governance structure and to developing investment solutions in the context of the management of market rate products and guaranteed pension savings products • Participated actively on Investment and Risk Management Committees • Helped develop new investment solutions in cooperation with colleagues from the Skandia Group in Sweden, Cape Town, London, Berlin etc. • Drove full automation of operational set-up through, i.e., integration of proprietary pre-trade control system etc.

  • Head of Investments (CIO)

    2007 - 2009

    • Reported to the CEO • Head of traditional/guaranteed life portfolio investments (3 employees) • International experience from South African ownership (Old Mutual Group with some 50,000 employees globally and a presence in some 20 countries, listed on the London Stock Exchange) • Managed traditional/guaranteed life portfolio investments, including active use of financial instruments for portfolio risk management • Helped develop and implement derivatives-based equities hedging for own funds optimization etc. • Stepwise in-sourcing of investment management and operational setup • Through the establishment of an asset management company in 2008, lifted the investment area from an internal investment department within Skandia

  • Senior Investment Analyst

    2004 - 2007

    • Reported to the CIO • Implemented strategic hedging analysis and general risk management, including risk hedging through trading in financial instruments • Securities research of active asset managers • In charge of implementing Asset Liability Management (ALM) model for traditional guaranteed products in Skandia Liv

2001 - 2004

  • Investment Analyst

    2001 - 2004

    • Reported to the CFO • Risk management analysis • Performance reporting and calculations • Prepared strategic hedging analysis, including Asset Liability Management (ALM)

  • Finance Dept. & Risk Management

    2001 - 2003

  • Student, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    1999 - 2000