Roger Franklin
Partner @ Hadean Ventures
Roger Franklin is a Series A investor at Hadean Ventures focused on Health Care and Medical. Roger has wide ranging experience in the business of life science spanning over a decade across the strategy consulting, investment banking and venture capital industries. Prior to his business career, Roger completed his academic training in biochemistry at Oxford University before specialising in oncology during his doctoral work at Cambridge’sLaboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).Most recently, Roger was senior pharmaceutical and biotechnology analyst at Liberum, an investment bank in London during which time his recommendations delivered top quartile performance. He also has extensive public market experience including IPOs and secondary fundraises. Prior to Liberum, Roger worked for a major European life science venture firm including responsibility for deal sourcing and due diligence as well as sitting on the boards of multiple portfolio companies.At Hadean, Roger is based in the Stockholm office and is particularly focused on investments in the therapeutics space.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Roger Franklin invests in
Stages Roger Franklin invests in
Countries Roger Franklin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 3 (50%)
- Medical 2 (33%)
- Biotechnology 2 (33%)
- Fitness 1 (17%)
- Wellness 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (50%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Country
- Norway 1 (17%)
- Sweden 1 (17%)
- Germany 1 (17%)
- United Kingdom 1 (17%)
Investments
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| Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se | $4.5M / Series B / Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| Actithera is a molecular radiotherapeutic company that develops radioligand therapies. It translates medicinal chemistry insights into new radioligand therapies (RLTs) and applies various molecular design strategies, including covalent targeting and an isotope-agnostic philosophy, to invent RLTs with significant differentiation and largertherapeutic windows. | $75.5M / Series A / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se | $27.6M / Series B / Jan 20, 2025 | ||
| Complement Therapeutics operates as a preclinical stage company. Complement Therapeutics develops a precision medicine diagnostic platform allowing it to stratify patients based on their complement-activation profile with the potential to enable both patient selection and serving as an efficacy biomarker in future clinical studies. | $78.7M / Series A / Apr 17, 2023 | ||
| Emergence Therapeutics is a European biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high-need cancers. Its lead program combines a highly specific antibody with optimized linker and payload technology to target Nectin-4 – an important target for a broad range of cancers which has been clinically validated as anADC target by enfortumab vedotin, now approved for the treatment of urothelial cancers by the US Food and Drug Administration. Emergence is also actively exploring opportunities to develop further first- or best-in-class ADCs driven by therapeutic need. | $98.1M / Series A / Dec 07, 2021 | ||
| Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se | $20.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 07, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Hadean Ventures
Hadean Ventures is a life science fund manager that invests in life science companies across europe with a particular focus on the nordic region. The funds are backed by leading private and institutional investors. Hadean Ventures has offices in oslo and stockholm and collaborates with world-class academic institutions and start-up hubs across theregion
Hadean Ventures Contacts
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Florian Eckhardt
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Roger Franklin
Partner
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Walter Stockinger
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