Aisel Health just closed €1.7 million pre-seed round

Today, Aisel Health has just closed a €1.7 million pre-seed round led by Caesar Ventures, with participation from Nordic Web Ventures, LifeX Ventures, Angel Invest, and returning investors Rockstart and EIFO. The round was led by Carolin Gabor, who won the 2025 KfW Capital Award for best female investor.

Not bad for a company that didn't exist when Augusta finished the program.

What Aisel Health actually does

Here's the problem: patients in Denmark can wait over 100 weeks to see a psychiatrist. And when they finally get an appointment, the clinician spends most of their time digging through old notes, referrals, and records from multiple systems just to understand the patient's history, before they've even started the actual session.

AI scribe tools have tried to help by writing notes faster. But Augusta and her co-founder Christian Houen saw a different problem. Faster notes just mean more documentation piling up. The real bottleneck isn't writing, it's finding the right information at the right time.

So they built something different: a clinical operating system designed specifically for psychiatry. Aisel converts interview recordings, documents, and patient accounts into structured insights that clinicians can access before, during, and after a consultation. Instead of a psychiatrist manually piecing together a patient's history across five different systems, Aisel surfaces what they need, when they need it.

As Augusta puts it: "Psychiatry doesn't need more generic technology bolted onto an already overburdened workflow. It needs a product built around the realities of psychiatric care, where clinicians bring judgment, empathy and years of trained intuition, and the technology brings the speed, structure and ability to hold together every detail about every patient, in a way no human memory can."

The path from Startup School to here

When we caught up with Augusta in November 2024, a year after she'd finished the Startup School, she told us something that stuck: "When I started full-time, because I went through Even Founders, I had clarity on the first steps and on all the technical terms. So it was super helpful to have that starting point."

The timeline from there moved fast. She convinced her old friend and colleague Christian Houen to quit his job and join as co-founder. They went through an accelerator together in early 2024. Their CTO, with 20 years of tech experience, joined in April. They incorporated in May. By the fall, they'd launched in their first clinical setting, and the results were better than they expected.

Now the team is five people, with three advisors, research partnerships with Region H, the University of Southern Denmark, and MedTech Growth at DTU. They're already working with private clinics in Denmark and expanding into the UK.

What the investors said

"Few problems in healthcare are as large or as overlooked as psychiatry's, and few founders are as passionate about solving it as Augusta and Christian are" said Carolin Gabor, Managing Partner at Caesar Ventures.

Amol Sarva from LifeX Ventures added: "We look for European quality and diligence and American ambitions, and we're thrilled to back Aisel as they prove both to change one of the biggest challenges of their generation."

Augusta's advice for founders who haven't started yet

In our original interview with Augusta, she shared something we think about a lot at Even Founders:

"Beyond the company mission, I'm finding myself with a personal mission on debunking the myth of entrepreneurship being overly risky. At the end of the day, it's a job, the same as any job. The financial component is the risk, so as a first step focus on savings, find creative ways to get a bit of income, and limit your expenses. With the financial risk under control, then start-up is not a risk, but rather a plan."

And this: "If building a start-up is the dream, then the regret will most likely be more challenging. So if you are considering a start-up, start there, come with a good attitude of 'I'll make it work' and find a good community, then you are halfway there."

Augusta started where a lot of our founders start: with a full-time job, an idea she couldn't stop thinking about, and a need for structure and clarity to figure out the first steps. The Startup School gave her that foundation. Everything after was her.

Congratulations to Augusta, Christian, and the entire Aisel Health team. We can't wait to see what comes next.

Aisel Health is building a clinical operating system for psychiatry. Learn more at www.aisel.co.
Augusta Klingsten Peytz is an alumna of the Even Founders Startup School.

Read our original interview with Augusta: Cohort Catch-up: Augusta Klingsten Peytz

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