Denmark's Aisel Health Secures €1.7 Million Pre-Seed Funding

Aisel Health, a Copenhagen-based healthtech startup founded in 2024 by Augusta Klingsten Peytz and Christian Houen, has raised €1.7 million in a pre-seed round led by Caesar Ventures.

Psychiatry is a unique field that has been overlooked for decades. Mental healthcare has been underfunded, stigmatised, and passed over by innovation, while demand for psychiatric care is growing faster than health systems can absorb it. Patients routinely wait weeks, months, or longer to see a clinician.

Augusta Klingsten Peytz, Co-Founder and CEO of Aisel Health, states that psychiatry doesn't need more generic technology bolted onto an already overburdened workflow. Instead, 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.

An innovation wave has swept through psychiatric clinics over the past two years, as AI notetaking tools have moved in, promising to ease the load on overworked clinicians. However, faster notes create a different problem: as documentation gets cheaper and quicker to produce, the information inside it gets harder to find. Patient records grow into an ever-longer trail scattered across systems and years - and the burden shifts from writing notes to searching them.

Aisel's latest research, "The Documentation Minute" (aisel.co/research), found that psychiatrists spend far longer on evidence-gathering than on writing the note itself - pulling together a patient's history from referrals, prior notes, and multiple systems before they can even begin to assess and treat.

The result shows up everywhere: doctors usually have most of what they need already sitting somewhere in the system - they just can't find it fast enough. So instead of spending hours retracing a case, they ask the patient to repeat their history again.

Christian Houen, Co-Founder and CPO of Aisel Health, states that AI scribes work - they write notes faster, and that's great for immediate burnout. However, that's not what's keeping waiting lists long. Make notes cheaper to produce, and you just make that information harder to find when a clinician needs it.

Aisel's platform reduces documentation burden and surfaces the clinical history and context a psychiatrist needs, exactly when they need it and how they needed. It turns interview recordings, existing documents and even the patient's own accounts into structured, contextual insights that are relevant to whatever moment the clinician is in. Before, during, after the consultation, Aisel offers direct insight into everything that was documented about the patient.

Aisel will use the funding to grow its clinical and engineering team and fund its UK market entry, converting an active commercial pipeline of private psychiatry providers, ahead of a planned seed round. The goal: give clinicians everything that matters about a patient, exactly when they need it - something no human memory, however well-trained, can do alone - and in doing so, help shorten the waiting lists that have defined psychiatric care for too long.

The funding round was led by Caesar Ventures, with participation from Nordic Web Ventures, LifeX and Angel Invest, while existing backers Rockstart and EIFO also reinvested.