GIMBHI‘s Q&A with Aisel Health's Co-Founder and CEO, Augusta Klingsten Peytz
Augusta Klingsten Peytz is the Co-founder and CEO of Aisel Health, a Clinical Operating System for psychiatry designed to reduce administrative burden, improve efficiency, and give clinicians more time for patients. Before Aisel, she founded Female Leadership Academy, Denmark’s largest community for future female leaders, and Global Empowerment Fund, an INSEAD-based NGO supporting women’s rights in war-impacted countries. A graduate of Copenhagen Business School and INSEAD, with experience at Boston Consulting Group and as a venture scout at mental health impact fund Masawa, Augusta is focused on closing the gap between the care patients need and the capacity the mental health system can provide.
Why did you start Aisel Health?
When I needed psychiatric help myself, it took 6 months to access care - and that was going private. That experience made the statistics personal. 1 in 5 people in Europe experience mental health problems, yet there's only 1 psychiatrist for every 12,500 people. 42% don't get timely help and see their condition deteriorate while waiting. I started Aisel Health because that's not a funding problem — it's a capacity problem, and I believed it was solvable.
Describe the product and what it does.
Aisel Health is a Clinical Operating System for psychiatry clinics - built to enable scale without sacrificing care quality. It removes the administrative and workflow burden that consumes clinical time, so psychiatrists and psychologists can focus on what matters. The result is more patients seen, without burning out the people delivering the care.
Why do psychiatry clinics use this?
Because demand is outpacing capacity- and clinicians are leaving because of it. Clinics use Aisel to care for more patients without asking their teams to do the impossible. We make it sustainable to scale: same quality of care, more people reached, and a working environment that doesn't cost clinicians their health in the process.
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