Clean Slate Clinic raises $4.3m from Giant Leap, Scale Investors
While alcohol dependence affects 1.4 million Australians, only a fraction of them receive treatment. Clean Slate Clinics aims to change that.
Out of every five people walking through the virtual door at Clean Slate Clinic, one is a healthcare worker looking for support with alcohol dependence that isn’t either rehab or an alcoholics anonymous meeting.
Clean Slate Clinic co-founder Pia Clinton-Tarestad thinks it’s obvious why.
You’re going to risk seeing your colleagues while sitting in a waiting room to see an addiction specialist,” Clinton-Tarestad told Capital Brief.
“Our mission was to tear down barriers to access. And that’s how we came up with this virtually fully remote model,” she said.
The clinician-led virtual alcohol detox and recovery platform has raised $4.3 million, comprising a $2.8 million convertible note and a $1.5 million debt facility, to fuel its expansion into the UK and the digital layer of its client-facing offerings, having recently acquired behavioural therapeutics app Curb Health.
