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Digital Group Therapy Platform Circe Raises 100k Pounds to Address UK Care Backlogs

Category
Mental health · Funding · Global
Date
July 22, 2026
Source
OVUM

Summary

Circe has secured funding from the Innovate UK Founders Factory Biomedical Accelerator to scale its women-specific group therapy platform. The investment targets a growing crisis in the UK, where over a million women face lengthy wait times for mental health treatment.

The company sits inside the Mental Health and Digital Health/Telehealth lane of the women's health map. Track it against comparable rounds to see whether pricing in this lane is holding.

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