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Leva

Online clinic for people living with chronic pain

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1-20 employees
  • Healthcare
  • B2C
  • Personal health
  • Mental health
  • Wellbeing
Remote, UK

Company mission

To provide people living with pain with access to outstanding online care and the latest in evidence-based medicine. Their vision is to have a world without unnecessary pain.

60% female employees

Our take

The Medical cannabis market is growing in the UK since it was legalised in 2018. Unfortunately, in many cases the quality of the product hasn't been great. There's also a lot of work to do on helping people become more aware of the legalisation and benefits of medical cannabis when it is properly administered.

1 in 5 people in the UK suffer from chronic pain. Unfortunately, it can take the NHS up to 2 years to even see some of these patients, and that is on average for a cost of 60K a year.

That's why Leva is set up as an end to end chronic pain clinic. They specialise in helping people with a holistic chronic pain plan, and support patients throughout their journey. In doing so, they don't simply send people off with medical cannabis. Leva ensures the products are of the highest quality vs the market standard (illegal and regulated).

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Freddie

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Benefits

  • Pension with salary exchange which is tax efficient
  • Life Insurance - one we hope to never pay out on but peace of mind for you that it's there

Funding (1 round)

Oct 2022

$3.9m

SEED

Total funding: $3.9m

Leadership

Eric Bystrom

(Co-founder and CEO)

Recovering banker inspired by a close family member's experience living with chronic pain.

People progressing

A trained therapist, Lucy started life at Leva as a Clinic Operations Associate and showed such organisation, problem-fixing at scale and natural empathy for our patients that we moved her to Product.

With her background in clinical practice and over two years in Leva's Operations team, Sarah has progressed from Associate, to Operations Manager, to Head of Operations.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Leva

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Laura Wathen (CFO + currently leading all things culture/people)

  • We're still a small business and know our D&I efforts are no where near where we want ourselves to be but we're proud of our already diverse team. We pride ourselves in having racial and gender diversity, as well as people with different personalities and career experience join together.
  • We hold "Pulses" on a regular basis to get a sensor check of how our team is feeling and what we can do better
  • We're actively looking into our parental leave policies in order to support our Leva team with family plans

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