Spill
Really good mental health support for employees
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Mental health
- Social
- SaaS
- Mobile
- Wellbeing
- Dalston, London, UK
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Company mission
To make therapy a universal employee benefit.
Our take
Some emotional pain — like heartbreak or taking a risk and failing — can help us to learn and grow, but much of it is unnecessary: prolonged low mood, imposter syndrome and crippling social anxiety for instance are entirely negative. Spill believes that the solution to unnecessary emotional pain is already here — it just hasn't been evenly distributed yet.
Counselling and therapy have existed for over a century, and have been shown time and time again to dramatically increase emotional stability in as little as one or two sessions, and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety as successfully as antidepressants. Spill's solution is to provide text-based chat therapy as an employee benefit, allowing their customer's staff to access BACP-registered (and equivalently qualified) counsellors on demand.
Spill aspires to become 'everything that the NHS, private health insurance and employee assistance programmes are not' - easy to access, well designed, and 100% unintimidating. It is currently working with over 600 businesses, including Rightmove and Monzo, and is delivering more than 30,000 counselling sessions per year.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Access to Spill therapists
- Lots of holiday: 30 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off
Company values
- We're a product-driven company
- We believe in being radically transparent
- We're trying to be more emotionally open with each other
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$2.6m
SEED
Dec 2018
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $3.6m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Calvin Benton
(Founder & CEO)Studied Economics at the University of Sheffield before founding Spill in 2017.
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Meaningful work (3)
Nice people (2)
Focus on employee wellbeing (2)
Growing fast (2)
Career progression (1)
Intelligent people (1)
Inspiring mission (1)
Everyone who works at Spill is INCREDIBLY kind, fun and driven! It is a pleasure to come to work everyday with this bunch. Everyone is included and brought along - no cliques, and lots of socialising, silliness and hard work.
Sales & Account Management
Nice people
May 2022
I joined Spill because I believe that mental health support SHOULD be easily accessible to as many people as possible. Once in, I was blown away by JUST HOW GOOD the product is and how far this company is going to go with it.
Sales & Account Management
Inspiring mission
May 2022
I joined Spill in January 2022, where our headcount was approx. 17 people. We're now (beginning of May 22) at close to 50 with more people joining us in the coming months. It is an amazing time to join where you can really make your mark on a fast growing, mission driven start up.
Sales & Account Management
Growing fast
May 2022
It's impossible to work a single day at Spill without being aware of how much of an impact the product is having - we're constantly finding examples of how people's lives are positively impacted by therapy accessed through Spill, which is so exciting!
Operations & Strategy
Meaningful work
May 2022
I've never worked with a group of people who are so welcoming, friendly and passionate - as somebody who joined at a time when the company has grown really rapidly, I was made to feel so welcome in the team. Positive feedback is given so regularly, which is amazing.
Operations & Strategy
Nice people
May 2022
There's a really clear progression and development framework at Spill, with really clear instructions on how to go from one level to the next. From my first day I had weekly 121s and monthly development checkins, so I always know where I am in terms of development.
Operations & Strategy
Career progression
May 2022
From day 1, I know that the work I've been doing has been genuinely contributing to ensuring more people have access to therapy, Spill's raison d'être. The work has been a good balance between really challenging and stretching me without being too much, so I have found it fun and rewarding to do.
Operations & Strategy
Meaningful work
Apr 2022
I joined Spill about a month ago and in this time we've hired loads of people, there's been a constant flow of new companies signing up to use Spill, and lots of interesting work around expanding the business! It's such an exciting time to be joining Spill, it feels like the sky is the limit.
Operations & Strategy
Growing fast
Apr 2022
Spill genuinely care about its employees mental health - that's why it was founded after all! From free therapy to plenty of holiday (30+ days as well as bank holidays) and even our own Spill Bank Holiday, where we all take the same day off to help us switch off properly. My manager has also been so supportive and there is a great culture on openness and feedback.
Operations & Strategy
Focus on employee wellbeing
Apr 2022
We're bringing accessible therapy and mental health tools to more and more people.
Software Engineering
Meaningful work
Jun 2021
We have lots of holiday: minimum 25 days holiday + bank holidays + Spill bank holidays + a day off on our Birthday + mental health days. We also have access to free therapy.
Software Engineering
Focus on employee wellbeing
Jun 2021
Everyone is incredibly smart and focused on making Spill's product amazing.
Software Engineering
Intelligent people
Jun 2021