A psychedelics startup has a big vision. Investors aren’t buying it.

Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance
7 min readJan 20, 2023

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Awakn Life Science’s ketamine therapy for alcohol use disorder is promising. Will it be profitable?

Awakn’s London clinic

British psychiatrist Ben Sessa believes fervently in psychedelic medicines. They are “likely to change the whole paradigm of psychiatry,” says Sessa, who a co-founder and head of…

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Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance

Reporting on psychedelics, tobacco, philanthropy, animal welfare, etc. Ex-Fortune. Words in The Guardian, NYTimes, WPost, Vox. Baseball fan. Runner.