Sisu Aesthetic Clinic opens new Cork branch
Sisu Aesthetic Clinic has opened a new branch in Douglas in Cork, which is the company’s eighth clinic in just under two years.
The chain of doctor-led aesthetic medical clinics already seven other Sisu branches in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Belfast and Killarney, Co Kerry. For its newest venture in Douglas, Sisu has teamed up with MyCorkGP, which is a large GP practice in the city.
Sisu was founded in 2018 by Cork tech entrepreneur Pat Phelan, with brothers and doctors Brian and James Cotter. Phelan owned payment fraud detection company Trustev, which he sold to TransuUnion in 2015 for a $44m.
Sisu is also planning on expanding into the US. The company recently raised $5.5m from a number of investors, including Greycroft Partners, a venture capital firm that previously backed Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop.
According to reports, the funds will be used to enter the US cosmetic clinics market, and standardise ‘facial feature’ pricing for lip, chin, under-eye, cheeks and brow treatments. Initially, Sisu plans to launch an e-commerce platform, and 20 medical-retail clinics in the East Coast.
Sisu closed its clinics at the beginning of the pandemic in March, and all its doctors returned to work on the frontline. Co-founders Dr Brian and James Cotter took up roles in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin and the Mercy Hospital in Cork. “As co-founders of Sisu, we operate the clinic and our practice on the basis of everyone we and our doctors meet being patients; we will now practice that ethos to those who need our help in times of crisis,” they said.
