Digital mental health platform provider Kooth PLC (AIM:KOO) saw the weight lifted off its shoulders as its shares rose over 30% on the news it was to deliver its platform en masse in California.
Kooth said it had signed a contract with California’s healthcare services department to roll out its service in the US state to six million 13-25 year olds, under local governor Gavin Newsom’s US$4.7bn investment in youth behavioural health.
"This contract has the opportunity to be a step change in both our work in the US and indeed more broadly as we continue to grow and scale our user base to help ever more people,” Kooth boss Tim Barker said.
Shares rose 34% on the news, to 230p.