Speaker's Profile

Kristian Ranta is the CEO & Founder of Meru Health. Meru Health is building a new standard of mental health care. Meru Health was accepted to the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator in 2018. Meru Health operates nationally and is currently collaborating with Cigna, Aetna, Humana, Stanford University, Stanford Health Care and other healthplans as well as large employers.

Kristian has been in healthcare for the past 15 years in the US, Europe and Asia. In 2005, he founded his first company Mendor which developed a novel glucose monitor for Type 1 diabetes.

In 2014 Mendor was awarded with the Deloitte Rising Stars 1st place in Finland and in 2015 Mendor’s glucose monitoring business was sold to a Korean public company i-Sens. While Kristian was building Mendor, he lost his oldest brother Peter to suicide because of his depression. This eventually led to the founding of Meru Health in 2016.