Meru Health YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Meru Health went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 batch as a Healthcare company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2018
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 55
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Kristian RantaFounder/CEO
Riku LindholmFounder/COO
Albert NazanderFounder/CTO

What Meru Health does

Meru Health is an online provider for greater mental health with remote clinicians (licensed therapists & psychiatrists), a smartphone-based treatment program, a biofeedback wearable and an anonymous peer-support group. Meru Health is committed to evidence-based care and has published groundbreaking clinical outcomes in several peer-reviewed medical journals with Harvard & UC Davis. Meru Health has offices in San Mateo CA, Denver CO and Helsinki, Finland.

Meru Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Meru Health, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Meru Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

An online provider for greater mental health

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We offer a smartphone-based mental health treatment program combining remote licensed therapists and psychiatrists with a biofeedback wearable and an anonymous peer-support group. Our platform delivers evidence-based care proven in published clinical trials alongside Harvard and UC Davis.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We split time between San Mateo, California, and Helsinki, Finland; after YC we plan to centralize primarily in San Mateo.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose these locations because the founders are based in both places, and it gives us access to US healthcare markets and clinical research collaborations while maintaining strong tech development in Finland.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Meru Health YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Meru Health's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Meru Health would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.