Virta Health

United States - San Francisco, California

• 19/04/2021
• Series E
• $133,000,000

Virta is the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery. Our innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science and digital tools combined with our clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal. Our mission—to reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025.

Join our team of world-class scientists, clinicians, product specialists, designers, and engineers. Check https://www.virtahealth.com/careers to see our full list of open roles.

Curious about how Virta is developing the next generation of healthcare technology? Check out our technical blog at https://www.virtahealth.com/health-tech

Our Engineering team values work/life balance, promoting from within, and actively practicing inclusion. Learn what else they value at https://www.keyvalues.com/virta

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Sami InkinenFounder

United States - Denver, Colorado

Founder & CEO of Virta Health. Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Our innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science and digital tools combined with our clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal.
(Peer-reviewed, published clinical trial results: https://www.virtahealth.com/research)

Completed recently: Rowed across the Pacific Ocean, 2750 miles unsupported from California to Hawaii with my amazing wife Meredith. Broke a world record: www.FatChanceRow.org

- LIKES: Creating positive disruptive change in business and personal performance through new technologies and hard work.
- DOES: Advise, mentor, invest, start and build high growth companies doing the above. Especially companies focused on healthy living i.e. anything advancing human health and performance.
- PAST: Trulia(co-founded), Microsoft, McKinsey&Company, Nokia, Matchem(co-founded), software development until 2000
- EDUCATION: Stanford MBA, Helsinki University of Technology Masters in Engineering from Dept of Technical Physics. Most recently studying Computer Science (on hold right now).

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiinkinen/