Meru Health

The mental health company will use Curebase's decentralized clinical trial platform to study its treatment program's efficacy.

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Meru said the funds will be used to grow nationwide, add employer and payer partnerships, and expand its coaching service.

The company also published new research on its biofeedback tool. 

The tool was designed to help users see their heart rate variability.

The startup plans to put the money towards additional clinical validation and rolling out the system to large health systems and employers. 

Meru Health's app-based program will be deployed and evaluated among roughly 70 older adults with depression symptoms.

At Health 2.0, experts and technologists explored tools for fighting physician suicide, opioid addiction, and eating disorders.

Depression among college students has become a hot topic on university campuses as the number of students seeking treatment for this condition continues to grow.