Kirthika P.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Kirthika Parmeswaran a mother, daughter, sister, Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Vital Start Health, an innovative reproductive and maternal mental health company using Virtual Reality from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kirthika is a Wharton alum, with deep expertise across business and technology. She has won numerous awards and honors, including Outstanding Leadership in Healthcare award, DARPA award, ACE & MVP awards for outstanding contribution to the company’s success. 

She is an impactful thought leader and has held key positions in R&D at Ericsson Telcordia an Ericsson company working on product innovation, cross-functional management, sales, and strategy.

Her passion for women’s health stems from her own experience with postpartum depression and the clear unmet need for equitable, accessible, next-generation of care across pre-conception, birthing and postpartum. 

She feels strongly that in the age of driverless cars and ChatGPT, there is a clear need to disrupt the status quo and drive innovation into age-old challenges such as mental health and well-being. 

She was selected by the University of Pennsylvania to lead Vital Start and has grown the venture with a stellar team, advisors, and an equitable vision of impacting millions of families.

Listen to her podcast:
https://www.underthesisterhoodpodcast.com/1999410/12855249