Career
Ranta composed most of Norther's best-known songs, including "Frozen Angel", and is also credited for renaming the band, which was originally called Requiem. [2] He played guitar on all the band's full-length albums, the most recent being Circle Regenerated (2011), and contributed clean vocals to the Solution 7 EP, Till Death Unites Us , the No Way Back EP, and N .
He also formed an experimental side project named Gashouse Garden with Children of Bodom drummer Jaska Raatikainen.
Ranta acted, along with his bandmates, in a Finnish film called Vares 2. Norther and Ranta also composed a title track for this film called Frozen Angel, for which a music video, featuring images of the movie, was made. He was also interviewed in a TV documentary about Finnish heavy metal bands – Promised Land of Heavy Metal (2009). [3]
Entrepreneurial work
Ranta was a co-founder and CEO of a Finnish diabetes technology company called Mendor [4] until he left the company in November 2015. Later in 2015, he co-founded a company called Blooming to work on stress reduction at workplaces. Blooming was featured in TechCrunch in March 2016. [5] Ranta was also featured in the biggest newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat , in the summer of 2016. [6]
With the lead of Ranta as its CEO, Blooming changed its name in 2016 to Meru Health and focused on building a digital treatment solution for depression and anxiety. In 2018, Meru Health was accepted to a startup accelerator in Silicon Valley called Y Combinator [7] and has appeared on number of mainstream media publications such as TechCrunch, [8] INC, [9] and MobiHealthNews. [10]
In 2018, Ranta started his own featured blog on Forbes . [11]
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