Management Team

Here's the deal with me. I really, really, really wanted to be a neuroscientist, and I spent 17 years at it, but as much as I loved trying to figure out how brain cells process information, I wasn't much good at getting the experiments to work. I gave up in 2007 and took a job in IT at Yale. I lost that job in 2009 because of the financial crisis, but I got another one at Yale in fundraising. Now, Yale is a great place to work for a lot of people, but the bureaucracy of a 300-year-old academic institution isn't really the right place for someone born to be an entrepreneur. I started thinking about starting up a company, but what kind of company? It should probably have something to do with biology, because of my background, and it should probably use the web and smartphones, because those technologies have opened up so much possibility. Ok, so......? Well the answer was right in front of me at the dinner table every evening as my wife tested her blood glucose and programmed her insulin pump to give herself a bolus. There must be a way to combine the web and smartphones with all of the data stored in glucose meters and insulin pumps to help people manage diabetes. I went to Startup Weekend New Haven in 2011, teamed up with some folks interested in that idea, and we won first place. Since then we've been trying to prove that our small startup company has enough hustle, brains, and guts to run with the big dogs of the diabetes world.

Isamu is a veteran software professional who in the last several years has been focused on building very high traffic websites using Python and Django, and building Android and iOS mobile applications. Before Python he spent 10 years building a broad range of applications using Java related technologies.