Who We Are

We are people with type 1 diabetes. Parents of kids with type 1. And doctors who care for them. This disease is a big part of our lives.

What We Believe

We believe in a patient-first model of diabetes care. 

We believe that technology can make a big difference in the lives of people with type 1 diabetes. We believe that new approaches to software design can create better outcomes, fewer complications, tighter control and at the end of the day, lighten the load on everyone with T1D. 

Right now there are a lot of people who think, “This is as good as it gets.” We don't accept that. We are building technology that will help people with diabetes and their doctors make better treatment decisions.

What Drives Us

We are driven by our frustration with the isolated silos in which diabetes data is managed and displayed. We believe diabetes data should be acquired seamlessly and in real time, stored and managed in a cloud-based platform, made available for providers and patients to look at anytime, and presented in a standardized, intuitive, and comprehensible way regardless of which device the patient uses.

What We're Doing

We are here to bring the benefits of open source software to the closed, vertical and proprietary world of diabetes care. We are building an open software stack that will serve as the infrastructure for a new generation of smart diabetes management apps that help patients, parents, and doctors reduce the burden of type 1 diabetes. 

We are organizing and curating these open development efforts. Tidepool is building the platform and building the first applications that use it. To encourage other creative minds to build on it and adapt it, everything will be developed in the open and available at no cost to non-profit, academic and research institutions. 

We believe this will do more than anything else to drive change in the slow-moving world of diabetes care. We cannot do it alone. We need your help to make this happen. 

Take a deeper look at what we're doing (PDF).

Tidepool is a non-profit organization. Our 501c3 status is pending.

Contributions are gratefully accepted.

Founding Team

  • Howard Look 
    President and Chief Executive Officer 
    VP Software/UI: TiVo, founder's team 
    VP Software/UI: Pixar, Linden Lab, Amazon/Lab126 
    Father: 13 year old daughter with type 1 diabetes

  • Saleh Adi, MD 
    Lead Medical Advisor 
    Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF 
    Founder and Director: The Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes at UCSF 
    Recipient: Clinical Investigator Award, National Institutes of Health

  • Steve McCanne, PhD 
    Chief Technical Officer 
    Founder: Fast Forward Networks 
    CTO: Inktomi 
    Founder and CTO: Riverbed 
    Father: 13 year old daughter with type 1 diabetes

Medical Advisory Board

  • Aaron Neinstein, MD 
    Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Endocrinology, UCSF
    Expertise: Medical Informatics

  • Jenise Wong, PhD, MD 
    Assistant Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology, UCSF 
    Expertise: Clinical Trial Design

  • Yao Sun, MD, PhD 
    Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UCSF 
    PhD Comp. Sci., MIT 
    Expertise: Medical Informatics

Board of Directors

  • Howard Look  
  • Steve McCanne, PhD 
  • Saleh Adi, MD  
  • Bryan Roberts, PhD - Partner, Venrock

Partners

  • UI Design: Line 
    Sara Krugman and Ian Jørgensen
    linehq.com

  • Legal Services: WMT Law 
    Kurt Taylor and Pete Marshall
    wmtlaw.com