We build what we wished had existed.
The idea did not start with a market analysis. Type 1 is part of our own families, and the daily work around it was familiar to us long before there was a company. syncsulin was founded in 2025, a German technology startup and a small team in Düsseldorf. What we are working towards is a system that is intuitive, connected and honest about what it can do, so that type 1 takes up less of the day than it does now.
Meet the team
Alessandro Dani, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO
Alessandro has watched from close up what type 1 asks of someone he loves. The counting, the checking, the nights that are never quite off, and how much of that work a person carries alone. That is where the idea for syncsulin came from, long before there was a company. He holds a PhD in Chemistry and spent over a decade in large companies and start-ups before he started building it.
Michael Munsch
Co-Founder and COO
Michael studied law and business, and has spent years advising technology companies and start-ups. He has seen from close up how often a good idea fails not on the idea itself but on everything around it. What convinced him here was simple: a day with type 1 takes more attention than it should, and that is worth working on. He looks after the commercial side of syncsulin and makes sure the ground it stands on holds.
CTO
Luigi Aiello
Luigi leads the technology at syncsulin. He builds the app and the backend, and he decides how they grow. He joined early, from Bergamo, and has never treated this as just code: when something in the product does not add up, he is usually the first to say so.
Machine Learning Engineer
Models, training data and the research behind the forecast.
Community
Melissa
Melissa lives with type 1, and the daily work around it is not theory for her. She is the reason Alessandro started building syncsulin in the first place. She is also the hardest critic we have, and she makes no compromises on what a day with type 1 really asks. When something we have built does not hold up against that day, she says so, and it goes back.
OUR MISSION · FOUNDED 2025
It all started with Melissa.
She has been living with type 1 for thirty years, and like many people with diabetes she wanted one place for all her numbers, and a way to understand what was behind them.
In the summer of 2024, Melissa was travelling alone in Copenhagen. The day started early with a flight, followed by a long walk through the city with a backpack, and along the way some Danish pastries with an unknown amount of carbohydrates. Then came a steep high, a sudden drop, and a severe low that made her fear for her life. She was alone in a hotel room, glucagon in hand. The only person she could turn to was her husband, Alessandro, who stayed on the phone with her, trying to keep her calm.
That day made one thing painfully clear: diabetes is about much more than insulin and sugar. Stress, sleep, activity, weather and hormones all play into glucose levels and insulin sensitivity. But how, and by how much? And how do you see any of that on a day that does not follow your usual routine, somewhere unfamiliar?
Every day is different. Yet people living with diabetes know that patterns exist. The hard part is seeing them.
Our mission is to use data to uncover these patterns: to understand what influences glucose levels, in the moment and over time, and to turn that understanding into something a person can actually use. We want to help people make better informed decisions with less mental effort, so that they can spend less of the day worrying about diabetes and more of it living their lives.
This is where we are going, and it is why we work with the University of Padua. The syncsulin app you can download today brings your day together in one place so that you can see your own patterns. The forecasting work is not part of it yet.
That was the lightbulb moment that gave birth to syncsulin. Michael and Alessandro came together with a shared vision: to build a company that helps people living with diabetes understand their own bodies better and make informed decisions based on their own data.
Today we are a small team in Düsseldorf working to bring that vision to life, with Luigi leading the technology, the University of Padua as our research partner, and the support of Digital Hub Bonn and NRW.BANK.
We are still a young start-up, and we cannot do this alone. We need the diabetes community, the people who understand these daily challenges better than anyone. Every rating, every piece of feedback and every bit of support helps us shape what comes next.
If you live with diabetes, or care about someone who does, we would love to have you on this journey with us.
We are hiring
Engineering and data roles. Tell us what you would build.
If you are interested in working with us, we would love to hear from you at info@syncsulin.com.