Why I started Luca MedTech

It didn’t start with a business idea.

It started with a laminated sheet.

When my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age three, our lives changed overnight. Not just for us — but for everyone around him. The kindergarten. The grandparents. Everyone who would look after him when we weren’t there.

The kindergarten received instructions on a laminated sheet. If blood sugar is low, do this. If it’s high, do this. And then a sensor on his arm sending data to an app — which none of the staff had access to.

The doctor used a different app. We as parents had a third.

None of them talked to each other.

What surprised me the most wasn’t the disease. It was that the systems we depend on — in 2025 — still work this way. That critical information about a child’s blood sugar doesn’t automatically exist where it’s needed. That clinicians manually copy numbers from one screen to another. That parents sit trying to piece together a picture from four different apps.

I’m not a doctor. I’m not a researcher. But I’m a product developer — and what I see is an infrastructure problem. Not a medical problem.

The data exists. The sensors work. The technology is there. What’s missing is someone connecting it — for the Norwegian health system, on Norwegian terms.

That’s what we’re building.