Why I built this
Joriva was built in a hospital room.
My father Joemar has Type 2 diabetes. When he was recovering from lung cancer surgery, I noticed his CGM readings were running significantly higher than his finger-prick results — surgical stress, IV fluids, tissue edema all affecting his glucose in ways that were hard to track and harder to explain to his care team. I was watching his numbers from home, collecting screenshots of his hourly plots, trying to find the signal in the noise. I wanted a tool that could hold all of that complexity in one place: his glucose alongside his medications, his treatment events, his symptoms — something I could look at from across the country and understand what was happening with him in real time. I couldn't find that tool, so I built it.
The name comes from two places. Jo is my father's name. Riva is the Italian word for shore — the solid ground you reach after crossing difficult water. Not the crossing itself. The destination. I built Joriva during the hardest part of the crossing, for both of us. That is what the name is about: where we were trying to get to, together.
— Joselle, founder & oldest daughter