# Dexcom purchased TypeZero **URL:** \ **Category:** D-News\ **Created:** [August 22, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809 "2018-08-22T20:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bkh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@bkh](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bkh)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/1 "2018-08-22T20:28:40Z")
Dexcom has purchased TypeZero — the company that developed the Control-IQ hybrid closed loop algorithm that Tandem is trialing in the t:slim X2 with expected release in 2019. > **[Dexcom Acquires TypeZero Technologies | DexCom, Inc.](https://dexcom.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dexcom-acquires-typezero-technologies)** > > The Investor Relations website contains information about DexCom, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts. ---
**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/2 "2018-08-22T20:51:13Z")
Not sure if that’s a good thing. What do you think? ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/6/6817f038eec4532b196b83336e242d14730fac9c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/lisa/32/2701_2.png) [@Lisa](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Lisa)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/3 "2018-08-22T21:45:21Z")
What does that mean for Insulet? Aren’t they using Dexcom for their Horizon system? Does that mean that Dexcom users are better off going with the t:slim than with Omnipod in the long run? ---
**Author:** ![jim26](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jim26/32/9780_2.png) [@jim26](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jim26)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/4 "2018-08-22T23:16:33Z")
How long before dexcom buys tandem? ---
**Author:** ![MM2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/mm2/32/3032_2.png) [@MM2](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/MM2)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/5 "2018-08-23T00:09:49Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > Not sure if that’s a good thing. What do you think? I think you find great images that speak better than words!! ---
**Author:** ![bkh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@bkh](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bkh)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/6 "2018-08-23T05:09:12Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > Not sure if that’s a good thing. What do you think? It might be a good thing. It helps keep the TypeZero technology from being proprietary to a single pump company, which gives it a better chance to stand up to Medtronic’s market power. Dexcom and Tandem and TypeZero have been cooperating on the next t:slim hybrid closed loop. Now that Dexcom has gotten the iCGM rating from the FDA, maybe the TypeZero algorithms become technology that can be used (for a fee) in any pump that is approved to work with iCGM devices. Probably Tandem would rather keep it proprietary to them, but I don’t know what the current contracts say. > [@Lisa](#): > > What does that mean for Insulet? Who knows? Maybe we’ll see a Pod that runs with G6 CGM and a TypeZero closed-loop algorithm. Perhaps that’s not the current plan, but it’s one possible future. > [@jim26](#): > > How long before dexcom buys tandem? I think that’s unlikely. Dexcom has been asked this at quarterly conference calls, and they’ve said they aren’t interested in becoming a pump company. I think they would rather be the CGM that all the pump companies use for looping, not the CGM that one single pump company uses. ---
**Author:** ![Thomas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/thomas/32/1719_2.png) [@Thomas](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Thomas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-purchased-typezero/4809/7 "2018-08-24T00:22:36Z")
> [@bkh](#): > > It might be a good thing. It helps keep the TypeZero technology from being proprietary to a single pump company, which gives it a better chance to stand up to Medtronic’s market power. Exactly. That makes this great. It definitely helps to keep choice and competition going. > [@bkh](#): > > Maybe we’ll see a Pod that runs with G6 CGM and a TypeZero closed-loop algorithm. Perhaps that’s not the current plan I would be shocked if this was not exactly the plan.