The Story of SYNCSENSE®

SYNCSENSE ApS is a Danish medtech company that develops VR supported digital therapy for the prevention and treatment of institution- and hospital-acquired complications due to prolonged physical inactivity and immobilization. Learn more about digital therapeutics HERE.

Our first product, SYNCSENSE®, is a VR supported exercise intervention for society's most weakened and inactive elderly and people with disabilities. SYNCSENSE® is not yet classified as medical device.

The idea of developing a simple and effective intervention against physical inactivity and social isolation started in 2018 from an R&D project at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital. An idea/project that later spun off by the two founders and former classmates Simon Bruntse Andersen and Steen Petersen from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark. The idea originally stems from Simon's experience of seeing his grandparents very inactive and understimulated in their last days. Steen, on the other hand, is originally trained as a physiotherapist and has, through his 10 years as a physiotherapist in the Netherlands, Portugal, and Denmark, faced the problem firsthand.

Today, Simon and Steen own 100% of SYNCSENSE ApS, including all IP rights, which encompasses an international patent and European trademark. Along the journey, SYNCSENSE ApS has received funding from private and public funds as well as from two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol Myers Squibb. Simon and Steen have excelled in national as well as international accelerator programs and have most recently won Denmark's first prize in artificial intelligence, the Danish AI Award , and have also been nominated for Entrepreneur Of The Year in the category Social Entrepreneurship - Future Impact in both 2021 and 2022.

SYNCSENSE ApS is today a multidisciplinary team of digital health specialists and collaborates with world-leading partners within health and digital technology. We combine participatory design with Nordic design aesthetics and agile software development to ensure a meaningful and value-creating product. This means that we actively involve patients, citizens, and healthcare professionals in the design process through living labs.

SYNCSENSE® is an award-winning digital training intervention that has won, among others, OUH’s Innovation Award for the best innovation implemented, the NHL's Impact Award for solving a real need, and was nominated and finalist at the Danish Design Award in the category Healthy Life.

Our mission is to develop VR supported digital therapeutics and offer it to the healthcare system for the prevention and treatment of institution- and hospital-acquired complications due to prolonged physical inactivity and immobilization. We aim to bring motivating exercise - meaningful and healing nature to people who are cut off due to illness. Through this, we will contribute to creating the best possible everyday life for the society's most weakened and inactive elderly and people with disabilities as well as for their families and healthcare staff.

Our vision is to promote physical activity and nature in the healthcare sector and bring it to the people who need it most. With our humble contribution, we want to help solve the individual as well as the global health problems attributable to physical inactivity.