ACT | The App Association exists to support our members’ growth by advocating for an environment that inspires and rewards innovation. We help our members navigate regulatory environments and provide them with resources to leverage their intellectual assets to raise capital, create jobs, and continue innovating. 2021 certainly came with its challenges but also brought about an unprecedented increase in the use of digital tools, apps, and connected devices. The innovations of the past year opened doors and created new possibilities for app makers and device manufacturers throughout the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK).
Our members develop technologies across all sectors of the industry and play a key role in the global app economy. Throughout the year we worked alongside our members to amplify their work and innovations through our ‘Member Spotlight’ series. Below is a roundup of stories of some of our many members that are creating technology that improves our lives.
🇧🇪 The Roomies (Belgium) – Finding a room that you like, in a good location, and with roommates that you enjoy spending time with can be tough. That’s where The Roomies comes in! In 2021, three young entrepreneurs found a creative, user-friendly way to display all Belgian cohousing posts in one spot.
🇧🇪 SyndoHealth (Belgium) – SyndoHealth helps patients with chronic diseases cope with their illnesses. Their solution is a medically certified app that enables patients to adapt their lifestyles to their specific pathology, focusing on heart diseases. Syndohealth also combines mobile technologies and wearables and other connected devices, which help capture a patient’s vital signs in the app.
🇩🇪 TelemetryDeck (Germany) – Looking for solid analytics, without compromising on privacy?TelemetryDeck’s analytics tool allows app makers to improve their products by providing immediate, accurate, and completely anonymised analytics data. Without being too intrusive or tracking users’ every action, TelemetryDeck helps developers to improve their apps to use and analyse their data to learn how users interact with the app.
🇮🇹 Bridge The Gaps (Italy) – Scilla Signa, an information technology (IT) professional and organiser of tech events and hackathons, created Bridge The Gaps, a digital skills training platform, at the beginning of 2021. The team created a training platform to close the digital skills gap that still exists in Europe. Together the team works to make technology available and accessible for everyone, promote diversity as a value, and ensure equal opportunities.
🇮🇹 🇪🇸 WodPod (Italy & Spain) –WodPod has one goal: to help users get active! Their fitness platform allows users to choose from workout programs designed by independent fitness trainers around the world. The team’s vision is to become a global fitness platform where fitness professionals and their potential customers can easily meet, interact, and connect.
🇪🇸 Intimind (Spain) – If you have trouble winding down or finding rest, Intimind is here to help! The Intimind app contains more than 200 guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, developed by psychologists and mindfulness experts. In fewer than 20 minutes a day, the programs allow anyone to improve their mental well-being wherever they are, whenever they want.
🇬🇧 Loopcycle (UK) –To create a link between end-users and manufacturers who sell their product via third parties or intermediaries, Loopcycle developed a tool that allows users to track product provenance with their smart device. Their solution helps to extend the life of existing products by making servicing and repair easier, boosting sustainability, and ensuring that customers get the maximum life from their products.
🇬🇧 Cubik Innovation (UK) – The team at Cubik Innovation helps companies make their electronic product concepts a reality. They assist their customers in bringing innovative products to market by providing full support from specification and design to prototype and software, and finally test and production.
🇬🇧 Cyclopic (UK) – Cyclopic founders Allan and Carol Rallings want to change the way we travel by focusing on something common to most forms of personal transportation: the wheel. Their centreless wheel design system incorporates drive, braking, cooling, lubrication, and suspension into the wheel assembly. This design allows manufacturers to attach the wheels to whatever battery platform they like, whether it’s a car, a bike, or even a drone.
🇬🇧 Nebula Labs (UK) – In 2017, Dylan McKee and Nic Flynn founded Nebula Labs, a company that specialises in developing mobile apps, web platforms, and tailored software solutions for startups, forward-thinking small enterprises, and government organisations. Nebula Labs combines the ‘start-up way of doing things’ with a unique agility in their business processes and solutions.
We hope you enjoy reading these member profiles as much as we loved writing them!