ACT | The App Association’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we spotlight these trailblazing small businesses and their cutting-edge achievements.
For startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing landscape can make or break their ability to develop pioneering technologies. Ensuring licensing frameworks are fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) is essential to safeguard progress, preserve competition, and unlock opportunity. In September, we featured members whose achievements showcase both the promise of digital advancements and the pressing need for SEP licensing frameworks that support small tech innovation. Small businesses are ready to deliver the next wave of transformative solutions, but only if SEP licensing rules are FRAND-ly for companies of every size.
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Monday, September 1 – DoublePoint
Meet Doublepoint, the developer-facing platform that brings gesture control to wearables, AR/ VR headsets, IoT, and smartwatches. The Doublepoint Kit delivers IMU-driven, AI-powered gesture recognition, such as pinch-to-select wrist-based ray casting, and intelligent IoT control, allowing you to point, tap, and swipe using just subtle finger and wrist movements. Doublepoint enables developers to integrate fast, accurate, hands-free navigation into their products without requiring extra sensors or bulky hardware.
Monday, September 8 – Manulytica 
Manulytica is an industrial IoT company that turns legacy factory machines into innovative data-speaking equipment, with no ripping and replacing required. Their plug-and-play retrofit reads signals from the sensors and switches you already have, sends them over an ultra-reliable wireless mesh, and runs tiny on-device AI to spot issues in real time. Manulytica delivers clearer visibility, fewer surprise breakdowns, and more intelligent automation that keeps lines running safely and efficiently.
Monday, September 22 – Bufaga 
Bufaga is an Italian cleantech startup tackling air pollution with smart filtration for vehicles and public spaces. Bufaga’s rooftop-mounted units capture and remove harmful particulates, such as PM2.5 and PM10, as cars, buses, or stationary systems operate. Each device is IoT-enabled, feeding real-time data on air quality and pollution removal into a transparent dashboard. Bufaga delivers measurable, certified impact, helping cities, companies, and communities breath cleaner air while proving their sustainability results.
Monday, September 29 – Factoree
Factoree is a UK-based hardware and IoT development partner that takes devices from first sketch to field-ready. They design the electronics and PCBs, write embedded firmware, and build the cloud/app back end so data flows securely from sensor to dashboard. Factoree also guides design for manufacture, compliance testing and certification and the handoff to production, giving startups and SMEs a faster path from idea to reliable, real-world devices.
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