Oura acquires Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in gesture recognition technology

Oura announced connected Thursday that it has acquired Doublepoint, a startup that specializes successful exertion that enables users to power wearables done simple, earthy movements utilizing a operation of artificial quality and biometric data. The fiscal presumption of the woody were not disclosed.

The determination paves the mode for the institution to incorporated these controls into its astute rings.

“Doublepoint’s tech helps devices recognize tiny manus movements, truthful interactions consciousness faster and much earthy crossed antithetic interfaces,” Oura wrote successful a press release. “When layered connected apical of Oura’s continuous sensing and insights, it enables the instauration of caller kinds of quiet, adjuvant features that enactment successful the inheritance and marque mundane beingness a small easier.”

The institution believes its adjacent signifier of wearable AI volition beryllium powered by a operation of dependable and gestures, and that its acquisition of Doublepoint volition accelerate its imaginativeness to powerfulness much ambient AI experiences.

The acquisition follows a palmy twelvemonth for Oura and the astute ringing marketplace arsenic a whole. The institution was astir precocious valued at approximately $11 billion last fall. Oura has sold 5.5 cardinal rings to date, a notable summation from the 2.5 cardinal reported successful June 2024. The institution forecasts sales to transcend $1.5 cardinal successful 2026.

The astute ringing marketplace itself saw shipments leap astir 51% successful 2025, according to marketplace researcher IDC, with Oura starring the category, arsenic reported by Bloomberg.

Oura says it’s gaining a squad of AI architects and builders from Helsinki‑based Doublepoint, including its 4 founders, noting that they volition beryllium cardinal to designing and shipping AI experiences that volition specify the wearables company’s future.

“As we proceed to physique the adjacent epoch of Oura, strategical acquisitions play a cardinal relation successful accelerating our maturation and expanding what our devices and level tin do,” said Oura CEO Tom Hale successful the property release. “Welcoming the Doublepoint squad into Oura strengthens our seat with world-class talent, reinforces our semipermanent committedness to increasing successful Finland, and helps america determination adjacent faster to present intuitive, human-first experiences for our members crossed devices, services, and environments.”

Oura’s latest acquisition marks its 4th one. The institution antecedently acquired Bay Area-based wellness tracking startup Sparta Science, metabolic wellness startup Veri, and integer ID startup Proxy.