IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

ChemFinity Technologies

Brief Description

ChemFinity Technologies addresses environmental challenges in critical mineral recovery, water purification, and gas separations by creating molecularly selective materials that eliminate pollution and circularize natural resources.

Timeline 2022. Company founded. Inventors

Adam Andrew Uliana, Christopher Chang, Ever Onery Velasquez, Gokhan Barin, Jeffrey Long, Jeffrey Urban, Jonathan Bachman, Ngoc Thi-Nhu Bui, Sumin Lee, Zachary Pace Smith

Elenae Therapeutics

Brief Description

Applying antisense oligonucleotide technology to target coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Anders Naar, Sakari Kauppinen

DNA Nanobots, LLC

Brief Description

With a portfolio of existing IP, DNA Nanobots develops products for targeted therapeutics and functionalized gene delivery. We have a dual approach, building partnerships to provide development expertise in the functionalization of DNA nanotechnology with experience in Gene Delivery, Vaccine Development, Targeted Drug Delivery, Biosensing, Immunotherapy, and Drug Discovery.

Timeline 2021. Company founded. Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Enrique Lin Shiao, Rachael Lew

SirenOpt

Brief Description

SirenOpt provides manufacturing intelligence solutions that accelerate research and development and enable cost-effective manufacturing of high-performance micro- and nano-materials, including lithium-ion batteries, membranes, semiconductors, flexible electronics, packaging materials, and many others. The company's real-time manufacturing intelligence platform, designed for cost-effective manufacturing of thin films, utilizes cold atmospheric plasma and physics-informed machine learning to collect critical manufacturing data and improve manufacturing quality and output....

Intellia

Brief Description

Intellia is a leading genome editing company focused on the development of proprietary, potentially curative therapeutics utilizing a recently developed biological tool known as the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Intellia leverages leading scientific expertise, clinical development experience, and intellectual property position to unlock broad therapeutic applications of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing and develop a potential new drug class.

Timeline 2014. Company founded. Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, James Doudna Cate, Krzysztof...

Generation Lab

Brief Description

Generation Lab provides the first and only platform that measures the effectiveness of longevity interventions to identify what works. Co-founded by pre-eminent aging and longevity researcher Dr. Irina Conboy from UC Berkeley, Generation Lab combines an easy-to-use test with proprietary techniques to definitively measure molecular disbalance that indicates aging and risk of disease before symptoms arise. The company works with clinicians who can recommend personalized interventions to increase health, wellness, and longevity; and Generation Lab uniquely measures the...

Varada Agriculture

Brief Description

Varada Agriculture is transforming pest management to reduce crop loss with proprietary RNA interference (RNAi) technology. The company's biodegradable products are safer for workers and consumers, while also minimizing residue impact on the environment. The company's RNAi technology uses inhibitory RNA molecules uniquely designed to work on a target organism without impacting beneficial organisms in nature. This method follows the Integrated Pest Management Plan principles, which recommend highly targeted pest control.

Founder and CEO Jyoti Taneja was a postdoc...

Intropic Materials

Brief Description

Intropic Materials is developing truly compostable plastic and other self-degrading products that can be composted or perfectly recycled. The company combines the performance of proteins with a patented stabilization technology to build better materials that address the world's plastic waste problem.

Enzymes are nature’s chemists. They handle the reactions that let life happen, can be engineered for our purposes, and can even break down plastics! However they tend to struggle outside of their comfort zone, the cell. This limits our ability to use them in...

Kryptos Biotechnologies

Brief Description

Developer of molecular diagnostic software designed for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The company's platform develops a point-of-care, ultrafast photonic polymerase chain reaction that can create a fast photothermal heating plasmonic thin film by a light-emitting diode, enabling medical professionals to make the right clinical decision quickly at a reasonable cost.

Dr. Jun Ho Sun co-founded Kryptos Technologies to commercialize discoveries made as an Assistant Project Scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley in the lab of Professor of...

Mosaic Materials

Brief Description

Mosaic Materials is dedicated to reducing the cost and environmental impact of fossil fuels through the application of proprietary, highly efficient gas separation technologies. The company utilizes porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks to selectively remove impurities such as CO2 from gas mixtures in an array of applications from submarines to power plants.

The company was acquired by Baker Hughes (NAS: BKR) in 2022.

Timeline 2014. Company founded 2022. Mosaic Materials was acquired by Baker Hughes (NAS: BKR)...