IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Xip Diagnostics

Brief Description

Xip Diagnostics develops analytical solutions that advance human and animal health at the point of need through in-house product development and industry-leading collaborations.

The company's disposable blood analyzers wirelessly upload lab-quality clinical measurements in minutes, providing blood testing with no hassles, no delays, and no instrument. These devices will be deployed in Emergency Departments (EDs), clinics, and eventually the home.

Xip Diagnostics Founder and CEO Dr. Octavian Florescu spun out the company to commercialize research discoveries...

Totality Biosciences

Brief Description

Totality Biosciences is producing plant-based human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), a high-value bioactive found in human breast milk. The breast milk substitute promises to improve nutrition in infant formula. The company also intends to supply complex HMOs for research and development of therapeutics.

Inventors

Patrick Shih, Collin Robert E. Barnum

Company Founders

Patrick Shih

Timeline

2025. Company founded

Sift Biosciences

Brief Description

Sift Biosciences supercharges existing cancer therapies by leveraging artificial intelligence and high-throughput cellular screening to discover and design immunotherapy boosters that significantly extend cancer patient survival. The company was co-founded by Yue Clare Lou (BS ’18 Microbial Biology; PhD ’23 Microbiology) and Maddie Williams (PhD student '23-present, Molecular & Cell Biology) to commercize technology developed during their doctoral research at UC Berkeley.

Inventors

Yue "Clare" Lou, Madeline Dee Williams

Company Founders

Yue "Clare" Lou (...

Shrink Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

Shrink Technologies, Inc., based in Carlsbad, California, was acquired by Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. on May 29, 2009. Shrink Technologies specializes in developing innovative technologies, particularly focused on metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) applications. Their MEF technology, which integrates rapid prototyping methods with metal-fluorescence enhanced immunoassays, significantly enhances the sensitivity of diagnostic assays, making it possible to detect interactions that current methods miss. This technology has broad applications in drug discovery,...

Redwood Bioscience Inc.

Brief Description

Redwood Bioscience, Inc. develops a protein-chemical engineering technology to produce antibody-drug conjugates and other semi-synthetic biotherapeutics. The company offers SMARTag site-specific protein modification and cytotoxin-linker technologies that enable the generation of homogenous bioconjugates engineered to enhance potency, safety, and stability. Its SMARTag platform provides precise payload positioning and defined stoichiometry of payload-protein ratios. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Emeryville, California. Redwood Bioscience, Inc....

Photoswitch Biosciences Inc.

Brief Description

Photoswitch Biosciences was founded in 2010 to advance applications of designed-for-purpose, photo-activated ion channels. It became clear that new tools were needed to advance the research. The therapeutic mission has been separated so that Photoswitch Biosciences today can focus on providing advanced tools to the research community.

Our mission is to provide best-in-class instrumentation to the industrial and academic research communities. Founded by scientists familiar with need for reliable instrumentation and advanced software, the user experience is at the...

OptoCeutics

Brief Description

Advancing non-invasive light technologies to stimulate the brain and improve cognitive function.

Through clinical trials, Optoceutics tests and develop solutions to treat and diagnose neurodegenerative diseases using emerging gamma stimulation therapy and digital biomarkers.

40 Hz light for gamma stimulation has been shown to improve memory and cognitive performance in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. 40 Hz light stimulation reduced amyloid plaque associated with Alzheimer's disease in the brain of mice by about 50%. Optoceutics develops a masked 40 Hz...

Ogma Scientific

Brief Description

Ogma Scientific works with clients in the energy, mining and agriculture sectors and clients in the chemical industry to identify innovative treatment strategies for problems in industrial ecosystems. Our high-throughput screening services are uniquely tailored to identify successful treatments to stop undesirable microbial activity that impacts industrial processes. Examples include biosouring in the oil sector and acid mine drainage in the mining sector. Biosouring alone, caused by the inadvertent stimulation of microbial activity during oil or gas recovery, costs the...

MZR Neurotech

Brief Description

MZR Neurotech has developed an in-ear electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor packed with biosensors that detect brain activity. The discreet, comfortable brain-machine interface is being developed for monitoring and diagnosing sleep disorders.

Inventors

Ryan Kaveh, Arya Reais-Parsi, Rikky Muller, Saavan Patel

Company Founders

Ryan Kaveh (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy), Arya Reais-Parsi, Rikky Muller (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy), Saavan Patel (UC Berkeley, B.A., Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering...

Moment Bio

Brief Description

Developing curative therapies through versatile RNA targeting

Inventors

Patrick David Hsu

Timeline 2022. Company founded