IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Chirp Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

Chirp Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures a line of extremely low power, ultrasonic 3D-sensing solutions for consumer electronics, smart homes, industrial automation, and much more. The company's ultrasonic 3D-sensing systems offer millimeter-accurate range information, based on machine learning and neural network algorithms and outperform infrared-based alternatives by every metric in real-world applications like consumer electronics, smart homes and industrial automation, enabling clients to avail the always-on sensing for...

Caribou Biosciences Inc.

Brief Description

Caribou Biosciences is a clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing transformative therapies for patients with devastating diseases. The company’s genome-editing platform, including its Cas12a chRDNA technology, enables superior precision to develop cell therapies that are armored to potentially improve activity against diseases. Caribou is advancing a pipeline of off-the-shelf cell therapies from its CAR-T cell platform as readily available treatments for patients with hematologic malignancies and autoimmune diseases.

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PhenomeX

Brief Description

PhenomeX empowered Digital Cell Biology by combining bioscience, technology and information in unique new ways to accelerate science. The platforms, assays and services, biologists can move faster and more efficiently to meet the demands for cell based processes in biotherapeutic discovery and development, cellular therapy manufacturing, synthetic biology, ag-bio, and other fields.

Formerly known as Berkeley Lights, Inc.

Inventors

Kevin Champman, Pei Yu Chiou, Maurice Garcia, Jian Gong, Hsan yin Hsu, Kuo Wei Huang, Arash Jamshidi, Igor Khandros...

Amyris, Inc.

Brief Description

Amyris, Inc. is an industrial biotechnology company, which engages in the provision of bioscience solutions. It focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sale of fuels and farnesene-derived products. Its products include cosmetics, flavors and fragrances, performance materials, diesel, jet fuel, and lubricants. The company was founded by Jack D. Newman, Kinkead Keith Reiling, and Neil Renninger on July 17, 2003 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Inventors

Jay Keasling, Artem Khlebnikov, Seon Won Kim, James Kirby, Vincent Martin, Jack Newman, Eric...

4D Molecular Therapeutics LLC

Brief Description

4D Molecular Therapeutics is a global leader in gene therapy product research and development using scientific innovation to unlock the full potential of gene therapy for patients with genetic diseases. Their robust discovery platform, termed Directed Vector Evolution, empowers creation of customized gene delivery vehicles (novel AAV vectors) to deliver normal genes to tissues or organs with defective genes. as occurs in genetic diseases. This 4DMT discovery technology was originally developed over 15 years by co-Founder David Schaffer at UC Berkeley.

Inventors David...

20n Labs, Inc.

Brief Description

The next decade is going to see a biotech revolution fueled by three technologies: ability to read DNA (sequencing), ability to write DNA (synthesis), and computational systems that predict what DNA to read and write. With sequencing and synthesis being mainstream now, 20n provides the computational systems that predict DNA design for novel industrial biotech and health applications. At 20n, we are taking a fresh look at turning biological data into information. We approach it as a big data learning problem, and bring to bear techniques from machine learning, distributed...

Ambi Robotics

Brief Description

Ambi Robotics offers advanced robot grasping software for logistics and warehouse order fulfillment, allowing robots to grasp a wide variety of objects.

Ambi Robotics grew from the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) project at UC Berkeley and is led by Dr. Jeff Mahler and Professor Ken Goldberg, experts in robot grasping with a combined 50+ years of experience.

Formerly known as Ambidextrous.

Inventors

Ken Goldberg, Jeffrey Mahler, Matthew Matl

Company Founders

UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg, Jeff Mahler (PhD ’18), Stephen McKinley (MS ’13, PhD ’...

20/20 Display Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

20/20 Display Technologies solution allows people to view their devices without having to wear glasses, contacts, or receive extensive surgeries. This technology helps read emails, view videos or search the web, seeing the images in sharp focus without wearing corrective eyewear.

Inventors

Brian Barsky, Fu-Chung Huang, Ramesh Raskar, Gordon Wetzstein

Timeline 2015. Company founded

Organos, Inc.

Brief Description Developer of cardiac micro physiological systems designed to offer three-dimensional (3D) human cardiac tissue models for advanced analysis. The company's data science ecosystem is used to illuminate the effects of compounds on human cardiac tissue, ranging from acute cardiotoxicity and safety pharmacology to chronic studies to predict drug-induced arrhythmia, thereby enabling the health industry to perform safer and cheaper drug development activities. Inventors

Kevin Healy, SoonGweon Hong, Luke Lee, Peter Loskill, Anurag Mathur Pia, Rodriguez Nunez...

EditPep, Inc.

Brief Description

CRISPR therapies enabled by a simple, potent delivery platform. The biotechnology company creates a class of peptides capable of delivering CRISPR enzymes into clinically-relevant and previously untransfectable cell types, enabling clients to get CRISPR therapies.

Founders

Dana Foss, Ross Wilson

Inventors

Ross Wilson, Dana Foss, Alexander Marson, Srishti Sahu, David-Huy Nguyen, John Hunsinger, Daniel Carr

Timeline 2021. Company founded. 2023. Company participated Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator, Batch 16...