IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Magan Materials

Brief Description

Magan Materials was founded to commercialize a revolutionary antioxidant material, called cerium carbonate, discovered by UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Professor Alexander Katz’s research group. The company has integrated this natural, mineral-based chemical compound into a uniquely designed spray for preventing cancers of the hand caused by LED nail gel curing lamps.

While gel manicures are loved for their durability and shine, the lamps used to cure gel polish emit UV rays—similar to those used in tanning beds—which can accelerate skin aging and increase 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...

HypO2Regen Therapeutics

Brief Description

HypO2Regen’s is developing novel, disease-modifying therapeutics for chronic intractable inflammatory diseases, including what would be the first cell-free stem cell treatment that induces true regeneration of tissue damaged by chronic inflammation. The company's first focus on improving the lives of more than 300 million people in the United States and Europe with moderate to severe periodontitis, up to 70% of whom are either undertreated or untreated.

Timeline 2024. Company founded Inventors

Phillip Messersmith, Jing Cheng, Ellen Heber-Katz

FLX Micro, Inc.

Brief Description

FLX Micro, Inc. manufactures silicon carbide-based microsensors. The company develops its products through silicon carbide deposition and microfabrication technology platform. Its products are used in various applications, such as automotive, energy, environmental, and manufacturing. The company was formerly known as Fiberlead, Inc.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. Inventors

Di Gao, Roger Howe, Roya Maboudian

Imprint Energy, Inc.

Brief Description

Imprint Energy aims to reshape the battery landscape. Currently available battery technologies limit the pace of improvement in design and functionality of portable electronic devices. Imprint Energy will address these shortcomings with its breakthrough zinc-based rechargeable battery technology, ZincPolyª. ZincPolyª battery technology removes longstanding limitations on the rechargeability of zinc-based batteries and enables the production of ultrathin, flexible, high energy density rechargeable batteries for significantly lower cost and without the design limitations or...

Abacus Power, Inc.

Brief Description

Abacus Power is pioneering power delivery systems that increase power density and efficiency for data centers, satellites, and the aerospace industry.

Timeline 2024. Company founded Inventors

Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Yicheng Zhu, Nathan Ellis

TeraOps

Brief Description

Developer of OmniScope, a compact, portable night vision goggle system with multi-spectral sensing and enhanced color visualization.

Timeline 1996. Company founded Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

Vivere Oncotherapies

Brief Description

Gene and cell therapies for cancer.

Timeline 2024. Company founded. Inventors

Adam Schieferecke, John Dueber, David Schaffer, Juan Eduardo Hurtado, Hyun-Cheol Lee

eNano Technologies

Brief Description

eNano Technologies is redefining what’s possible in the Internet of Things. The company has developed the world’s smallest smart tags, called nanoTags, which are 14 times smaller than Apple's AirTag, and powered by battery-free Bluetooth technology developed at UC Berkeley. Built to be simple, sustainable, and powerful, nanoTags are compatible with billions of devices, enabling people to stay effortlessly connected to the things that matter most.

Timeline 2024. Company founded Inventors

Kristofer Pister, Osama Khan, Bradley Wheeler, David Burnett

Ansa Biotechnologies

Brief Description

With synthetic DNA fueling innovation in biological research, therapeutics, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing, there is an urgent need for faster and more accurate DNA synthesis. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained essentially unchanged for 35 years and has approached a plateau. Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a faster, more accurate, and cleaner enzyme-based DNA synthesis technology. The technique promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and engineering.

The approach is based on polymerase-...