IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Marco Medical

Brief Description

Prevention and treatment of Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness that affects around 80 million people worldwide.

Timeline 2023. Company founded Inventor

Lu Chen

Medarex

Brief Description

Medarex is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and potential commercialization of fully human antibody-based therapeutics to treat life- threatening and debilitating diseases, including cancer, inflammation, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Medarex applies its UltiMAb® technology and product development and clinical manufacturing experience to generate, support and potentially commercialize a broad range of fully human antibody products for itself and its partners. Medarex is committed to building value by developing a diverse pipeline of...

Menlo Security

Brief Description

Menlo Security is eliminating the threat of advanced malware by introducing a new cyber security model. The company's software protects against threats and attacks that bypass many advanced security products by mirroring content from a remote browser in the cloud to the desktop, enabling clients to surf safely and securely, with a proprietary Adaptive Clientless Rendering (ACR) technology. The ACR technology was born out of research in the lab of cyber security and privacy expert Dawn Song, a UC Berkeley Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...

Mend Neuroscience, Inc.

Brief Description

Mend Neuroscience, Inc. is a therapeutics company treating cognitive disorders.

Timeline 2020. Company founded Inventors

Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman, Luisa Cacheaux

Mendel Biological Solutions

Brief Description

Mendel Biological Solutions creates new technologies to satisfy the evolving needs of the agricultural industry. The biological research and development team is focused on biological crop solutions that increase crop yield through naturally-derived products. Mendel Biological Solutions is committed to providing the innovations that will help sustain crops around the world.

Mendel Biological Solutions was acquired by Koch Agronomic Services in 2014.

Timeline 1997. Company founded 2014. Company acquired by Koch Agronimic Services...

Mercator MedSystems Inc.

Brief Description

Mercator MedSystems, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on the treatment of peripheral artery disease utilizing its catheter-guided, microfluid infusion systems for site-specific, non-systemic delivery of therapeutic agents directly across any blood vessel. The Company's technology also enables the commercialization of novel therapeutics for other vascular diseases, hypertension, oncology, and regenerative medicine. The Company's Cricketª and Bullfrog Micro-Infusion Catheters are the first vascular-access systems able to infuse drugs, genes, and cells...

mFluiDx

Brief Description

mFluiDx is aiming to develop the world’s lowest cost, automated point-of-care DNA diagnostic assay for small clinics. In small clinics, such as primary care out-patient clinics, disease diagnosis is typically done by observing symptoms or using paper-strip antibody tests. However, these methods have poor sensitivity compared to DNA diagnostics. Highly sensitive molecular DNA tests (PCR) are not often used because of cost and the need to send tests off-site resulting in a slow turnaround time (several days).

mFluiDx is a UC Berkeley startup developing Gates...

Microbial Medical

Brief Description

Microbial Medical was established to launch novel imaging agents and drugs for diagnosing and treating bacterial and fungal infections, based on a platform technology for chemically linking existing medical compounds with sugars that pathogens consume and human cells reject. The launch products were contrast agents that enable common medical scanners to image infection. The company also planned to produce antibiotics that address antibiotic resistance and have reduced toxicity.

Timeline 2015. Company founded Inventors

Kiyoko Takemiya, Mark Goodman...

Microreactor Technologies

Brief Description

Developer of miniature bioreactor technology platforms. The company offers improved cell fermentation and cultivation productivity services. It develops and operates Micro-24, fermentation and cell culture system which runs up to 24 simultaneous experiments with independent control of each reactor's gas supply, temperature, and pH.

Microreactor Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, in 2010.

Timeline 2003. Company founded 2010. Company...

Microgrid Labs

Brief Description

Microgrid Labs Inc (MGL) is a consulting and software company specializing in microgrids and electrification of transportation.

The company's consulting arm follows a simple and practical approach to planning microgrids and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The company helps clients assess needs, analyze the state of operations, model future operating scenarios, and design the most economical solutions.

Complementing the consulting practice, the company also offers software platforms for modeling, simulation, and optimization of EV charging...