IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Videnda, Inc.

Brief Description

Cellular Neural Network universal machine and super computer, nonlinear networks.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. Inventors

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

RareTerra, Inc.

Brief Description

RareTerra is developing a one-step environmentally friendly bio-process for selective rare-earth element (REE) extraction, separation, and purification that doesn't rely on harsh acids or high temperatures and pressures. RareTerra’s technology eliminates the costliest and most hazardous steps of the manufacturing process, and is compatible with complex, dilute, and waste REE sources. The company's proprietary process leverages the power of genetic and metabolic engineering to unlock the remarkable capacity of microbes to separate REEs from other metals and bioaccumulate...

Quadrant Imaging

Brief Description

LAMDA-based (laser amplified motion detection and analysis) ultra-high resolution optical microscopes with high-density data storage system, using a method of laser feedback interferometry which permits the imaging of nanometer-scale structures.

Timeline 1995. Company founded Inventors

Alan J. Bearden, Michael P. O'Niell

Geneditor Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Geneditor Biosciences is a pre-clinical stage gene editing company focused on the treatment of rare cancers with unmet medical needs.

Timeline 2021. Company founded. Inventor

Jennifer Doudna

GenoptX, LLC

Brief Description

A CRISPR-based gene editing company.

Formerly known as Syncodi.

Timeline 2019. Company founded. Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Abraham Isser Flamholz, Dana Nadler, Benjamin Oakes, David Frank Savage

Evercrisp Biosciences

Brief Description

Evercrisp Biosciences is a biotechnology company engineering self-deliverable CRISPR genome editors intended to improve the area of oncology. The company focuses on the discovery and development of protein-based genome editors as therapeutics for multiple disease areas, enabling healthcare organizations to have novel enzymes with high cell permeability and editing efficiency.

Timeline 2021. Company founded. Inventor

Jennifer Doudna

Secured Streams, Inc.

Brief Description

Software for document content search and comparison from large sets or across the web.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Alexander Aiken, Joel Auslander, Steve Fink, Saul Schleimer, Anthony Tomasic, Daniel Wilkerson

Myo Corps

Brief Description

Measuring muscle mass through analysis of creatinine in urine samples. The company's proprietary D3Creatine dilution method to measure muscle mass, termed the Muscle Assessment Test (MAT), is being used to assess muscle mass in several NIH sponsored cohort studies including the Framingham Heart Study, Women's Health Inititiative, Tobago Longitudinal Aging Study, the Study on Muscle, Mobility, and Aging (SOMMA), and more. The goal is to achieve FDA approval for the MAT as a diagnostic test for muscle mass.

MyoCorps CEO William J. Evans, PhD, is an...

OmniTact

Brief Description

OmniTact was founded to commercialize a robotic manipulation sensor designed by researchers at UC Berkeley. The sensor uses micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations of a gel-based skin. It is designed to be used as a fingertip for robotic manipulation with robotic hands, and uses multiple micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations. This provides a rich signal from which a variety of different contact state variables can be inferred using modern image processing and computer vision methods.

Timeline 2020. Company founded...

SmartSense Energy

Brief Description

SmartSense Energy developed sensors that predict faults in underground electric utility cables, enabling repair of cables before faults occur. The company received California Energy Commission's Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) to spin out technology from UC Berkeley research into a company. Founder and CEO Ryan Hanley, Haas MBA 2011, and his team accelerated the commercialization of the technology in the UC Berkeley Cleantech to Market course, and the team won the Cleantech to Open Business Plan Competition in 2010.

Timeline 2010. Company...