IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Cell Guidance Systems Ltd

Brief Description

Cell Guidance Systems is based in Cambridge (UK), at the heart of one of the world's most exciting biotech regions. The company develops therapeutic products as well as medical research tools and technologies that expand the possibilities of life science research and medicine. The company's success has been achieved by working closely with many researchers from around the world (including Japan, USA, Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, and the UK) to develop truly innovative products that address unmet medical and research needs. Many of the Cell...

Nexilico

Brief Description

Nexilico, Inc. is an early-stage startup with the mission to advance microbiome and precision medicine research and development by developing next generation of predictive, computational platforms that improve drug design and development as well as therapeutics clinical outcome.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventor

Mohammad Mofrad

NanoVasc

Brief Description

NanoVasc, Inc. is a medical device company that designs and manufactures biomimetic materials that are non-thrombogenic, durable and demonstrate long-term patency. The Company uses an electrospinning process to manufacture scaffolds in a multitude of shapes and sizes, and then application-specific modifications are applied to the scaffolds surface in order to achieve desired results. These specific modifications are designed to optimize the devices outcome based on its delivery location. The Company's first product is a synthetic vascular graft for hemodialysis access....

NanoNerve

Brief Description

NanoNerve is a medical device company developing tissue engineered implant solutions for neurosurgery. Their mission is to improve patient outcome by providing neurosurgeons with innovative solutions that encourage rapid neural tissue recovery and minimize complications. Using their patented aligned fiber technology platform we engineer graft implants with specific biophysical cues that enhance and direct neural tissue regeneration.

Timeline 2006. Company founded Inventors

Craig Hashi, Ngan Fong Huang, Kyle Kurpinski, Song Li, Shyam Patel

Nadaeon

Brief Description

Life sciences company.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Danica Chen, Hanzhi Luo

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.

Timeline 2023. Company founded Inventors

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

MuMec, Inc.

Brief Description

MuMec builds wireless transceiver technologies that drastically reduce power consumption for use with Bluetooth LE (BLE) and LoRa/Sigfox protocols. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley, MuMec integrates Radio Frequency MEMS technology with CMOS design, offering a 10-100x reduction in power consumption, enabling consumer devices and IoT applications to extend battery life, enable always-on wireless connectivity, and operate entirely on scavenged power.

The company is disrupting the wireless communication market by offering the truly ultra-low power wireless ICs...

Lygos, Inc.

Brief Description

Lygos' technology goes beyond engineering microbes and includes fermentation and purification development. Our goal is to manufacture and sell chemicals. This work has been supported, in part, by over $6.5MM in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and National Science Foundation.

Timeline 2011. Company founded Inventors

Jeffrey Fortman, Leonard Katz, Jay Keasling

Lumiphore, Inc.

Brief Description

Lumiphore develops proprietary bi-functional chelators for biomedical applications in drug discovery research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. These include biological detection systems based on luminescent lanthanide complexes (which provide a unique combination of sensitivity, reliability, flexibility and high throughput) and radioisotope chelators for attachment to carrier molecules used in cancer therapeutics and radio-imaging diagnostics that can be paired as a companion diagnostics in radio-pharmaceutical therapeutics.

Timeline 2001. Company...

Luminus Devices, Inc.

Brief Description

For almost two decades, Luminus has worked with the community of light to solve its most challenging problems. For much of its first decade Luminus focused on improving energy efficiency, light output, the quality of light, and longevity, and developing new form factors to address the needs in many different application areas including architectural and urban, displays and projection, horticulture and illumination.

Having successfully addressed technology challenges, Luminus has been working with lighting designers to make sure that the company's LED technology can...