IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

The mission of Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc. is to apply wireless technology to improve the productivity, energy efficiency, and environmental footprint of heavy industry. The company offers mesh networking, sensors, and model-based control software. Inventor and President of Wireless Industrial Technologies Dr. James Evans, was a UC Berkeley Faculty member for 35 years, serving as professor of metallurgy
and mineral engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Timeline 2005. Company founded. Inventors

James Evans,...

YourChoice Therapeutics

Brief Description

YourChoice Therapeutics is revolutionizing birth control options for women and men by developing hormone-free contraceptives and bringing them to market. Our technology is the result of a decade of research at the University of California, Berkeley and has been published in numerous high-impact journals.

Timeline 2018. Company founded Inventors

Yuriy Kirichok, Polina Lishko, Nadja Mannowetz, Melissa Miller

ZestBio

Brief Description A biotechnology company harnessing synthetic biology to convert the low value, abundant fruit and vegetable byproducts like citrus peels and sugar beet pulp into useful products such as household cleaning ingredients, bio-based plastics, vitamins, and other specialty chemicals, thereby enabling customers to receive renewable, eco-friendly products at a reasonable cost. Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors John Dueber, Ryan Joseph Protzko

Xenometrix, Inc.

Brief Description Xenometrix, Inc. developed proprietary gene response profiling and genotoxicity technologies to enable high throughput screening for genotoxicity, helping the pharmaceutical industry improve the effectiveness of drug discovery and development through lead compound optimization. The company's goal was to accelerate the selection of promising drug and chemical leads for pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology industries. The company's bioinformatics team assembled a database of gene profiles for public domain pharmaceuticals. Timeline 1991. Company founded...

Water Harvesting, Inc

Brief Description Water Harvesting Inc. was formed in 2018 to commercialize atmospheric water harvesting systems based on metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and address the global challenge of water scarcity. MOFs work for atmospheric water harvesting even under very arid conditions. Timeline 2018. Company founded. Inventors Farhad Fathieh, Nikita Hanikel, Markus Kalmutzki, Ievgen Kapustin, Hao Lyu, Mathieu Steven Prevot, Omar Yaghi, JingJing Yang, Bing Zhang

Ogma Scientific

Brief Description

Ogma Scientific works with clients in the energy, mining and agriculture sectors and clients in the chemical industry to identify innovative treatment strategies for problems in industrial ecosystems. Our high-throughput screening services are uniquely tailored to identify successful treatments to stop undesirable microbial activity that impacts industrial processes. Examples include biosouring in the oil sector and acid mine drainage in the mining sector. Biosouring alone, caused by the inadvertent stimulation of microbial activity during oil or gas recovery, costs the...

O.N. Diagnostics, LLC

Brief Description

O.N. Diagnostics was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tony M. Keaveny based on biomedical engineering research conducted at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. The company's mission is to improve patient outcomes by developing non-invasive and clinically effective diagnostic applications that quantitatively exploit the richness of information in CT scans. The company achieves scientific and technological excellence through rigorous research and validation, combined with the highest industry standards in execution and quality control....

Noble Thermodynamic Systems

Brief Description

Noble Thermodynamics is a clean-tech startup spun out from the Combustion Analysis Laboratories at University of California, Berkeley. Our core technology, the Argon Power Cycle, is a closed-loop IC engine cycle using a noble gas working fluid to increase efficiency and facilitate exhaust product separation. We are focused on applications in carbon-free power production, deep grid-energy storage, enhanced oil recovery, and carbon capture and sequestration.

Timeline 2015. Company founded. Inventors

Jyh-Yuan Chen, Robert Woodrow Dibble, Timothy Burke...

Indoor Reality, Inc

Brief Description

Indoor Reality's visual and metric documentation of the indoors creates technological bridges between the physical and digital worlds. The company's patented hardware and software platform automates 3D-tagging of objects, and dimension measurements, making it possible for property owners, facility managers, and others to provide real time, 3D tours of facilities. Applications include architecture, engineering, and construction, energy audits, facilities management, commercial real estate, first respondents, and real time occupancy tracking.

The company was founded...

suitX

Brief Description

suitX brought advanced accessible exoskeletons to industrial and medical markets with funding from venture capital, industry, and government.

Formerly known as U.S. Bionics.

Acquired by Ottobock in 2021.

Timeline 2011. Company founded. 2021. Acquired by Ottobock. Inventors

Homayoon Kazerooni, Adam Zoss, Andre Nguyen Van Qui, Bradley Perry, Christina Yee, Daniel Merala, David Cuban, Dong-Jin Hyun, Dylan Fairbanks, Erich Hacker, Han Woong Bae, James Alden Hatch, Jason Reid, JiaLong James Ren, Jing Song Huang, JJ Kuwata...