IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Redwood Bioscience Inc.

Brief Description

Redwood Bioscience, Inc. develops a protein-chemical engineering technology to produce antibody-drug conjugates and other semi-synthetic biotherapeutics. The company offers SMARTag site-specific protein modification and cytotoxin-linker technologies that enable the generation of homogenous bioconjugates engineered to enhance potency, safety, and stability. Its SMARTag platform provides precise payload positioning and defined stoichiometry of payload-protein ratios. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Emeryville, California. Redwood Bioscience, Inc....

Q-Chem Inc.

Brief Description

Q-Chem, Inc. is a comprehensive ab initio quantum chemistry program to solve computational problems faster, more accurately and less expensively than ever before possible. Q-Chem's capabilities facilitate applications in pharmaceuticals, materials science, biochemistry, and other fields. Q-Chem also provides users with the highest level of technical support.

Timeline 1993. Company founded 1997. Product in market Inventors

Alex Sodt, Andreas Dreuw, Anna Krylov, Anthony Dutoi, Barry Dunietz, Brian Austin, Chao Ping Hsu; Charles...

Protiveris, Inc.

Brief Description

Protiveris Inc. develops and commercializes micro- and nanocantilever systems for academic research, drug discovery and development, bio-defense, protein research, and discovery of new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic applications.

Timeline 1998. Company founded Inventors

Ohmyyoung Kwon, Arunava Majumdar, Minyao Mao, Thomas Perazzo, Guanghua Wu, Yang Zhao

Propagate Sensing

Brief Description

Measuring changes in temperature and strain distributed along the length of an optical fiber with Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry for civil engineering projects.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Bo Li, Linqing Luo, Kenichi Soga, Jize Yan, Yifei Yu

Prolific Machines

Brief Description

Prolific Machines specializes in cell production with a unique manufacturing approach that combats climate change, enables space-food, and makes cell therapy accessible to everyone. The company's photomolecular biology platform leverages safe and effective tools — light, bioengineering, hardware, and AI — for dynamic control over virtually any cell function in any cell type. With the technology, partners can more efficiently biomanufacture nutritional proteins, antibodies to treat diseases, cultivated meat, and more.

Timeline 2020. Company founded...

Personal Comfort Systems Inc.

Brief Description

Personal Comfort Systems, Inc. (PCS) was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in July 2014 by cofounders Peter Rumsey and Kurt Herzog. At the same time PCS signed an exclusive license for the patent of a heated and cooled office chair with smart controls and whole building interface capabilities. The chair now called the Hyperchair, is to be sold to companies who want to address employee comfort and energy savings.

Timeline 2014. Company founded Inventors

Michael Andersen, Edward Arens, Wilmer Pasut, Hui...

Pinnacle Photonics

Brief Description

Pinnacle Photonics develops high-efficiency vertical-cavity surface emitting laser arrays for 3D-sensing and ranging applications.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Connie Chang-Hasnain, Kevin Cook, Jonas Horst Kapraun, Emil Kolev, Jipeng Qi, PengFei Qiao, Jiaxing Wang

Persistent Efficiency

Brief Description

Persistent Efficiency was founded with the goal of providing cost-effective, sustainable energy-monitoring solutions.

Timeline 2014. Company founded Inventors

Jeremy Coyle, Igor Paprotny, Jason Trager, Richard White, Qiliang Xu

Peregrine Biotechnology

Brief Description

Production of foie gras without force feeding.

Timeline 2017. Company founded Inventors

Jacob Corn, Benjamin Gregor Gowen

Omniox, Inc.

Brief Description

Omniox is an early stage biopharmaceutical company developing new medicines for hypoxic diseases. Hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) impacts cancer, cardiovascular diseases, trauma and many other conditions. The company has engineered an unusually stable oxygen carrier technology (H-NOX) to deliver oxygen into hypoxic tissues and improve the treatment of severe unmet medical needs. The technology overcomes the modes of failure of prior efforts in the field of oxygen therapeutics.

Timeline 2006. Company founded. Inventors

Elizabeth Boon,...