IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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...

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