IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Aguru Images, Inc.

Brief Description

Aguru Images, Inc. develops and markets image capture devices. It provides Dome, a spherical imaging device that is used for capturing the shape and reflectance properties of the human face to create computer generated digital doubles; Scope, a compact device that captures reflectance data for materials; and Scanner, which creates various photographs of an object moving lights across the image. The company's products are used in visual effects, animation, films, games, and multimedia and design industries. Aguru Images, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Rockville,...

Ansa Biotechnologies

Brief Description

With synthetic DNA fueling innovation in biological research, therapeutics, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing, there is an urgent need for faster and more accurate DNA synthesis. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained essentially unchanged for 35 years and has approached a plateau. Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a faster, more accurate, and cleaner enzyme-based DNA synthesis technology. The technique promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and engineering.

The approach is based on polymerase-...

Juvenon, Inc.

Brief Description

UC Berkeley scientists founded Juvenon to make their healthy aging breakthrough available to the public. The company's patented combination of natural micronutrients promotes a healthier, more energetic body and protects tissue from the toxic oxidants that increase with normal daily stress-producing activities and exercise, as well as with the aging process. Juvenon has expanded to multiple products that enable consumers to maintain vigor and functionality as they age, empowering millions of individuals worldwide to live better longer, and age gracefully.

The...

TruVideo, Inc.

Brief Description

Software to enable video viewing on mobile devices, offering faster speed, lower power consumption, smaller footprint, and superior visual quality. TruVideo's technology is deployed on mobile applications for Verizon Wireless, AllTell, and U.S. Cell.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Avideh Zakhor.

Timeline

1997. Company founded 2003. Product in the market Inventors

Sen-ching Cheung, Ralph Neff, Avideh Zakhor

Gaowei

Brief Description

Software for vehicle guidance. The company was founded by staff at UC Berkeley's Institute for Transportation Studies.

Timeline 2020. Company founded Inventors

Fanping Bu, Thomas Hessburg, Wei-Bin Zhang

Similix Corporation

Brief Description

Similix Corporation specializes in supporting lawyers, engineers, and businesses in evaluating possible infringement of software copyrights and other intellectual property. Similix's patented technology is based on algorithms developed in MOSS (for Measure of Software Similarity), which has been widely used by thousands of academic institutions for over a decade. Similix's product, MossPlus, is routinely used in multi-million dollar copyright and criminal theft cases to determine whether and which parts of large bodies of software have been copied, modified, or...

Singulex, Inc.

Brief Description

Singulex is an immunodiagnostics company at the forefront of Single Molecule Counting technology, a novel immunoassay technology recognized for unprecedented ultra sensitivity in the precision measurement of biomarkers. Singulex is the developer of the Singulex Clarity system, a fully automated, in vitro diagnostics platform powered by Single Molecule Counting technology. With up to 1,000 times more sensitivity than existing technologies, Single Molecule Counting reveals the presence or absence of disease more clearly and definitively than was possible before. The...

Serinus Labs

Brief Description Serinus Labs is the world`s first manufacturer of integrated silicon gas sensors. Enabled by cutting-edge nanotechnology, Serinus Labs specializes in providing custom solutions for existing and emerging gas sensor markets such as in industrial health and safety, automotive, consumer electronics and healthcare. Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors Ali Javey

Shrink Technologies, Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Shrink Technologies, Inc., based in Carlsbad, California, was acquired by Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. on May 29, 2009. Shrink Technologies specializes in developing innovative technologies, particularly focused on metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) applications. Their MEF technology, which integrates rapid prototyping methods with metal-fluorescence enhanced immunoassays, significantly enhances the sensitivity of diagnostic assays, making it possible to detect interactions that current methods miss. This technology has broad applications in drug discovery,...

Setex Technologies

Brief Description Setex Technologies is the leading manufacturer of gecko-inspired, dry adhesive solutions, offering innovative products that surpass traditional adhesives, gripping materials, and fasteners. Our Setex™ products empower product designers and engineers in both B2B and B2C sectors to create unique, first-to-market designs and address complex manufacturing challenges, enhancing both top-line and bottom-line performance. Founded in 2009 by Dr. Metin Sitti, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, nanoGriptech (now Setex Technologies) has built its expertise through nearly a...