IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Colusa Software

Brief Description

Colusa commercialized software for developers to produce memory-protected high-performance internet components in popular programming languages. The company provided a cross-language virtual machine that provided secure execution within systems such as databases and operating systems.

Microsoft Corporation acquired Colusa Software Inc. in 1996. Co-inventor, co-founder, and CEO Robert Wahbe became an executive at Microsoft after Colusa's acquisition.

Timeline 1993. Company founded 1996. Acquired by Microsoft...

CellASIC Corp.

Brief Description

CellASIC¨ ONIX Microfluidic Platform delivers precise control for live cell analysis experiments by facilitating long-term perfusion cell culture. Cutting-edge microfluidics technology provides an improved cell culture microenvironment, exceptional quality for high magnification microscopy, and superior media switching capabilities.

The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering Luke Lee and his graduate students Paul Hung and Philip Lee.

Timeline 2004. Company founded 2012...

Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Catalyst is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging exceptional science to discover and develop essential medicines. Catalyst is focused on creating and commercializing novel medicines to address serious medical conditions for patients who need new or better treatment options.

Timeline 2002. Company founded 2015. Company merged, acquiring Targacept through a reverse merger, resulting in the combined entity trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CBIO 2023. Merges with, and...

CaseForge, Inc.

Brief Description

CaseForge produces personalized stabilizers for use in research and clinical imaging. These stabilizers interface with medical devices to precisely position the patient and eliminate motion, guaranteeing comfortable, fast, simple placement consistency across treatments.

The company was founded by graduate students in the lab of Dr. Jack Gallant, a professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology, and an affiliate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and programs in Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Biophysics and Vision...

California Wave Power Tech

Brief Description

CalWave Power Technologies Inc. provides a solution to harness the renewable power of ocean waves to produce electricity and freshwater. CalWave’s patented Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is moored offshore, simple and scalable. WEC operates submerged, allowing it to survive stormy seas while causing no visual pollution or posing any collision danger.

CalWave co-founder and CEO Marcus Lehmann co-invented the company's foundational technology during his time as a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Marcus was inspired...

Wasatch Collaboratory

Brief Description

The Wasatch Collaboratory is an unbiased and neutral technology-based business development consultancy focused on helping proactive government laboratories, research universities, and private sector clients expand rapidly into new areas of R&D, product development, and technology commercialization.

Timeline 2015. Wasatch Collaboratory founded Inventors

Michael Andersen, Edward Arens, Wilmer Pasut, Hui Zhang

Vitruvian Medical Devices

Brief Description

Vitruvian Medical Devices specializes in surgical device innovations and wound care. The company's first product, MYOSEAL, is a sealing spray designed to prevent incisional hernias post operations. The company is working on refining a second product, the Sentinel Bandage - a bandage that senses tissue damage in real-time to prevent the formation of pressure ulcers.

The company has been incubated in the UCSF Catalyst Program, UCSF LaunchPad, QB3 Startup-in-a-Box, and National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean Startup.

Timeline...

Vitrichoric, Inc.

Brief Description

Vitrichoric, Inc. develops technology for high-stability supercooling of aqueous solutions or suspensions for the preservation of biological matter.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Gabriel Nastase, Boris Rubinsky, Gideon Ukpai

BioChoric

Brief Description

Biochoric uses isochoric supercooling to enable stable preservation of sensitive biological matter at sub-zero temperatures without freezing or solidification.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Matthew Powell-Palm, Boris Rubinsky

Vitapath Genetics Inc.

Brief Description

VitaPath develops and performs genomic-based tests to determine an individual's need for targeted therapy in certain medical conditions treatable with vitamins. Using our platform, we are leading the exploration of the Vitanome, the subset of information that lies within our genomes that plays a critical role in how we metabolize vitamins, and the commercialization of specific assays that test vitamin-remediable genetic variants. VitaPath's genetic tests are performed by highly skilled professionals in our CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited Clinical Laboratory....