IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Artris Therapeutics, Inc.

Brief Description

Artris Therapeutics was founded to identify and develop cancer therapeutics. The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics Daniel Nomura.

Timeline

2017. Company founded Inventors

Leslie Bateman, Jessica Cestellos Spradlin, Tucker Huffman, David Miyamoto, Elizabeth Anne Moore, Truc Bang Nguyen, Daniel Nomura, James Arthur Olzmann, Allison Marie Roberts, Carl Ward

ArKal Medical Inc.

Brief Description

ArKal Medical has developed the next generation continuous glucose monitoring system, using its minimally invasive, proprietary and patented MicroTipª technology. The Microtipsª provide painless access to ISF glucose. The ArKal CGM sensor is worn externally on the skin like a patch and measures glucose using classical electrochemical glucose oxidase enzyme-based chemistry. The GlucoPodª CGM system consists of three main components: a disposable sensor patch, a reusable transmitter, and a reusable wireless smart receiver.

Timeline 2004. Company founded...

Ambi Robotics

Brief Description

Ambi Robotics offers advanced robot grasping software for logistics and warehouse order fulfillment, allowing robots to grasp a wide variety of objects.

Ambi Robotics grew from the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) project at UC Berkeley and is led by Dr. Jeff Mahler and Professor Ken Goldberg, experts in robot grasping with a combined 50+ years of experience.

Formerly known as Ambidextrous.

Timeline 2018. Company founded Inventors

Ken Goldberg, Jeffrey Mahler, Matthew Matl

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...