IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Euclid Media

Brief Description

Founded by two graduate students around a digital brand graphics insertion technology for video advertising.

Euclid Media developed and built a platform that helped advertisers reach online audiences. The company specialized in professional and brand-safe content from the producers of Web shows. Its content network allowed sponsors to place embedded advertising and brand placements into online videos. The company offered a technology that enabled advertisers and content producers to roll out campaigns in various shows; and AdProps, which helped directors to...

EscharaX Medical, Inc.

Brief Description

Tissue engineering to develop biometric materials for replacement arteries, nerve grafts, and healing wounds.

Inventors

Craig Hashi, Ngan Fong Huang, Kyle Kurpinski, Song Li, Shyam Patel

Timeline 2007. Company founded

Epigenetic Gene Editing

Brief Description

Epigenetic Gene Editing is a gene editing tools company dedicated to improvements in CRISPR-Cas9 editing by providing a fusion protein kit to gene editing companies.

Formerly known as EPI-CRISPRx.

Inventors

Enrique Lin Shiao, Jennifer Doudna

Timeline 2021. Company founded

eNano Technologies

Brief Description

eNano Technologies is redefining what’s possible in the Internet of Things. The company has developed the world’s smallest smart tags, called nanoTags, which are 14 times smaller than Apple's AirTag, and powered by battery-free Bluetooth technology developed at UC Berkeley. Built to be simple, sustainable, and powerful, nanoTags are compatible with billions of devices, enabling people to stay effortlessly connected to the things that matter most.

Inventors

Kristofer Pister, Osama Khan, Bradley Wheeler, David Burnett

Timeline 2024. Company...

Ensighta Security, Inc.

Brief Description

Cybersecurity company founded by computer science professor Dawn Song.

Developer of a malware detection platform headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company offered software for the market-scale mobile malware static and dynamic analysis system.

Accelerated in Berkeley Skydeck.

FireEye acquired Ensighta Security for $3.2 million in 2012.

Inventors

Jin Chen, Zhijie Chen, Vijay D Silva, Shuaifu Dai, Noah Johnson Walls, Heejong Lee, Woenchan Lee, Woosuk Lee, Alessandro Reina, Xiaodong Song, Xiaoyin Wang, Hui Xue

Company...

Enable Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Enable Biosciences is an early-stage biotech company creating the next generation of tools for predictive medicine, with diagnostics 10,000x more sensitive than previous methods, for earlier detection and treatment of diseases like HIV and type 1 diabetes.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Carolyn Bertozzi, with Drs. Peter Robinson and Jason Tsai, who were PhD students in her lab. In 2022, Dr. Bertozzi shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for taking click chemistry, which allows molecules to snap together in a quick and efficient way,...

Emerging Objects Corp.

Brief Description

Emerging Objects is an independent, creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture and building components. Emerging Objects' innovation lies in the unique approach to materials and sizes and the belief that 3D printing is the medium where good ideas become real.

UC Berkeley Professor of Architecture Ronald Rael co-founded Emerging Objects with San Jose State University Professor of Design Virginia San Fratello.

Inventors

Ronald Rael

Company Founders

Ronald Rael, Virginia Fratello

Timeline ...

ElmedTech

Brief Description

Electronics and nanotechnology applications for medical technology.

Inventors

Boris Rubinsky, Gregory Troszak

Timeline 2012. Company founded

Elon Therapeutics, Inc

Brief Description

Developing a gel pill to painlessly spray a vaccine into the cheek and reach cells in the underlying tissue to trigger a mucosal immune response.

Inventors

Kiana Aran, Kunwoo Lee, Dorian Liepmann, Niren Murthy, Jacobo Paredes

Timeline 2015. Company founded

Elenae Therapeutics

Brief Description

Applying antisense oligonucleotide technology to target coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Inventors

Anders Naar, Sakari Kauppinen

Company Founders

Anders Naar (UC Berkeley, Ph.D. ’95, Molecular Pathology)

Timeline 2021. Company founded