IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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...

OnWafer Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description As of January 16, 2007, OnWafer Technologies, Inc. was acquired by KLA-Tencor Corporation. OnWafer Technologies, Inc. manufactures lithography and plasma etch products to the semiconductor industry. The company's products include Baketemp, which allows temperature monitoring of resist track bake plates; Onview data analysis system, a process viewing system; Bakeinfo analysis engine, which tracks the thermal profile of various plates for viewing and identifying excursion events; Autocal, a software application; AutoCD, which pushes the servo point forward; and SmartFOUP that...

Onix Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

OniX Microsystems, Inc. was engaged in the design, development, and supply of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based all-optical switching engines for telecommunications equipment suppliers. Its products covered optical switching needs, including network protection and provisioning, optical add/drop multiplexing, and optical cross connects. OniX offered MEMS design and photonic packaging services.

Timeline 1998. Company founded. Inventors

Behrang Behin, Kam Yin Lau, Richard Muller

OneD Battery Sciences

Brief Description

In 2013, the company acquired nanowire technologies and Palo Alto R&D activities from Nanosys.

Today, OneD Battery Sciences operates a SiNANODE® pilot production to support the development of advanced electrochemical cells and the initial production of its technology licensees.

OneD Baterry Sciences CTO Dr. Yimin Zhu leads a team that continues to improve the SiNANODE® technology and supports customers producing advanced energy storage solutions for various markets.

OneD Battery Science engages with leading material suppliers, battery makers, and...

OncoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Brief Description

OncoRx Pharmaceuticals is an early-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing targeted therapies that control the progression of invasive malignant cancer. OncoRx has identified and tested drugs that markedly alter the sustained directional mobility, the uncontrolled cell cycle, and t​​he unrestrained growth and proliferation of intrinsically and acquired therapy-resistant tumors. Unlike non-aggressive primary tumors, the growth, progression and invasiveness of therapy-resistant tumors are not effectively controlled with currently available cancer therapies...

Oncobionic

Brief Description

Oncobionic commercialized irreversible electroporation (IRE) technology, a minimally invasive treatment for tumors that revolutionized cancer therapy. The minimally invasive surgical system delivers 1,500 volts of electric current through needle-like probes, ablating the targeted area, making it possible to remove unresectable tumors near critical structures and major blood vessels without cuts or incisions. IRE exclusively targets the tumor’s cell membranes, leaving critical organs, vasculature, ducts and nerves completely unharmed.

The IRE...

Libraria, Inc.

Brief Description

Libraria Inc. is using computational techniques to discover new small-molecule drugs that can be administered orally. Its proprietary technology enables the company and its partners to leverage known molecular structures, chemistry protocols, and bioactivity data to speed the chemistry phase of drug discovery by up to 50%.

Timeline

2000. Company founded.

2003. Acquired by Eidogon-Sertanty.

Inventors Jonathan Ellman

IntegenX

Brief Description

IntegenX is the market leader of Rapid DNA technology for human identification in forensics and law enforcement applications. IntegenX’s RapidHIT technologies integrate advanced fluidics, optics, and biochemistry capabilities to produce sample-to-answer solutions for DNA-based human identity testing. The RapidHIT ID System for Crime Labs generates lab-...

Inktomi Corporation

Brief Description

Inktomi's core technology was born out of US DARPA funded research on massively paralleled systems. The company's original focus was on large scale Internet search, providing private-labeled search services to some of the world's best known search engines including Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, and others. Inktomi later introduced high-end network cacheing software, sold primarily to telecom and internet service providers, to dramatically improve the performance of web-based network traffic.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Eric...

Iris Micromedical, Inc.

Brief Description

Drug delivery based on microstructural devices that administer therapeutic agents to selected target sites for treatment.

Iris Micromedical was focused on the development of UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Engineering Mauro Ferrari's silicon particulate technology for the intravascular targeted treatment of cancer imedd.

Four years after founding Iris Micromedical, Dr. Ferrari moved to Ohio State University as a professor of bioengineering, internal medicine, and mechanical engineering, and reformed the company as IMedd, Inc.

Timeline 1995....