IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

IMYu

Brief Description

Rejuvenation therapy based on a modified version of an already FDA-approved plasma exchange technique known as plasmapheresis, in which a machine separates the plasma (the liquid part of the blood) from the blood cells and then returns the blood to the person receiving treatment. The company's approach, called next gen-apheresis, promises to spur the rejuvenation of organs and tissues as people age.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Irina Conboy, Michael Conboy, Wendy Cousin, Christian Elabd, Yutong Liu, Melod Mehdipour, David...

Imprint Energy, Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Imprint Energy aims to reshape the battery landscape. Currently available battery technologies limit the pace of improvement in design and functionality of portable electronic devices. Imprint Energy will address these shortcomings with its breakthrough zinc-based rechargeable battery technology, ZincPolyª. ZincPolyª battery technology removes longstanding limitations on the rechargeability of zinc-based batteries and enables the production of ultrathin, flexible, high energy density rechargeable batteries for significantly lower cost and without the design limitations or...

iMEDD, Inc.

Brief Description

Drug delivery based on micro-engineering technology utilizing silicon microcapsules with nanofilters so that treatments can be controlled and targeted to particular cells and sites in the body.

The company licensed intellectual property that had been previously licensed to UC Berkeley spinout Iris Micromedical. The IP was developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Engineering Mauro Ferrari, who moved to Ohio State University in 1999 as a professor of bioengineering, internal medicine, and mechanical engineering. In conjunction with Dr....

Global Newborn Solutions, Inc.

Brief Description

Global Newborn Solutions (GNS) develops medical innovations to address the most vital components of neonatal health and survival in resource-limited settings.

​GNS has commercialized an infant warming device called the Dream Warmer, which was invented by UC Berkeley and LBNL researchers to save the lives of infants suffering from hypothermia in low income countries, where premature and low-birth weight infants are particularly at risk. The wrap-around pad keeps infants warm. It contains a phase-change material, which is a substance that can absorb and release large...

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...

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.

Timeline 2011. Company founded. 2012. FireEye acquired Ensighta Security. Inventors

Jin Chen, Zhijie Chen, Vijay D Silva, Shuaifu Dai, Noah Johnson Walls,...

DNA Sciences, Inc.

Brief Description

While gene sequencing and gene expression technologies have become relatively industrialized, genetic analysis is a time-consuming, labor intensive, and rate-limiting step in drug discovery. DNA Sciences, Inc. removed this bottleneck by developing a high-throughput system that miniaturizes and automates genotyping.

The company's genotyping technology relied on microchannel electrophoretic DNA separation technology combined with fluorescent detection of PCR-amplified DNA. The company licensed the technology from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Ltd. (Uppsala, Sweden) and...

Digital Mosaic Systems, Inc.

Brief Description

Developing a cellular neural network and super-computer bionic eye.

Timeline 1999. Company founded. Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

CommandCAD, Inc.

Brief Description

CommandCAD, Inc. offers software solutions that enable foundries and design teams to achieve strategically critical efficiencies in the development of next generation chips and technologies. The integrated circuits layout technology is designed for architectural, construction, and woodworking designs. The company's integrated circuits layout optimization technology enhances physical verification and yield optimization by linking design data to metrology, and hotspot analysis, and improving optical proximity correction for design.

CommandCad's core technology was...

Fortiphyte

BRIEF DESCRIPTION Working with nature to create a greener future.

Provider of agricultural protection products that protect crops from disease and reduce fungicide use. The company helps identify natural disease resistance traits to accelerate the development of disease-resistant crop varieties.

Protecting plants from disease improves the yield, quality, and reliability of harvests to benefit growers and consumers.

Reducing agricultural chemicals in agriculture results in: less residue in food, reduced exposure for farm workers and nearby communities, less runoff into...