IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Namuh

Brief Description Namuh is on a mission to close the nutritional gap between infant formula and human milk. The company provides parents with infant nutrition closest to breast milk at the molecular level, using only clean and thoughtfully-sourced human milk ingredients so parents can nourish their babies with confidence. This is made possible by NAMUH’s proprietary yeast-based technology to create human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), the critical missing ingredient, structurally identical to those found in breast milk. Powered by the clean HMOs and partnerships with premium protein/lipid...

MRL Bio

Brief Description

The company is developing a unique drug delivery platform for tissue regeneration in acute and chronic wounds.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Phillip Messersmith, Jing Cheng, Ellen Heber-Katz

Monolets, Inc

Brief Description

MonoLets, Inc. is a systems company developing a wireless sensor network for the Internet of Things. The company builds the network with the lowest power System-on-Chip (SoC) hardware platform that can be operated from harvested energy requiring no external battery.

Inventors David Burnett, Osama Khan, Kristofer Pister, Bradley Wheeler

Lymphax, Inc.

Brief Description

Lymphax, Inc. is a therapeutics company treating ocular diseases and conditions.

Formerly known as NewVision Bioscience, Inc.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Lu Chen, Sammy Grimaldo, Meng Shi, Don Yuen

Lightstage LLC

Brief Description

Light Stage systems efficiently capture how an actor's face appears when lit from every possible lighting direction. From this captured imagery, specialized algorithms create realistic virtual renditions of the actor in the illumination of any location or set, faithfully reproducing the color, texture, shine, shading, and translucency of the actor's skin.

UC Berkeley, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers invented the Light Stage technology, led by Paul Debevec (Berkeley...

Leucadia Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

IRIS International acquired Leucadia Technologies for $10.1 million in 2006.

Timeline 1998. Company founded 2006. Acquired by IRIS International, Inc. Inventors

Charles Cantor, Roy Chuck, Doris Tse

Laguna Bio

Brief Description

Developer of drug discovery platform designed to selectively activate and expand the innate immune system against cancer. The company specializes in providing a specific type of T cell for the immune system to fight solid tumors by increasing the response rate of a bispecific antibody drug, enabling patients to survive a deadly disease like cancer.

Timeline 2022. Company founded Inventors

Daniel Portnoy, Thomas Patrick Burke, Juliana Durack, Jonathan Lewis Portman, Christopher Rae, Rafael Jose Rivera Lugo, Kimberly Makiko Sogi, Sarah Ann Stanley,...

C. Light Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

C. Light Technologies, Inc. is revolutionizing the way we detect, monitor, and treat multiple sclerosis (MS) through the use of a patented, non-invasive, IRB-approved retinal eye-tracker - the tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscope (TSLO) with accompanying machine learning algorithms. In the future, our vision is to use the TSLO for other applications, including concussions, Parkinson’s, ALS, and Alzheimer’s.

Timeline 2014. Company founded 2023. C. Light receives FDA clearance for retinal eye movement monitor, Retitrack Inventors

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Berkeley Yeast

Brief Description

Berkeley Yeast is a startup founded by UC Berkeley scientists, with grant funding from NSF, NIH, and USDA, as well as from venture capital. Berkeley Yeast bioengineers yeast strains that improve fermentation for brewers, winemakers, and beyond. The company uses synthetic biology to develop yeast strains with a variety of benefits, ranging from unprecedented control over flavors, to protection against the increasing vulnerability of crops, to greater product shelf stability and increased production efficiency. CEO Charles Denby co-founded the company based on the...

Berkeley Microinstrument, Inc.

Brief Description

Berkeley MicroInstrument exploited flexural-plate-wave technology to develop sensors and actuators. FPW delay lines make use of ultrasonic waves generated by micromachined membranes on silicon chips, providing high sensitivity to actuators as well as physical and gravimetric sensors.

Timeline 1993. Company founded Inventors

Stuart Wenzel, Richard White