IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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

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 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

Axent Biosciences

Brief Description

Axent Biosciences is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing next generation stem cell therapies to address unmet medical needs in human diseases/disorders. The company was spun out of research discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience David Schaffer. Axent's platform technologies in stem cell manufacturing and implantation leverage 20+ years of stem cell expertise and 10+ years of biomaterials engineering to overcome major bottlenecks in the clinical development...

Aptility, Inc.

Brief Description

A distributed thermostat architecture, system and software that provides energy efficiency, enhanced comfort, and load management functionality for residential HVAC operation. The underlying software is a platform for home intelligence using wireless sensor technology. The technology was developed by UC Berkeley Professor of Mechanical Engineering Paul Wright and Mechanical Engineering PhD student Nathan Ota.

Timeline 2008. Company founded Inventors

Nathan Ota, Paul Wright

Bio-H2

Brief Description

Bio-H2 was founded to commercialize a proprietary photosynthetic hydrogen production process that utilizes microalgal cultures.

Timeline 2002. Company founded Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Michael Seibert, John Benemann, Marc Forestier, Maria Ghirardi, Hsu Ching Wintz, Liping Zhang