IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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

Addition Therapeutics

Brief Description

Addition is transforming genetic medicine by developing RNA-only therapeutics that PRINT™ any genetic element at specific safe harbor sites.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Kathy Collins, Jeremy John McIntyre, Sarah Madeline Palm, Heather Upton, Briana Nicole Van Treeck. Xiaozhu Zhang

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

BeThere Computer Services

Brief Description

Software for ecommerce merchandising solutions.

Timeline 1997. Company founded Inventors

Jitendra Malik, Paul Debevek, Camillo Taylor

Kalinex, Inc.

Brief Description

Kalinex is developing technology that emulates the sense of smell, which is the only human/animal sense that has not yet been replicated in small devices and systems. The company's proprietary technology allows for the detection of molecules with extremely high sensitivity and selectivity. There is unaddressed need for such systems and a huge potential market in several industry verticals such as security (homeland defense), environmental monitoring, and petrochemicals.

Formerly known as Capil LLC.

Timeline 2004. Company founded Inventors

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Berkeley Madonna Inc.

Brief Description

Berkeley Madonna offers an incredibly fast, general purpose differential equations solver, which can handle large, memory-intensive models. Academic and commercial institutions use the software for for constructing mathematical models for research and teaching, solving ordinary differential equations, difference equations, multi-dimensional transcendental algebraic equation roots, and discrete simulations using conveyors, ovens, queues and more. The graphical interface provides an intuitive platform using symbols rather than writing equations, with a suite of tools for...

Berkeley BioSciences Inc.

Brief Description

Berkeley BioSciences, Inc. is a molecular immunology and oncology company with two divisions: biopharmaceutical and nutraceutical. It is researching and developing therapeutics and nutritional products based on patented naturally-occurring and biologically optimized phytonutrients with potent immune modulating and anti-cancer properties. The company was founded by Dr. Gary Firestone, former Chairman of the Nutritional Sciences Department and NIH Director of Cancer Research at UC Berkeley. The company's first...

Bandwidth9, Inc.

Brief Description

Bandwidth9, Inc. manufactured fiber-optic components and modules optimized for metro optical network systems. The company offered Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) and optical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Structure (MEMS) based optical components and subsystems. Its products included OC-48 tunable transmitter, a VCSEL device with a movable MEMS mirror. Bandwidth9, Inc. was formerly known as Bandwidth Unlimited, Inc.

Timeline 1998. Company founded Inventors

Connie Chang-Hasnain, Janice Hudgings, Kam Yin Lau, Sui Lim

Bandwidth10 Inc.

Brief Description

Bandwidth10 was founded to commercialize cutting-edge tunable lasers suited for high-speed and high-resolution sensing in the medical, industrial, automotive, and telecommunication industries. The company brings revolutionary wavelength-tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology to the market, delivering cost-effective tunable solutions that are out of reach with conventional technologies. The company’s swept-source VCSELs range in wavelength from 720 nm to 1700 nm for FBG sensing, 2D and 3D imaging, biosensing, gas sensing, LIDAR, industrial and...