IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

3C Energy Corporation

Brief Description

The company builds modular systems to capture and convert ambient carbon dioxide to value-added products such as fuels, biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, commodity chemicals, and biomass.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventor

Douglas Clark

Molecular Dynamics

Brief Description

The development of high speed, high throughput and highly accurate DNA sequencing methods was one prerequisite for the success of the Human Genome Project. In answer to this need, Richard Mathies and his lab at UC Berkeley developed a new method called capillary array electrophoresis (CAE) where multiple separations could be performed in parallel using bundles of microcapillaries and allowed the generation of over 2.8 million bases in 24 h.

Molecular Dynamics was acquired by Nycomed Amersham Pharmacia Biotech for approximately $256 million in 1998. Amersham was...

Opus Biosciences

Brief Description

The mission of Opus Biosciences is to advance the field of lipid nanoparticle delivery through the development of safer, higher efficacy, cost effective, and exceedingly efficient LNPs, surpassing industry standards. Opus is committed to unlocking existing limitations within the drug delivery space by enabling more frequent re-dosing, reducing toxicity, and improving and expanding therapeutic targets. The foundational technology was invented in the lab of Bioengineering Professor Niren Murthy at the UC Berkeley Innovative Genomics Institute.

Timeline 2023....

Avametric

Brief Description

Avametric technology enables brands to deliver accurate 3D renderings of their apparel & accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and augmented reality. With the proprietary software, business can recreate a real-world fitting room experience online, making it possible for customers to try on garments virtually with a personalized 3D avatar. The company was born out of ARCSims adaptive refining and corsening simulator technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Sciences James O'Brien. Dr. O'Brien co-founded Avametric,...

PhenomeX

Brief Description

PhenomeX empowered Digital Cell Biology by combining bioscience, technology and information in unique new ways to accelerate science. The platforms, assays and services, biologists can move faster and more efficiently to meet the demands for cell based processes in biotherapeutic discovery and development, cellular therapy manufacturing, synthetic biology, ag-bio, and other fields.

Formerly known as Berkeley Lights, Inc.

Timeline 2011. Year founded 2020. Initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker...

Ambrx Inc.

Brief Description Ambrx®, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a mission to deliver breakthrough protein-based therapeutics using an expanded genetic code. Unlike conventional conjugation techniques that create a mixture of suboptimal molecules, Ambrx technology combines site specific conjugation with proprietary linkers, payloads and pharmacokinetic extenders to create a single molecular species that is optimized for safety, efficacy and biophysical properties. We call this process Protein Medicinal Chemistry™.

Protein Medicinal Chemistry™ can optimize any protein or antibody to...

Picoyune

Brief Description

Picoyune replaces complex equipment with reliable, portable, and easy to use devices.

Their first target? Mercury. The company has developed a miniaturized, low-cost mercury sensor and applying it to personal exposure monitoring. The portable device is a good fit for testing in the field as there is no need for heavy lab equipment or carrier gas. It is also a practical mercury monitor for vulnerable artisanal/small-scale gold mining communities.

Timeline

2013. Company founded

Inventors

Catherine Koshland, Jeffrey Crosby, Jay James, Donald Lucas

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates

Brief Description

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping, and drillhole logging using digital methods implemented in two integrated and compatible mapping software systems, one for mapping and the other for logging.

Timeline 2001. Company founded Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas

TeraOps

Brief Description

Developer of OmniScope, a compact, portable night vision goggle system with multi-spectral sensing and enhanced color visualization.

Timeline

1996. Company founded

Inventors

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

Silicon Basis Ltd.

Brief Description

Low power SRAM memory IP compilers.

Timeline 2006. Company founded Inventors

Narasimha Bhat, Kamal Chaudhary