IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Modulus Video, Inc.

Brief Description

The company developed MPEG-4 advanced video coding (AVC) compression systems designed for HD video content delivery. The technology, based on how the brain processes images, was co-invented by UC Berkeley Professor of Neurobiology William Geoffrey Owen and Sean McCarthy (Berkeley PhD, Bioengineering). The inventors co-founded startup Sensory Technologies, later renamed Viasense, to commercialize a perceptual processing tool kit for professional pay TV encoders, leveraging their research into the biology of human vision. The intellectual property was then licensed to...

MediFuel Inc.

Brief Description

MediFuel is the first tiny, Biological Fuel Cell (BFC) Company solving the power problem of the next generation of implantable medical devices – a market which is projected to reach over a billion dollars. The company's technology is a GlucoCell ™ , a MEMS based power chip that harnesses your own body’s natural energy resource – glucose and converts it into usable electrical energy. The GlucoCell ™ has the potential to provide self-sustaining device operation at a fraction of the cost and at 1/100th the size of competing battery technologies. The company’s mission is to...

LuxDx, Inc.

Brief Description

A mobile molecular diagnostics system that leverages efficient and dependable blood sampling, automated sample preparation, rapid optical detection of multi-analyte nucleic acids and proteins, and user-friendly systems integration with wireless communication. The system includes a hand-held automated device with an adaptive sample control module, an optical signal transductio n module, and an interface to a smartphone

Timeline 2015. Company founded Inventors

Byungrae Cho, Luke Lee, Sang Hun Lee, Jun Ho Son

Kynikos Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

Producing pre-lithiated graphite from recycled lithium-ion batteries. The company was born out of technology invented by researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Timeline 2016. Company founded Inventors

Abraham Anapolsky, Gao Liu, Andrew Minor, Julian Sabisch

KaRNAteq, Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

KaRNATeq develops tools for RNA sequencing that are the next step forward in genomics. The enzymes developed by the company enable doctors and scientists to capture more information at reduced cost.

INVENTOR

Kathleen Collins

FuelFX, Inc.

Brief Description

FuelFX is a multimedia studio which produces an array of bespoke solutions from websites, mobile applications, and 3D animations to interactive training, augmented reality, and virtual reality.

Timeline

2007. Company founded

Inventors

Jennifer Edwards, Daniel Kammen, Timothy Lipman

Excellin Life Sciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Bionic chip technology that merges a living biological cell with electronic circuitry. This chip-based instrument allows for verification of transfection, enabling downstream assays and in situ detection of results, for use in basic research on cell death and drug toxicity.

Formerly known as Bioelectronic Micro Systems, Inc.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. Inventors

Yong Huang, Boris Rubinsky

EscharaX Medical, Inc.

Brief Description

Tissue engineering to develop biometric materials for replacement arteries, nerve grafts, and healing wounds.

Timeline 2007. Company founded Inventors

Craig Hashi, Ngan Fong Huang, Kyle Kurpinski, Song Li, Shyam Patel

Acacia Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Acacia Biosciences, Inc. was a drug discovery technology company committed to the creation of proprietary assay systems and databases that facilitate the rapid development of biopharmaceutical s and agricultural chemicals. The Genome Reporter Matrix is the first in a series of novel tools that provide practical analysis of early stage chemicals by interpreting their effects across entire genomes. In addition to the GRM, Acacia's technology is used to discover novel targets and gene regulatory mechanisms.

Acacia Biosciences merged with Rosetta Inpharmatics in 1999...

A/F Protein Inc.

Brief Description

A/F Protein Inc. is the world's only commercial producer of antifreeze proteins purified from natural sources for sale to the research and development community. The company was spun out of discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Boris Rubinsky, an expert in the field of ice physics. Dr. Rubinsky reported on the ability of antifreeze proteins and glycoproteins to interact with mammalian cell membranes at hypothermic temperatures and protect such cells from depolarization and death. This important finding has led to...