IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

RM2

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Wound treatment.

INVENTOR

Mary Phillips, Paul Mikus, and Boris Rubinsky

RHA Technology, Inc.

Brief Description

The company was founded to develop sustainable, eco-friendly concrete composed of rice hull ash (RHA). RHA Technology, Inc. was born out of technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Povindar Kumar Mehta, who invented techniques for energy saving and waste material utilization in the manufacture of cement. Dr. Mehta was a world expert in the development of "green concrete."

Inventor

Povindar Kumar Mehta

Receptron, Inc.

Brief Description

Receptron, Inc. was founded to develop hormone receptor technology that modulates the endogenous thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor, a human hormone that stimulates patelet production.

Timeline 1987. Company founded Inventors

Andrea Goldsmith, Robert Goodenow, Lennart Olsson

Preference Metrics, LLC

Brief Description

The company's proprietary numerical method, called a principal component analysis, delivered computer-based recommendations of selective information based on an individual's personal preferences such as books, invoices, stocks, or toys. Preference Metrics, LLC was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg, based on his filtering algorithm, named Eigentaste, that uses universal queries to elicit real-valued user ratings on a common set of items, and applies principal component analysis (PCA) to the resulting dense subset of the ratings matrix.

Timeline 1999...

Narra Biosciences, LLC

Brief Description

Narra Biosciences develops anti-cancer therapeutics based on anti-cancer properties of the soybean protein Lunasin (from the Tagalog word "lunas" for cure. The technology can be used to identify potential drug targets and diagnostic biomarkers, and also as a research tool for understanding epigenetic control of gene expression during cancer development. The company was founded by UC Berkeley Nutritional Science and Toxicology Professor Ben de Lumen based on research discoveries in his lab.

Timeline 2015. Company founded Inventors

Benito de Lumen,...

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

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