IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

InkSpace Imaging, Inc.

Brief Description

InkSpace Imaging makes comfortable, patient-customized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) surface receive coils, that help MRI operators decrease their costs while increasing patient comfort and the speed of exams.

UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professors Ana Claudia Arias and Michael (Miki) Shimon Lustig, and UC Berkeley PhD student Joseph Corea, founded the company to commercialize their invention of thin-film, lightweight MRI sensors that can be embedded in swaddles that fits snugly on little patients, making MRI procedures easier and...

20/20 Display Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

20/20 Display Technologies solution allows people to view their devices without having to wear glasses, contacts, or receive extensive surgeries. This technology helps read emails, view videos or search the web, seeing the images in sharp focus without wearing corrective eyewear.

Timeline 2015. Company founded. Inventors

Brian Barsky, Fu-Chung Huang, Ramesh Raskar, Gordon Wetzstein

Amber Bio

Brief Description

A biotechnology company offering genetic medicine through biologically inspired design. The company offers gene editing modalities using multi-kilobase RNA writing to easily reach previously undruggable diseases, enabling medical researchers to easily develop independent therapies for each separate mutation in the patient population.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventor

Jennifer Doudna

Isoreticular Sciences

Brief Description

The design and synthesis of novel isoreticular materials.

Timeline 2020. Company founded. Inventors

Nikita Hanikel, Steven James Lyle, Hao Lyu, Lac Ha Nguyen, Wentao Xu, Omar Yaghi, Bing Zhang

HFTA

Brief Description

Biomass remediation and energy generation through anaerobic digestion. HFTA's proprietary technology utilizes nitric acid rather than sulfuric or hydrochloric acid to hydrolyze cellulosic material for the production of ethanol and other fuels from biomass.

Timeline 1994. Company founded. Inventors

David Brink

CyberPac

Brief Description

CyberPac was founded to commercialize an antioxidant nutritional supplement.

Timeline 1999. Company founded Inventors

Lester Packer, Sashwati Roy, Chandan Sen, Oren Tirosh

Isatis, LLC

Brief Description

SASSI software for analysis of soil-structure interaction.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Chih Cheng Chin, John Lysmer, Farhang Ostadan

Kaiwood Technologies

Brief Description

Functionally integrated microanalytical system for performing fluorescence spectroscopy via fluorescence-excition radiation, typically from an LED, integrated onto a substrate along with a photodetector an an optical filter.

Timeline 2003. Company founded Inventors

J. Alex Chediak, Nathan Cheung, Luke Lee, Zhongsheng Luo, Timothy Sands, Jeonggi Seo

Magan Materials

Brief Description

Magan Materials was founded based on revolutionary antioxidant materials discovered by UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Professor Alexander Katz’s research group.

Timeline 2022. Company founded. Inventors

James Charles Bohling, Juan Callejas, Alexander Katz, Manish Mishra, Antony Van Dyk

Mimesyn

Brief Description

Developing a novel class of molecules, aza-@-tides, that mimic the structural features of natural amino acids. These can be synthesized from amino acid precursors in either direction using standard peptide synthesis methods, facilitating the assembly of libraries incorporating all the amino acid building blocks.

Timeline 2004. Company founded Inventors

Paul Bartlett, Ming Chen Hammond, Stephen Olson, Scott Phillips, Miroslav Rezac