IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Kryptos Biotechnologies

Brief Description

Developer of molecular diagnostic software designed for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The company's platform develops a point-of-care, ultrafast photonic polymerase chain reaction that can create a fast photothermal heating plasmonic thin film by a light-emitting diode, enabling medical professionals to make the right clinical decision quickly at a reasonable cost.

Dr. Jun Ho Sun co-founded Kryptos Technologies to commercialize discoveries made as an Assistant Project Scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley in the lab of Professor of...

Mosaic Materials

Brief Description

Mosaic Materials is dedicated to reducing the cost and environmental impact of fossil fuels through the application of proprietary, highly efficient gas separation technologies. The company utilizes porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks to selectively remove impurities such as CO2 from gas mixtures in an array of applications from submarines to power plants.

The company was acquired by Baker Hughes (NAS: BKR) in 2022.

Timeline 2014. Company founded 2022. Mosaic Materials was acquired by Baker Hughes (NAS: BKR)...

Magnetic Insight

Brief Description

Magnetic Insight is developing solutions in Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), a ground-breaking technology that will overcome major deficiencies with current clinical and translational research imaging techniques.

Magnetic Insight Inc. was founded by one of the leading research groups in the global field of Magnetic Particle Imaging from UC Berkeley. Developed over the past decade in the research lab of UC Berkeley Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Steven Conolly, MPI has proven in animal studies to generate high-contrast...

Catena Biosciences

Brief Description

Cantena Biosciences uncovered a novel protein conjugation method that can bring breakthroughs in biological therapeutics, autoimmune disorders, and vaccine development.

Catena’s technology allows the attachment of any two proteins together faster and more selectively than any competing method by attaching the natural amino acids tyrosine and cysteine. Since the company's platform uses only naturally occurring amino acids, it is more widely applicable than competing technologies and can be used to create complicated constructs far beyond...

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...

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

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

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