IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Myo Corps

Brief Description

Measuring muscle mass through analysis of creatinine in urine samples. The company's proprietary D3Creatine dilution method to measure muscle mass, termed the Muscle Assessment Test (MAT), is being used to assess muscle mass in several NIH sponsored cohort studies including the Framingham Heart Study, Women's Health Inititiative, Tobago Longitudinal Aging Study, the Study on Muscle, Mobility, and Aging (SOMMA), and more. The goal is to achieve FDA approval for the MAT as a diagnostic test for muscle mass.

MyoCorps CEO William J. Evans, PhD, is an...

OmniTact

Brief Description

OmniTact was founded to commercialize a robotic manipulation sensor designed by researchers at UC Berkeley. The sensor uses micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations of a gel-based skin. It is designed to be used as a fingertip for robotic manipulation with robotic hands, and uses multiple micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations. This provides a rich signal from which a variety of different contact state variables can be inferred using modern image processing and computer vision methods.

Timeline 2020. Company founded...

nEye Systems

Brief Description nEye Systems is a next-generation optical switch company. Their programmable photonic integrated circuit integrates high-radix optical circuit switching on a Si chip and is a future-proof solution for Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) systems and other high-performance computing environments. Their optical switches are poised to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the growth and adoption of AI/ML – the excessive costs of power requirements and network expansion. Timeline 2020. Company founded. Inventors

Sangyoon Han,...

Target Analytics

Brief Description

Statistical consulting services and software developer for translating causal interference methodology.

Timeline 2007. Company founded Inventor

Mark van der Laan

SmartSense Energy

Brief Description

SmartSense Energy developed sensors that predict faults in underground electric utility cables, enabling repair of cables before faults occur. The company received California Energy Commission's Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) to spin out technology from UC Berkeley research into a company. Founder and CEO Ryan Hanley, Haas MBA 2011, and his team accelerated the commercialization of the technology in the UC Berkeley Cleantech to Market course, and the team won the Cleantech to Open Business Plan Competition in 2010.

Timeline 2010. Company...

TerraForma Technologies

Brief Description

TerraForma Technologies develops advanced water and environmental technologies focused on tackling drought and desertification. The company uses dynamic models and technologies to combine a range of innovative agricultural, forestry and water resourcing techniques to convert desert landscapes into highly productive arable land. It also builds electrically conductive membrane technologies for the treatment of wastewater, brackish water and highly saline brines and developed a suite of desalination modules resistant to organic fouling and scaling.

Timeline 2015...

TL Revolution, LLC

Brief Description

TL Revolution delivers the next generation of data analysis tools with superior precision, reliability, and ease of use to pharma, FDA, and beyond. Data analysis drives mission-critical decisions, but hasn’t kept up with proven advances in statistics. Biased and imprecise analyses lead to wrong conclusions and significant loss of time and money. The company's software encapsulates expertise in super learning and TMLE to proved state-of-the-art machine learning and robust causal inference.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor in Biostatistics and...

Viasense, Inc.

Brief Description

ViaSense, Inc. developed software for image and video processing based on the biology of human vision. ViaSense IPeG software compressed still and video images two to four times better than any other available technology while preserving the same quality. The company's image-processing principles were further developed for transmitting DVD-quality video through the internet, adapting automatically to the bandwidth available. The ViaSense perceptual processing tool kit is still being used today in professional pay TV encoders.

The startup was spun out of...

Azalea Therapeutics, Inc.

Brief Description

Azalea Therapeutics is an early-stage biotech startup on a mission to revolutionize genomic medicines. By designing vehicles that enable cell-specific delivery inside the body, the company aims to unlock precision therapeutics for genetic diseases and unleash the promise of cellular-based therapies. The company's co-founders include Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and UC Berkeley Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, with Postdocs and a PhD student from her lab: CEO/CSO Jennifer Hamilton (PhD, 2018-2023); Founding Scientist Connor...

Cognitive Wearable Technologies

Brief Description

Cognitive Wearable Technologies developed a minimally obtrusive wearable system that can assess cognitive performance continuously throughout normal life activities by excitation of the peripheral nervous system and detection of the central nervous system response. The innovative cognitive assessment technology monitors the cognitive state of the wearer continuously throughout the day. The invention was developed in the lab of Boris Rubinsky, UC Berkeley Professor of the Graduate School at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering. The...