IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

MZR Neurotech

Brief Description

MZR Neurotech has developed an in-ear electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor packed with biosensors that detect brain activity. The discreet, comfortable brain-machine interface is being developed for monitoring and diagnosing sleep disorders.

Inventors

Ryan Kaveh, Arya Reais-Parsi, Rikky Muller, Saavan Patel

Company Founders

Ryan Kaveh (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy), Arya Reais-Parsi, Rikky Muller (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy), Saavan Patel (UC Berkeley, B.A., Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering...

Moment Bio

Brief Description

Developing curative therapies through versatile RNA targeting

Inventors

Patrick David Hsu

Timeline 2022. Company founded

mFluiDx

Brief Description

mFluiDx is aiming to develop the world’s lowest cost, automated point-of-care DNA diagnostic assay for small clinics. In small clinics, such as primary care out-patient clinics, disease diagnosis is typically done by observing symptoms or using paper-strip antibody tests. However, these methods have poor sensitivity compared to DNA diagnostics. Highly sensitive molecular DNA tests (PCR) are not often used because of cost and the need to send tests off-site resulting in a slow turnaround time (several days).

mFluiDx is a UC Berkeley startup developing Gates...

Humen, Inc.

Brief Description

Humen, Inc. is a platform for personalized interactive content creation using artificial intelligence. The AI platform permits transferring movements and skills through video, enabling users to share video content. Its popular iOS app, Sway: Magic Dance, uses state of the art AI modelling to generate video. The fun-to-use app generates videos of users based on a source video uploaded by the user doing basic motions, like moving around, kicking their legs or waving their arms. Its PyTorch-backed proprietary GAN Neural Network model creates a digital skeleton of the user....

Fortiphyte

Brief Description

Working with nature to create a greener future.

Provider of agricultural protection products that protect crops from disease and reduce fungicide use. The company helps identify natural disease resistance traits to accelerate the development of disease-resistant crop varieties.

Protecting plants from disease improves the yield, quality, and reliability of harvests to benefit growers and consumers.

Reducing agricultural chemicals in agriculture results in: less residue in food, reduced exposure for farm workers and nearby communities, less runoff into...

Iota Biosciences

Brief Description

Established in 2017, iota Biosciences was formed with a vision to change how the world monitors and treats disease. Building on award-winning 'neural dust' technology invented at the University of California, Berkeley, Iota Biosciences is building a platform for the future of bioelectronic medicine.

Inventors

Michel Maharbiz, Jose Carmena

Company Founders

Aaron Hall (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Materials Science & Engineering), Ilan Gur (UC Berkeley, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Materials Science & Engineering...

Zenith Therapeutics

Brief Description

Zenith Therapeutics is redefining drug discovery through a new approach to protein degradation, making hard-to-drug targets of high therapeutic value accessible to drug discovery.

Inventors

Julia Sabine Schaletzky, Michael Rape, Edward Eric Wehri, Andrew G. Manford, Srivdya Chandrasekhar, Daniel K. Nomura, Nathaniel J. Henning

Timeline 2022. Company founded

CryoVox Technologies

Brief Description

Crovox Technologies is developing new tools for the mass manufacturing of 3D cell cultures.

Inventors

Boris Rubinsky, Michal Adamkievicz, Ze'ev Shaked

Timeline 2024. Company founded

Cerebrotech Medical Systems Inc.

Brief Description

Cerebrotech Medical Systems is an innovative medical device company focused on the development of portable neurotechnology solutions. The Cerebrotech Visor, is a non-invasive wireless neurological device intended for use as an aid in the assessment of fluid volume differences (asymmetry) between the cerebral hemispheres in patients undergoing neurologic assessment.

Inventors

Cesar Gonzalez, Yair Granot, Antonii Ivorra, Arie Meir, Boris Rubinsky

Company Founders

Boris Rubinsky, Mitchell Levinson

Timeline 2010. Company founded

Singulex, Inc.

Brief Description

Singulex is an immunodiagnostics company at the forefront of Single Molecule Counting technology, a novel immunoassay technology recognized for unprecedented ultra sensitivity in the precision measurement of biomarkers. Singulex is the developer of the Singulex Clarity system, a fully automated, in vitro diagnostics platform powered by Single Molecule Counting technology. With up to 1,000 times more sensitivity than existing technologies, Single Molecule Counting reveals the presence or absence of disease more clearly and definitively than was possible before. The...