IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Persistent Efficiency

Brief Description

Persistent Efficiency was founded with the goal of providing cost-effective, sustainable energy-monitoring solutions.

Timeline 2014. Company founded Inventors

Jeremy Coyle, Igor Paprotny, Jason Trager, Richard White, Qiliang Xu

Peregrine Biotechnology

Brief Description

Production of foie gras without force feeding.

Timeline 2017. Company founded Inventors

Jacob Corn, Benjamin Gregor Gowen

Omniox, Inc.

Brief Description

Omniox is an early stage biopharmaceutical company developing new medicines for hypoxic diseases. Hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) impacts cancer, cardiovascular diseases, trauma and many other conditions. The company has engineered an unusually stable oxygen carrier technology (H-NOX) to deliver oxygen into hypoxic tissues and improve the treatment of severe unmet medical needs. The technology overcomes the modes of failure of prior efforts in the field of oxygen therapeutics.

Timeline 2006. Company founded. Inventors

Elizabeth Boon,...

Nodexus, Inc.

Brief Description

Nodexus is commercializing an integrated, “one-click” platform that is low-cost, compact, and provides a simplified workflow to deliver enriched single cells of interest from a wide variety of samples such as stem cells, transfected cell lines, cultured cell lines, dissociated tissue, and whole blood.

Timeline 2014. Company founded. Inventors

Lydia Sohn, Daniel Yang, George Anwar, James Hack, Karthik Balakrishnan, Matthew Chambers, Matthew Chapman

Magnetic Tides

Brief Description

Magnetic Tides has developed a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) system capable of modulating brain function more reliably and effectively than previously existing NIBS methods.

NIBS is used as a research tool to safely, transiently alter the excitability state of targeted neurons when testing causal hypotheses about brain-behavior relationships. In addition, clinicians have recognized the potential of NIBS as a new intervention in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

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Mammoth Biosciences

Brief Description

Mammoth’s vision is to provide a CRISPR-based platform on which an infinite number of tests can be built by both ourselves and our partners - democratizing access to an endless variety of tests for bio sensing in healthcare, as well as across industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, forensics, and more.

Timeline 2017. Company founded Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Alexandra Seletsky, Amanda Mok, Brittney Wai-Li Thornton, David Frank Savage, Dylan Smock, Eli Dugan, Emeric Jean Charles, Gavin Knott, James Doudna Cate, John Desmarais, Liana Lareau,...

Marco Medical

Brief Description

Prevention and treatment of Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness that affects around 80 million people worldwide.

Timeline 2023. Company founded Inventor

Lu Chen

Menlo Security

Brief Description

Menlo Security is eliminating the threat of advanced malware by introducing a new cyber security model. The company's software protects against threats and attacks that bypass many advanced security products by mirroring content from a remote browser in the cloud to the desktop, enabling clients to surf safely and securely, with a proprietary Adaptive Clientless Rendering (ACR) technology. The ACR technology was born out of research in the lab of cyber security and privacy expert Dawn Song, a UC Berkeley Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...

Mend Neuroscience, Inc.

Brief Description

Mend Neuroscience, Inc. is a therapeutics company treating cognitive disorders.

Timeline 2020. Company founded Inventors

Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman, Luisa Cacheaux

Mendel Biological Solutions

Brief Description

Mendel Biological Solutions creates new technologies to satisfy the evolving needs of the agricultural industry. The biological research and development team is focused on biological crop solutions that increase crop yield through naturally-derived products. Mendel Biological Solutions is committed to providing the innovations that will help sustain crops around the world.

Mendel Biological Solutions was acquired by Koch Agronomic Services in 2014.

Timeline 1997. Company founded 2014. Company acquired by Koch Agronimic Services...