IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Microgrid Labs

Brief Description

Microgrid Labs Inc (MGL) is a consulting and software company specializing in microgrids and electrification of transportation.

The company's consulting arm follows a simple and practical approach to planning microgrids and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The company helps clients assess needs, analyze the state of operations, model future operating scenarios, and design the most economical solutions.

Complementing the consulting practice, the company also offers software platforms for modeling, simulation, and optimization of EV charging...

Microbial Medical

Brief Description

Microbial Medical was established to launch novel imaging agents and drugs for diagnosing and treating bacterial and fungal infections, based on a platform technology for chemically linking existing medical compounds with sugars that pathogens consume and human cells reject. The launch products were contrast agents that enable common medical scanners to image infection. The company also planned to produce antibiotics that address antibiotic resistance and have reduced toxicity.

Inventors

Kiyoko Takemiya, Mark Goodman, Niren Murthy, Rafi Mohammad, Robert Taylor,...

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...

Mercator MedSystems Inc.

Brief Description

Mercator MedSystems, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on the treatment of peripheral artery disease utilizing its catheter-guided, microfluid infusion systems for site-specific, non-systemic delivery of therapeutic agents directly across any blood vessel. The Company's technology also enables the commercialization of novel therapeutics for other vascular diseases, hypertension, oncology, and regenerative medicine. The Company's Cricketª and Bullfrog Micro-Infusion Catheters are the first vascular-access systems able to infuse drugs, genes, and cells...

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...

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.

Inventors

Karen Century, Douglas Dahlbeck, Peter Repetti, Allan Shapiro, Brian Staskawicz

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Mend Neuroscience, Inc.

Brief Description

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

Inventors

Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman, Luisa Cacheauz

Timeline 2020. Company founded

MediFuel Inc.

Brief Description

MediFuel is the first tiny, Biological Fuel Cell (BFC) Company solving the power problem of the next generation of implantable medical devices – a market which is projected to reach over a billion dollars. The company's technology is a GlucoCell ™ , a MEMS based power chip that harnesses your own body’s natural energy resource – glucose and converts it into usable electrical energy. The GlucoCell ™ has the potential to provide self-sustaining device operation at a fraction of the cost and at 1/100th the size of competing battery technologies. The company’s mission is to...

Marco Medical

Brief Description

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

Inventors

Lu Chen

Timeline 2023. Company founded

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.

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, Mariya Lukarska, Mitchell O'Connell, Nicholas...