IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Lumiphore, Inc.

Brief Description

Lumiphore develops proprietary bi-functional chelators for biomedical applications in drug discovery research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. These include biological detection systems based on luminescent lanthanide complexes (which provide a unique combination of sensitivity, reliability, flexibility and high throughput) and radioisotope chelators for attachment to carrier molecules used in cancer therapeutics and radio-imaging diagnostics that can be paired as a companion diagnostics in radio-pharmaceutical therapeutics.

Timeline 2001. Company...

Correlia Biosystems, Inc.

Brief Description

Correlia Biosystems develops streamlined assay platforms to reduce the time and cost for quantifying proteins for proteomic and pharmaceutical applications. Our research instruments provide multiplexing capabilities for large protein panels including cytokines and post-translational modifications with unparalleled speed and automation. The company is dedicated to reducing the cost and time to market for candidate drug compounds, and facilitating the access of researchers to large panel protein studies. The company's biomeasurement technology serves the world's top 20...

Cooler, Inc.

Brief Description

Cooler is a for-profit social venture that connects every purchase to a solution for global warming. It does this by enabling businesses and people to eliminate the global warming impact of their everyday purchases and activities.

Timeline 2007. Company founded Inventors

Christopher Jones, Daniel Kammen

Colusa Software

Brief Description

Colusa commercialized software for developers to produce memory-protected high-performance internet components in popular programming languages. The company provided a cross-language virtual machine that provided secure execution within systems such as databases and operating systems.

Microsoft Corporation acquired Colusa Software Inc. in 1996. Co-inventor, co-founder, and CEO Robert Wahbe became an executive at Microsoft after Colusa's acquisition.

Timeline 1993. Company founded 1996. Acquired by Microsoft...

CellASIC Corp.

Brief Description

CellASIC¨ ONIX Microfluidic Platform delivers precise control for live cell analysis experiments by facilitating long-term perfusion cell culture. Cutting-edge microfluidics technology provides an improved cell culture microenvironment, exceptional quality for high magnification microscopy, and superior media switching capabilities.

The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering Luke Lee and his graduate students Paul Hung and Philip Lee.

Timeline 2004. Company founded 2012...

Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Catalyst is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging exceptional science to discover and develop essential medicines. Catalyst is focused on creating and commercializing novel medicines to address serious medical conditions for patients who need new or better treatment options.

Timeline 2002. Company founded 2015. Company merged, acquiring Targacept through a reverse merger, resulting in the combined entity trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CBIO 2023. Merges with, and...

CaseForge, Inc.

Brief Description

CaseForge produces personalized stabilizers for use in research and clinical imaging. These stabilizers interface with medical devices to precisely position the patient and eliminate motion, guaranteeing comfortable, fast, simple placement consistency across treatments.

The company was founded by graduate students in the lab of Dr. Jack Gallant, a professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology, and an affiliate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and programs in Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Biophysics and Vision...

Calyx

Brief Description

Calyx is a materials science company that harnesses biology to provide low cost and highly accurate sensors for real-time detection and analysis of air chemicals in a variety of industries, including safety, healthcare, transportation, and food. The company offers commercial customers phage-based sensing and analysis of multiple gasses.

Company co-founders Ray Chiu and Benson Fan developed the company’s founding technology as a capstone project while they were students in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Masters in Bioengineering program. With the encouragement of UC Berkeley...

California Wave Power Tech

Brief Description

CalWave Power Technologies Inc. provides a solution to harness the renewable power of ocean waves to produce electricity and freshwater. CalWave’s patented Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is moored offshore, simple and scalable. WEC operates submerged, allowing it to survive stormy seas while causing no visual pollution or posing any collision danger.

CalWave co-founder and CEO Marcus Lehmann co-invented the company's foundational technology during his time as a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Marcus was inspired...

Wasatch Collaboratory

Brief Description

The Wasatch Collaboratory is an unbiased and neutral technology-based business development consultancy focused on helping proactive government laboratories, research universities, and private sector clients expand rapidly into new areas of R&D, product development, and technology commercialization.

Timeline 2015. Wasatch Collaboratory founded Inventors

Michael Andersen, Edward Arens, Wilmer Pasut, Hui Zhang