IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Luminus Devices, Inc.

Brief Description

For almost two decades, Luminus has worked with the community of light to solve its most challenging problems. For much of its first decade Luminus focused on improving energy efficiency, light output, the quality of light, and longevity, and developing new form factors to address the needs in many different application areas including architectural and urban, displays and projection, horticulture and illumination.

Having successfully addressed technology challenges, Luminus has been working with lighting designers to make sure that the company's LED technology can...

Lucira Health

Brief Description Lucira Health is revolutionizing the way infectious diseases are prevented, diagnosed, and monitored by developing the tools necessary to empower people to become knowledgeable about their health. We produce inexpensive, disposable health diagnostic hardware that transforms any smartphone into a portable, real-time health-monitoring device for rapid, accessible, multiplexed analysis of bodily fluids anywhere in the world.

Formerly known as Diassess, Inc.

Lucira Health had an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol of LHDX...

Lightstage LLC

Brief Description

Light Stage systems efficiently capture how an actor's face appears when lit from every possible lighting direction. From this captured imagery, specialized algorithms create realistic virtual renditions of the actor in the illumination of any location or set, faithfully reproducing the color, texture, shine, shading, and translucency of the actor's skin.

UC Berkeley, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers invented the Light Stage technology, led by Paul Debevec (Berkeley...

Leucadia Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

IRIS International acquired Leucadia Technologies for $10.1 million in 2006.

Inventors

Charles Cantor, Roy Chuck, Doris Tse

Timeline 1998. Company founded 2006. Acquired by IRIS International, Inc.

Libraria, Inc.

Brief Description

Libraria Inc. is using computational techniques to discover new small-molecule drugs that can be administered orally. Its proprietary technology enables the company and its partners to leverage known molecular structures, chemistry protocols, and bioactivity data to speed the chemistry phase of drug discovery by up to 50%.

Inventors Jonathan Ellman Timeline

2000. Company founded.

2003. Acquired by Eidogon-Sertanty.

Laguna Bio

Brief Description

Developer of drug discovery platform designed to selectively activate and expand the innate immune system against cancer. The company specializes in providing a specific type of T cell for the immune system to fight solid tumors by increasing the response rate of a bispecific antibody drug, enabling patients to survive a deadly disease like cancer.

Inventors

Daniel Portnoy, Thomas Patrick Burke, Juliana Durack, Jonathan Lewis Portman, Christopher Rae, Rafael Jose Rivera Lugo, Kimberly Makiko Sogi, Sarah Ann Stanley, Erik Skidmore Van Dis

Company Founders

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Kynikos Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

Producing pre-lithiated graphite from recycled lithium-ion batteries. The company was born out of technology invented by researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Inventors

Abraham Anapolsky, Gao Liu, Andrew Minor, Julian Sabisch

Timeline 2016. Company founded

Kuro Labs Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Kuro Labs measures more of the world than ever before, with instrumentation in mobile devices, laptops, desktops, datacenters, vehicles, and even our own bodies. Kuro Labs developed Normal, a battery diagnosis service that suggests personalized actions that can be taken to extend the battery life.

Inventors Eemil Lagerspetz, Adam Oliner, Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Sasu Tarkoma

Kryptos Biotechnologies

Brief Description

Developer of molecular diagnostic software designed for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The company's platform develops a point-of-care, ultrafast photonic polymerase chain reaction that can create a fast photothermal heating plasmonic thin film by a light-emitting diode, enabling medical professionals to make the right clinical decision quickly at a reasonable cost.

Dr. Jun Ho Sun co-founded Kryptos Technologies to commercialize discoveries made as an Assistant Project Scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley in the lab of Professor of...

Knit Health Technologies

Brief Description

Applying artificial intelligence to clinical decision making in healthcare.

Inventors

Jonas Raphael Knecht, Maya Petersen, Jonathan Kolstad

Timeline 2025. Company founded