IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Indoor Reality, Inc

Brief Description

Indoor Reality's visual and metric documentation of the indoors creates technological bridges between the physical and digital worlds. The company's patented hardware and software platform automates 3D-tagging of objects, and dimension measurements, making it possible for property owners, facility managers, and others to provide real time, 3D tours of facilities. Applications include architecture, engineering, and construction, energy audits, facilities management, commercial real estate, first respondents, and real time occupancy tracking.

The company was founded...

Inapill

Brief Description

Inapill is developing novel therapeutics that tune immune cell metabolism (immunometabolism) to treat diseases caused by immune system overactivation and excessive inflammation.

The company was co-founded by Greg Timblin and Josh Farahzad. CEO Timblin earned his Ph.D. in Molecular & Cell Biology from UC Berkeley in 2014, in the labs of Professors Mark Schlissel and Robert Tjian. He also served as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Kaoru Saijo’s lab at UC Berkeley, and then in Professor Val Weaver’s lab at UCSF.

Inventors

Kaoru Saijo, Greg Timblin...

Imprint Energy, Inc.

Brief Description

Imprint Energy aims to reshape the battery landscape. Currently available battery technologies limit the pace of improvement in design and functionality of portable electronic devices. Imprint Energy will address these shortcomings with its breakthrough zinc-based rechargeable battery technology, ZincPolyª. ZincPolyª battery technology removes longstanding limitations on the rechargeability of zinc-based batteries and enables the production of ultrathin, flexible, high energy density rechargeable batteries for significantly lower cost and without the design limitations or...

iMEDD, Inc.

Brief Description

Drug delivery based on micro-engineering technology utilizing silicon microcapsules with nanofilters so that treatments can be controlled and targeted to particular cells and sites in the body.

The company licensed intellectual property that had been previously licensed to UC Berkeley spinout Iris Micromedical. The IP was developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Engineering Mauro Ferrari, who moved to Ohio State University in 1999 as a professor of bioengineering, internal medicine, and mechanical engineering. In conjunction with Dr....

Iaterion

Brief Description

Iaterion is a biopharma company developing novel therapeutics for women's health and diseases. The company develops targeted selective nuclear receptor drugs addressing multiple indications encountered by women and focuses on novel drugs as an alternative to menopausal hormone therapy (MHT). The company was founded to commercialize a novel discovery made by UC Berkeley Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences Dale Leitman, MD, PhD, for nuclear receptors reprogramming (NRRP) agents.

Iaterion's team brings decades of experience in the bio-...

HypO2Regen Therapeutics

Brief Description

HypO2Regen’s is developing novel, disease-modifying therapeutics for chronic intractable inflammatory diseases, including what would be the first cell-free stem cell treatment that induces true regeneration of tissue damaged by chronic inflammation. The company's first focus on improving the lives of more than 300 million people in the United States and Europe with moderate to severe periodontitis, up to 70% of whom are either undertreated or untreated.

Inventors

Phillip Messersmith, Jing Cheng, Ellen Heber-Katz

Timeline 2024. Company founded

Hybrid Wisdom Labs, Inc.

Brief Description

Hybrid Wisdom Labs patented and launched the “Collaborative Discovery Engine”, a scalable way for companies to rapidly generate realtime insight from their customers and employees.

Acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2012.

Inventors

Ephrat Bitton, Siamak Faridani, Kenneth Yigael Goldberg, David Wong

Company Founders

Kenneth Goldberg

Timeline 2011. Company founded. 2012. Acquired by SurveyMonkey.

Huue

Brief Description

The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally damaging in the world.

Huue's mission is to spread our sustainable indigo dyeing strategy and revolutionize the denim supply chain.

Formerly known as Tinctorium.

Inventors

Arthur Fong, Bernardo Cervantes, John Dueber, Luke Latimer, Ramya Prathuri, Shyam Bhakta, Tammy Melody Hsu, Terry Johnson, Zachary Russ

Timeline 2019. Company founded.

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....

HFTA

Brief Description

Biomass remediation and energy generation through anaerobic digestion. HFTA's proprietary technology utilizes nitric acid rather than sulfuric or hydrochloric acid to hydrolyze cellulosic material for the production of ethanol and other fuels from biomass.

Inventors

David Brink

Timeline 1994. Company founded.