IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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.

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

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...

KineMed Inc.

Brief Descriptiom

This field-leading biotech company worked with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to produce data on target engagement, toxicity and disease progression to accelerate drug development and reduce the overall costs and risks. The pathway-based drug discovery and development company was founded to identify active drug candidates preclinically and confirm their therapeutic activity. The company helped in expediting the drug development process and provided real-time insight into conditions including metabolic disorders, cancer, and diseases of inflammation and...

KaRNAteq, Inc.

Brief Description

KaRNATeq develops tools for RNA sequencing that are the next step forward in genomics. The enzymes developed by the company enable doctors and scientists to capture more information at reduced cost.

Inventors

Kathleen Collins, Heather Upton

Company Founders

Kathleen Collins, Robert Klein (UC Berkeley, BA, Biochemistry, ’86; Ph.D.)

Timeline 2019. Company founded

Kalinex, Inc.

Brief Description

Kalinex is developing technology that emulates the sense of smell, which is the only human/animal sense that has not yet been replicated in small devices and systems. The company's proprietary technology allows for the detection of molecules with extremely high sensitivity and selectivity. There is unaddressed need for such systems and a huge potential market in several industry verticals such as security (homeland defense), environmental monitoring, and petrochemicals.

Formerly known as Capil LLC.

Inventors

Jongeun Choi, Christopher Dames, Ram Datar, Daniel...

Juvenon, Inc.

Brief Description

UC Berkeley scientists founded Juvenon to make their healthy aging breakthrough available to the public. The company's patented combination of natural micronutrients promotes a healthier, more energetic body and protects tissue from the toxic oxidants that increase with normal daily stress-producing activities and exercise, as well as with the aging process. Juvenon has expanded to multiple products that enable consumers to maintain vigor and functionality as they age, empowering millions of individuals worldwide to live better longer, and age gracefully.

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Kaiwood Technologies

Brief Description

Functionally integrated microanalytical system for performing fluorescence spectroscopy via fluorescence-excition radiation, typically from an LED, integrated onto a substrate along with a photodetector an an optical filter.

Inventors

J. Alex Chediak, Nathan Cheung, Luke Lee, Zhongsheng Luo, Timothy Sands, Jeonggi Seo

Timeline 2003. Company founded

Juvena Therapeutics

Brief Description

Juvena Therapeutics is discovering novel protein-based therapeutics that promote tissue regeneration in the elderly and treat various age-related diseases. The company's AI-enabled discovery platform maps the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins, with the goal of accelerating the discovery of treatments that help individuals maintain and even improve their muscle mass and function, which is commonly affected by aging.

The company was born out of CEO and co-founder Hanadie Yousef's research as a PhD student at UC Berkeley, in the laboratories of Drs. David...