IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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.

Grafty, Inc.

Brief Description

Grafty is a Berkeley-originated computer vision startup bringing face detection, tracking, recognition and biometrics solution to mobile platforms to bolster consumer, healthcare, and security industries. Built on extensive experience, Grafty plan to democratize computer vision and make it more accessible by inventing a state-of-the-art computer vision platform that is super simple to use for research and can operate at scale in real-time industrial applications.

Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Allen Yang, Andrew Wagner, John Wright, Roozbeh Jafari, Sosale Sastry, Yi Ma...

GoodGuide, Inc.

Brief Description

GoodGuide is a comprehensive, authoritative resource for information about the health, environmental, and social performance of consumer products and companies. GooGuide's goal is to help consumers make informed purchasing decisions that reflect their preferences and values. As more consumers buy better products, retailers and manufacturers face compelling incentives to make products that are safe, environmentally sustainable and produced using ethical sourcing of raw materials and labor. The company was founded by inventor Dara O'Rourke, a UC Berkeley Associate Professor...

Sonera Magnetics

Brief Description

Magnetometers are nearly ubiquitous in today’s world, fueling applications as diverse as medical diagnostics and self-driving cars. The most sensitive magnetometers, however, can only operate at extreme temperatures and in a shielded environment that isolates the sensor from ambient magnetic fields. Sonera Magnetics is developing a magnetometer that can operate at room temperature and in portable form factors with sensitivity comparable to the best magnetic sensors available today, dramatically increasing potential applications.

Co-founders Dominic Labanowski and...

Fixation Bio

Brief Description

Fixation Bio is on a mission to shape the future of agriculture by optimizing photosynthesis to improve plants’ ability to assimilate CO2 and adapt to future atmospheric conditions.

Inventors

David Frank Savage, Noam Prywes, Abraham Isser Flamholz

Company Founders

Noam Prywes (UC Berkeley postdoc), Jake Wintermute

Timeline 2025. Company founded

GigaCrop

Brief Description

Manufacturer of bio-derived hydrogen peroxide using synthetic biology intended to make photosynthesis better. The company engineers enzymes that are used instead of traditional chemical catalysts to remove organic solvents during the production of hydrogen peroxide, allowing the process to occur in any environment while reducing carbon emissions.

GigaCrop Founder and CEO Dr. Christopher Eiben earned his PhD in bioengineering at UC Berkeley, focusing on synthetic metabolism and protein engineering in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Jay Keasling, a pioneer in...

Global Newborn Solutions, Inc.

Brief Description

Global Newborn Solutions (GNS) develops medical innovations to address the most vital components of neonatal health and survival in resource-limited settings.

​GNS has commercialized an infant warming device called the Dream Warmer, which was invented by UC Berkeley and LBNL researchers to save the lives of infants suffering from hypothermia in low income countries, where premature and low-birth weight infants are particularly at risk. The wrap-around pad keeps infants warm. It contains a phase-change material, which is a substance that can absorb and release large...

GenoptX, LLC

Brief Description

A CRISPR-based gene editing company.

Formerly known as Syncodi.

Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Abraham Isser Flamholz, Dana Nadler, Benjamin Oakes, David Frank Savage

Timeline 2019. Company founded.

Genocea Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Genocea finds targets of T cell responses to discover and develop life-changing medicines. The company created a pipeline of novel vaccine and immunotherapy programs that stimulate the T cell arm of the immune system, which is increasingly recognized as critical to generating protective immune responses against a wide array of diseases. Genocea designs its medicines using ATLASª, a proprietary technology platform. Genocea's platform has the potential to revolutionize vaccines and immunotherapies for a range of infectious diseases, cancers and autoimmune diseases. The...