IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Izote Biosciences

Brief Description

Producing bioplastics through aerobic microbial processes.

Inventors

John Coates

Timeline 2022. Company founded

Intropic Materials

Brief Description

Intropic Materials is developing truly compostable plastic and other self-degrading products that can be composted or perfectly recycled. The company combines the performance of proteins with a patented stabilization technology to build better materials that address the world's plastic waste problem.

Enzymes are nature’s chemists. They handle the reactions that let life happen, can be engineered for our purposes, and can even break down plastics! However they tend to struggle outside of their comfort zone, the cell. This limits our ability to use them in...

Innovative Guidance Technologies

Brief Description

Automated vehicle control utilizing an intelligent roadway reference system for vehicle lateral guidance and control.

Inventors

Robert E. Parsons, Wei-Bin Zhang

Timeline 2003. Company founded.

IntegenX

Brief Description

IntegenX is the market leader of Rapid DNA technology for human identification in forensics and law enforcement applications. IntegenX’s RapidHIT technologies integrate advanced fluidics, optics, and biochemistry capabilities to produce sample-to-answer solutions for DNA-based human identity testing. The RapidHIT ID System for Crime Labs generates lab-...

Inktomi Corporation

Brief Description

Inktomi's core technology was born out of US DARPA funded research on massively paralleled systems. The company's original focus was on large scale Internet search, providing private-labeled search services to some of the world's best known search engines including Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, and others. Inktomi later introduced high-end network cacheing software, sold primarily to telecom and internet service providers, to dramatically improve the performance of web-based network traffic.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Eric...

InkSpace Imaging, Inc.

Brief Description

InkSpace Imaging makes comfortable, patient-customized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) surface receive coils, that help MRI operators decrease their costs while increasing patient comfort and the speed of exams.

UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professors Ana Claudia Arias and Michael (Miki) Shimon Lustig, and UC Berkeley PhD student Joseph Corea, founded the company to commercialize their invention of thin-film, lightweight MRI sensors that can be embedded in swaddles that fits snugly on little patients, making MRI procedures easier and...

Infinite Uptime, Inc.

Brief Description

Infinite Uptime is the Industrial Internet Platform that directly benefits manufacturers by solving key manufacturing problems. It has manufacturers across the globe that are using its platform to reduce machine downtime, increase machine productivity and predict machine maintenance. Its platform also helps machine operators improve safety, reduce operator training time, and make more informed decisions while operating their machines.

Inventors

Raunak Bhinge, Yung Chih Chen, Jinsu Choi, Jennifer Dai, David Dornfeld, Rhett Gentile, Wojciech Musial

Company...

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...

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....