IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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.

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...