IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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...

Iris Micromedical, Inc.

Brief Description

Drug delivery based on microstructural devices that administer therapeutic agents to selected target sites for treatment.

Iris Micromedical was focused on the development of UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Engineering Mauro Ferrari's silicon particulate technology for the intravascular targeted treatment of cancer imedd.

Four years after founding Iris Micromedical, Dr. Ferrari moved to Ohio State University as a professor of bioengineering, internal medicine, and mechanical engineering, and reformed the company as IMedd, Inc.

Timeline 1995....

CalGen Therapeutics

Brief Description

Developer of a therapeutic inhaled antisense technology designed to prevent and treat respiratory infections.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Kasper Karstensen, Sakari Kauppinen, Anders Michael Naar, Chi Zhu

Biotock

Brief Description

Development of treatments for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Timeline 2022. Company founded Inventors

Monika Maria Haoui, Polina Lishko

BioScale, Inc.

Brief Description

BioScale developed diagnostic solutions that address critical unmet needs in population health and chronic care. An area of focus has been vulnerable populations such as those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The company's algorithms utilized combinations of blood-based biomarkers for identifying individuals at high risk for severe outcomes. BioScale's rigorous approach to test development included collaborating with leading academic medical centers and validating assays in large, carefully curated cohorts.

Bioscale...

Apertor Pharmaceuticals

Brief Description

Apertor creates novel molecular glues for therapeutic applications in multiple disease areas. The company applies a world-class synthetic biology platform using non-model organisms, a deep knowledge of complex natural products relevant to human health, and a computational pipeline enabled by structure-guided design. The result is a first-in-class approach to solving important pharmacological problems and delivering new, high-value treatment options for patients. The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and of...

Alien Technology

Brief Description

Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry pioneer and leading provider of high-quality RFID innovations, technologies, and products. The company has offices in the US, China, Korea, Europe, Brazil, Australia and other parts of Asia, supplying customers worldwid with UHF passive EPCglobal Gen2 and ISO/IEC 18000-6c compliant RFID transceiver chips transceiver chips, tags, inlays and labels, fixed and mobile readers, and related professional services for item tagging, retail/apparel, transportation, life sciences, and many...

Ekso Bionics

Brief Description

Since 2005, Ekso Bionics has used exoskeleton technology to enhance natural abilities and improve quality of life. The exoskeleton industry leader, offering technologies that help those with paralysis to stand up and walk, enhancing worker capabilities globally, and providing research for the advancement of R&D projects intended to benefit U.S. defense capabilities.

Formerly known as Berkeley Bionics and Berkeley Exotech.

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2014. The company acquired PN Med Group Inc. through a reverse merger,...

Cerebrotech Medical Systems Inc.

Brief Description

Cerebrotech Medical Systems is an innovative medical device company focused on the development of portable neurotechnology solutions. The Cerebrotech Visor, is a non-invasive wireless neurological device intended for use as an aid in the assessment of fluid volume differences (asymmetry) between the cerebral hemispheres in patients undergoing neurologic assessment.

Timeline 2010. Company founded Inventors

Cesar Gonzalez, Yair Granot, Antonii Ivorra, Arie Meir, Boris Rubinsky