IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

EZNome, Inc.

Brief Description

EZNome commercializes high-throughput mammalian genome editing technologies utilizing CRISPR ribonucleoprotein (RNP) electroporation of zygotes (CRISPR-EZ).

Inventors

Sean Chen, Lin He, Yiu-Fai Lee

Timeline 2018. Company founded.

Excellin Life Sciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Bionic chip technology that merges a living biological cell with electronic circuitry. This chip-based instrument allows for verification of transfection, enabling downstream assays and in situ detection of results, for use in basic research on cell death and drug toxicity.

Formerly known as Bioelectronic Micro Systems, Inc.

Inventors

Yong Huang, Boris Rubinsky

Timeline 2000. Company founded.

Exelixis, Inc.

Brief Description

Exelixis, Inc. is a commercially successful, oncology-focused biotechnology company that strives to accelerate the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for difficult-to-treat cancers. Following early work in model genetic systems, the company established a broad drug discovery and development platform that has served as the foundation for its continued efforts to bring new cancer therapies to patients in need. The company developed CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib), COMETRIQ® (cabozantinib) and COTELLIC® (cobimetinib), and partnered with leading...

Evergreen Saponins

Brief Description

Evergreen Saponins is commercializing a sustainable, scalable production method for saponins, unlocking a new supply chain for an essential ingredient in processed food, bio-pesticides, medicines, vaccines, and more. Early in his career, company founder Dr. Ricardo San Martin developed techniques for harvesting saponins from the wood and bark of mature wild trees in Chile, fueling demand for the additive worldwide. Now the chemical engineer has invented a breakthrough method to extract commercial-grade saponins from the leaves of Chilean soapbark trees, Quillaja...

Evercrisp Biosciences

Brief Description

Evercrisp Biosciences is a biotechnology company engineering self-deliverable CRISPR genome editors intended to improve the area of oncology. The company focuses on the discovery and development of protein-based genome editors as therapeutics for multiple disease areas, enabling healthcare organizations to have novel enzymes with high cell permeability and editing efficiency.

Inventors

Jennifer Doudna

Company Founders

UC Berkeley Professor Jennifer Doudna (Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry), Tanja Kortemme, Spiros Liras

Timeline 2021...

Euclid Media

Brief Description

Founded by two graduate students around a digital brand graphics insertion technology for video advertising.

Euclid Media developed and built a platform that helped advertisers reach online audiences. The company specialized in professional and brand-safe content from the producers of Web shows. Its content network allowed sponsors to place embedded advertising and brand placements into online videos. The company offered a technology that enabled advertisers and content producers to roll out campaigns in various shows; and AdProps, which helped directors to...

EscharaX Medical, Inc.

Brief Description

Tissue engineering to develop biometric materials for replacement arteries, nerve grafts, and healing wounds.

Inventors

Craig Hashi, Ngan Fong Huang, Kyle Kurpinski, Song Li, Shyam Patel

Timeline 2007. Company founded

Epigenetic Gene Editing

Brief Description

Epigenetic Gene Editing is a gene editing tools company dedicated to improvements in CRISPR-Cas9 editing by providing a fusion protein kit to gene editing companies.

Formerly known as EPI-CRISPRx.

Inventors

Enrique Lin Shiao, Jennifer Doudna

Timeline 2021. Company founded

eNano Technologies

Brief Description

eNano Technologies is redefining what’s possible in the Internet of Things. The company has developed the world’s smallest smart tags, called nanoTags, which are 14 times smaller than Apple's AirTag, and powered by battery-free Bluetooth technology developed at UC Berkeley. Built to be simple, sustainable, and powerful, nanoTags are compatible with billions of devices, enabling people to stay effortlessly connected to the things that matter most.

Inventors

Kristofer Pister, Osama Khan, Bradley Wheeler, David Burnett

Timeline 2024. Company...

Ensighta Security, Inc.

Brief Description

Cybersecurity company founded by computer science professor Dawn Song.

Developer of a malware detection platform headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company offered software for the market-scale mobile malware static and dynamic analysis system.

Accelerated in Berkeley Skydeck.

FireEye acquired Ensighta Security for $3.2 million in 2012.

Inventors

Jin Chen, Zhijie Chen, Vijay D Silva, Shuaifu Dai, Noah Johnson Walls, Heejong Lee, Woenchan Lee, Woosuk Lee, Alessandro Reina, Xiaodong Song, Xiaoyin Wang, Hui Xue

Company...