IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Davis Allergy Research

Brief Description

Research tool to test genetically-engineered foods for allergens.

Inventors

Bob Buchanan, Gregorio Del Val, Oscar Frick, Hye Rim Jung, Boihon Yee

Timeline 1998. Company founded

CyberPac

Brief Description

CyberPac was founded to commercialize an antioxidant nutritional supplement.

Inventors

Lester Packer, Sashwati Roy, Chandan Sen, Oren Tirosh

Timeline 1999. Company founded

Covarium, Inc.

Brief Description

Covarium offers advanced analytical services and custom pattern recognition software solutions for sensor systems and data mining applications. Covarium helps you separate the information wheat from the data chaff.

Formerly known as Health Interactive Inc.

Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Roozbeh Jafari, Sosale Sastry, Allen Yang

Company Founders

David Meyers

Timeline

2009. Company founded

Cortera Neurotechnologies

Brief Description

Cortera Neurotechnologies, Inc. designs medical devices aimed at revolutionizing the treatment of incurable neurological conditions. The company's mission was to deliver innovative products that improve patient care, quality of life and advance neuroscientific research.

Rikky Muller (PhD ’13 EECS) invented the company's foundational technology, a micro-electrocorticography (ECoG) device, as a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley. The small implant — as thin as plastic wrap and as flexible as a soft contact lens — can record...

Correlia Biosystems, Inc.

Brief Description

Correlia Biosystems develops streamlined assay platforms to reduce the time and cost for quantifying proteins for proteomic and pharmaceutical applications. Our research instruments provide multiplexing capabilities for large protein panels including cytokines and post-translational modifications with unparalleled speed and automation. The company is dedicated to reducing the cost and time to market for candidate drug compounds, and facilitating the access of researchers to large panel protein studies. The company's biomeasurement technology serves the world's top 20...

Cooler, Inc.

Brief Description

Cooler is a for-profit social venture that connects every purchase to a solution for global warming. It does this by enabling businesses and people to eliminate the global warming impact of their everyday purchases and activities.

Inventors

Christopher Jones, Daniel Kammen

Company Founders

Charlie Crystle, Michel Gelobter (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Energy and Resources), Mike Johnson, Luke Bayas

Timeline 2007. Company founded

CommandCAD, Inc.

Brief Description

CommandCAD, Inc. offers software solutions that enable foundries and design teams to achieve strategically critical efficiencies in the development of next generation chips and technologies. The integrated circuits layout technology is designed for architectural, construction, and woodworking designs. The company's integrated circuits layout optimization technology enhances physical verification and yield optimization by linking design data to metrology, and hotspot analysis, and improving optical proximity correction for design.

CommandCad's core technology was...

Cognitive Wearable Technologies

Brief Description

Cognitive Wearable Technologies developed a minimally obtrusive wearable system that can assess cognitive performance continuously throughout normal life activities by excitation of the peripheral nervous system and detection of the central nervous system response. The innovative cognitive assessment technology monitors the cognitive state of the wearer continuously throughout the day. The invention was developed in the lab of Boris Rubinsky, UC Berkeley Professor of the Graduate School at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering. The...

CNNSuperChip, Inc.

Brief Description

CNNSuperChip was founded to commercialize a supercomputer on a chip, called a cellular neural network, with a parallel analong array processor architecture similar to the retina.

Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

Timeline 2006. Company founded

Chiron Corporation

Brief Description

Chiron Corporation was an American biotechnology company engaged in biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood testing. Chiron was co-founded in 1981 by UC Berkeley biochemistry professor Edward Penhoet.

Inventors

Henry Chang, Felix Karim, Gerald Rubin, Marc Therrien, David Wassarman

Company Founders

Edward Penhoet (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy), William Link

Timeline 1981. Company founded 1990. Company Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol of CHIR. 2006. Acquired by Novartis