IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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.

Timeline 2011. Company founded. 2012. FireEye acquired Ensighta Security. Inventors

Jin Chen, Zhijie Chen, Vijay D Silva, Shuaifu Dai, Noah Johnson Walls,...

DNA Sciences, Inc.

Brief Description

While gene sequencing and gene expression technologies have become relatively industrialized, genetic analysis is a time-consuming, labor intensive, and rate-limiting step in drug discovery. DNA Sciences, Inc. removed this bottleneck by developing a high-throughput system that miniaturizes and automates genotyping.

The company's genotyping technology relied on microchannel electrophoretic DNA separation technology combined with fluorescent detection of PCR-amplified DNA. The company licensed the technology from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Ltd. (Uppsala, Sweden) and...

Digital Mosaic Systems, Inc.

Brief Description

Developing a cellular neural network and super-computer bionic eye.

Timeline 1999. Company founded. Inventors

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

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...

Fortiphyte

BRIEF DESCRIPTION Working with nature to create a greener future.

Provider of agricultural protection products that protect crops from disease and reduce fungicide use. The company helps identify natural disease resistance traits to accelerate the development of disease-resistant crop varieties.

Protecting plants from disease improves the yield, quality, and reliability of harvests to benefit growers and consumers.

Reducing agricultural chemicals in agriculture results in: less residue in food, reduced exposure for farm workers and nearby communities, less runoff into...

FLX Micro, Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

FLX Micro, Inc. manufactures silicon carbide-based microsensors. The company develops its products through silicon carbide deposition and microfabrication technology platform. Its products are used in various applications, such as automotive, energy, environmental, and manufacturing. The company was formerly known as Fiberlead, Inc.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. INVENTOR

Di Gao, Roger Howe, Roya Maboudian

EZNome, Inc.

Brief Description

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

Timeline 2018. Company founded. Inventors

Sean Chen, Lin He, Yiu-Fai Lee

Dahlia Biosciences

Brief Description Dahlia Biosciences is leading the development of cell-based RNA detection tools using CRISPR technology. The foundational RNA-targeting Cas9 technology was invented by Dr. Mitchell O’Connell and Dr. Sam Sternberg in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley.

The company's vision is to empower scientists to study and isolate cells at high resolution via sensitive, robust, and multiplexed RNA detection in both fixed and live cells.

Timeline 2011. Company founded Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Mitchell O'Connell, Benjamin Oakes,...

Chirp Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

Chirp Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures a line of extremely low power, ultrasonic 3D-sensing solutions for consumer electronics, smart homes, industrial automation, and much more. The company's ultrasonic 3D-sensing systems offer millimeter-accurate range information, based on machine learning and neural network algorithms and outperform infrared-based alternatives by every metric in real-world applications like consumer electronics, smart homes and industrial automation, enabling clients to avail the always-on sensing for...

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.

Timeline

2009. Company founded

Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Roozbeh Jafari, Sosale Sastry, Allen Yang