IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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

Calimetrics, Inc.

Brief Description

In the early 1990s, UC Berkeley biophysics doctoral students Michael O'Neill and Terrence Wong, under the guidance of their professor Allan Bearden, developed a laser measurement innovation that led to the foundation of Calimetrics, Inc. in 1994 and to the subsequent development of MLTM (MultiLevel) Recording for optical data storage systems.

MLTM Recording: Unlike conventional binary recording, ML Recording allows data to be stored in marks (or pits) of multiple levels of reflectivity, thereby increasing data density on the surface of read-only,...

CellScope Inc.

Brief Description

CellScope’s mission is to make healthcare more accessible and convenient. We are building smart mobile tools to empower families with easy access to health answers and care when they need it most.

CellScope was acquired. The details are not yet public.

Timeline 2010. Company founded Inventor David Breslauer, Jesse Dill, Erik Douglas, Daniel Fletcher, Wendy Hansen, Wilbur Lam, Robi Maamari, Amy Sheng, Neil Switz

Berkeley Open Arms

Brief Description

Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware. Berkeley Open Arms manufactured the BLUE robot arm that was developed at UC Berkeley's Robot Learning Lab. BLUE is a low-cost, high-performance robot that is intrinsically safe, developed from the ground up with ever-increasing artificial intelligence capabilities in mind. BLUE was designed to use recent advances in AI and deep reinforcement learning to master intricate human tasks, while remaining affordable and safe.

Formerly known as Berkeley Open Robotics, Inc.

Timeline 2018. Company founded Inventors

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Neuprene Inc.

Brief Description

Neuprene, Inc. is developing a “green” technology for the production of a short-chain volatile hydrocarbon called ISO-NEUPRENE, the next generation solution in fuels and chemicals. ISO-NEUPRENE is a direct replacement for isoprene, a short-chain hydrocarbon produced from petroleum as a byproduct of the refining process.

Inventors

Fiona Davies, Pia Lindberg, Anastasios Melis, Hsu Ching Wintz, Andreas Zurbriggen