IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

ChemFinity Technologies

Brief Description

ChemFinity Technologies is tackling one of the most urgent challenges of the energy transition: the critical mineral shortage. The company leverages highly tunable porous polymer sorbents that selectively extract more than 20 different metals and other elements from liquids and gases. ChemFinity has developed two forms of materials: sorbent beads, which function like a Brita filter but target specific metals, and membranes that purify water while simultaneously capturing valuable metals. The technology has the potential to efficiently recover metal from various waste...

Ceres, Inc.

Brief Description

Ceres, Inc. produced seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuel production. The biotech company, based in Thousand Oaks, California, with a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil, operated from 1996 to 2016, when it was acquired by Land O'Lakes.

Inventors

Robert Fischer, Yeonhee Choi, Van-Dinh Dang, Mary Gehring, Robert Goldberg, Michael Hannon, John Harada, Tetsu Kinoshita, Tomohiro Kiyosue, Linda Margossian, Yukiko Mizukami, Nir Ohad, Jack Okamuro, Ramin Yadegari

Company Founders

Richard Hamilton, Benjamin Schapiro

Timeline...

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.

Inventors

David Breslauer, Jesse Dill, Erik Douglas, Daniel Fletcher, Wendy Hansen, Wilbur Lam, Robi Maamari, Amy Sheng, Neil Switz

Company Founders

Erik Douglas (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Bioengineering), Amy Sheng (UC Berkeley, MBA ’13)

Timeline 2010. Company founded

CellASIC Corp.

Brief Description

CellASIC¨ ONIX Microfluidic Platform delivers precise control for live cell analysis experiments by facilitating long-term perfusion cell culture. Cutting-edge microfluidics technology provides an improved cell culture microenvironment, exceptional quality for high magnification microscopy, and superior media switching capabilities.

The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering Luke Lee and his graduate students Paul Hung and Philip Lee.

Inventors

Ju Sung Hung, Luke Lee, Philip Lee

Company Founders

Philip...

Cell-X

Brief Description

Editing T-cells with nanopore-electroporation to improve CRISPR-Cas9 editing capabilities.

Inventors

YuHong Cao, Jennifer Doudna, Enbo Ma, Peidong Yang

Company Founders

Ziliang Yang, Ran Liu

Timeline 2021. Company founded

Cell Guidance Systems Ltd

Brief Description

Cell Guidance Systems is based in Cambridge (UK), at the heart of one of the world's most exciting biotech regions. The company develops therapeutic products as well as medical research tools and technologies that expand the possibilities of life science research and medicine. The company's success has been achieved by working closely with many researchers from around the world (including Japan, USA, Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, and the UK) to develop truly innovative products that address unmet medical and research needs. Many of the Cell...

Catena Biosciences

Brief Description

Cantena Biosciences uncovered a novel protein conjugation method that can bring breakthroughs in biological therapeutics, autoimmune disorders, and vaccine development.

Catena’s technology allows the attachment of any two proteins together faster and more selectively than any competing method by attaching the natural amino acids tyrosine and cysteine. Since the company's platform uses only naturally occurring amino acids, it is more widely applicable than competing technologies and can be used to create complicated constructs far beyond...

Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Catalyst is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging exceptional science to discover and develop essential medicines. Catalyst is focused on creating and commercializing novel medicines to address serious medical conditions for patients who need new or better treatment options.

Inventors

Bradley Backes, Charles Craik, Jonathan Ellman, Jennifer Harris

Timeline 2002. Company founded 2015. Company merged, acquiring Targacept through a reverse merger, resulting in the combined entity trading...

CardioRegenx, Inc.

Brief Description

Developer of scanning electrochemical microscopy technology intended for clinical use.

Inventors

Julius Guccione, Kevin Healy, Mark Ratcliffe, Samuel Wall

Timeline 2015. Company founded

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,...