IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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

Nanosys

Brief Description SiNANOdeª, a silicon-graphite anode material, improves the performance of lithium-ion batteries: Significant increase over existing solutions in full cell energy density and cycle life. Manufacturing process compatible with existing graphite-anode electrode production equipment. Scalable SiNANOdeª production processes available now for technology transfer and licensing. Timeline 2001. Company founded Inventors

Ali Shakouri, Arunava Majumdar, Peidong Yang, Yiying Wu, Rong Fan, Timothy Sands, Haoquan Yan, Eicke Weber, Richard Russo, Johannes Kind, Samuel Mao, Henning Feick...

Namuh

Brief Description Namuh is on a mission to close the nutritional gap between infant formula and human milk. The company provides parents with infant nutrition closest to breast milk at the molecular level, using only clean and thoughtfully-sourced human milk ingredients so parents can nourish their babies with confidence. This is made possible by NAMUH’s proprietary yeast-based technology to create human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), the critical missing ingredient, structurally identical to those found in breast milk. Powered by the clean HMOs and partnerships with premium protein/lipid...

MRL Bio

Brief Description

The company is developing a unique drug delivery platform for tissue regeneration in acute and chronic wounds.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Phillip Messersmith, Jing Cheng, Ellen Heber-Katz

Lymphax, Inc.

Brief Description

Lymphax, Inc. is a therapeutics company treating ocular diseases and conditions.

Formerly known as NewVision Bioscience, Inc.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Lu Chen, Sammy Grimaldo, Meng Shi, Don Yuen

Lightstage LLC

Brief Description

Light Stage systems efficiently capture how an actor's face appears when lit from every possible lighting direction. From this captured imagery, specialized algorithms create realistic virtual renditions of the actor in the illumination of any location or set, faithfully reproducing the color, texture, shine, shading, and translucency of the actor's skin.

UC Berkeley, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers invented the Light Stage technology, led by Paul Debevec (Berkeley...

Leucadia Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

IRIS International acquired Leucadia Technologies for $10.1 million in 2006.

Timeline 1998. Company founded 2006. Acquired by IRIS International, Inc. Inventors

Charles Cantor, Roy Chuck, Doris Tse

Laguna Bio

Brief Description

Developer of drug discovery platform designed to selectively activate and expand the innate immune system against cancer. The company specializes in providing a specific type of T cell for the immune system to fight solid tumors by increasing the response rate of a bispecific antibody drug, enabling patients to survive a deadly disease like cancer.

Timeline 2022. Company founded Inventors

Daniel Portnoy, Thomas Patrick Burke, Juliana Durack, Jonathan Lewis Portman, Christopher Rae, Rafael Jose Rivera Lugo, Kimberly Makiko Sogi, Sarah Ann Stanley,...

C. Light Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

C. Light Technologies, Inc. is revolutionizing the way we detect, monitor, and treat multiple sclerosis (MS) through the use of a patented, non-invasive, IRB-approved retinal eye-tracker - the tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscope (TSLO) with accompanying machine learning algorithms. In the future, our vision is to use the TSLO for other applications, including concussions, Parkinson’s, ALS, and Alzheimer’s.

Timeline 2014. Company founded 2023. C. Light receives FDA clearance for retinal eye movement monitor, Retitrack Inventors

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Berkeley Microinstrument, Inc.

Brief Description

Berkeley MicroInstrument exploited flexural-plate-wave technology to develop sensors and actuators. FPW delay lines make use of ultrasonic waves generated by micromachined membranes on silicon chips, providing high sensitivity to actuators as well as physical and gravimetric sensors.

Timeline 1993. Company founded Inventors

Stuart Wenzel, Richard White