IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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...

CaseForge, Inc.

Brief Description

CaseForge produces personalized stabilizers for use in research and clinical imaging. These stabilizers interface with medical devices to precisely position the patient and eliminate motion, guaranteeing comfortable, fast, simple placement consistency across treatments.

The company was founded by graduate students in the lab of Dr. Jack Gallant, a professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology, and an affiliate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and programs in Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Biophysics and Vision...

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

Calyx

Brief Description

Calyx is a materials science company that harnesses biology to provide low cost and highly accurate sensors for real-time detection and analysis of air chemicals in a variety of industries, including safety, healthcare, transportation, and food. The company offers commercial customers phage-based sensing and analysis of multiple gasses.

Company co-founders Ray Chiu and Benson Fan developed the company’s founding technology as a capstone project while they were students in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Masters in Bioengineering program. With the encouragement of UC Berkeley...

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,...

California Wave Power Tech

Brief Description

CalWave Power Technologies Inc. provides a solution to harness the renewable power of ocean waves to produce electricity and freshwater. CalWave’s patented Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is moored offshore, simple and scalable. WEC operates submerged, allowing it to survive stormy seas while causing no visual pollution or posing any collision danger.

CalWave co-founder and CEO Marcus Lehmann co-invented the company's foundational technology during his time as a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Marcus was inspired...

CalGen Therapeutics

Brief Description

Developer of a therapeutic inhaled antisense technology designed to prevent and treat respiratory infections.

Inventors

Kasper Karstensen, Sakari Kauppinen, Anders Michael Naar, Chi Zhu

Company Founders

Anders Naar (UC Berkeley, Ph.D. ’95, Molecular Pathology), UC Berkeley Professor of Metabolic Biology in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

Timeline 2021. Company founded

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.

Inventors

Austin John Roorda, Pavan Kumar Tiruveedhula, Christy Sheehy-Bensinger, William Tuten, and Qiang Yang

Company Founders

Christy Sheehy (UC...

BioScale, Inc.

Brief Description

BioScale developed diagnostic solutions that address critical unmet needs in population health and chronic care. An area of focus has been vulnerable populations such as those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The company's algorithms utilized combinations of blood-based biomarkers for identifying individuals at high risk for severe outcomes. BioScale's rigorous approach to test development included collaborating with leading academic medical centers and validating assays in large, carefully curated cohorts.

Bioscale...

BioChoric

Brief Description

Biochoric uses isochoric supercooling to enable stable preservation of sensitive biological matter at sub-zero temperatures without freezing or solidification.

Inventors

Matthew Powell-Palm, Boris Rubinsky

Company Founders

Matthew Powell-Palm, UC Berkeley Professor Boris Rubinsky

Timeline 2021. Company founded