IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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

BioAmp Diagnostics

Brief Description

BioAmp develops novel, instrument-free screening and diagnostic tools to identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria in patient samples.

Inventors

Tara DeBoer, Niren Murthy, Jessica Marie Palomino, Lee Woodland Riley

Company Founders

Tara DeBoer

Timeline 2017. Company founded, and participated in the Citris Foundry accelerator program

Bio-H2

Brief Description

Bio-H2 was founded to commercialize a proprietary photosynthetic hydrogen production process that utilizes microalgal cultures.

Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Michael Seibert, John Benemann, Marc Forestier, Maria Ghirardi, Hsu Ching Wintz, Liping Zhang

Timeline 2002. Company founded

BeThere Computer Services

Brief Description

Software for ecommerce merchandising solutions.

Inventors

Jitendra Malik, Paul Debevek, Camillo Taylor

Timeline 1997. Company founded

Berkeley Yeast

Brief Description

Berkeley Yeast is a startup founded by UC Berkeley scientists, with grant funding from NSF, NIH, and USDA, as well as from venture capital. Berkeley Yeast bioengineers yeast strains that improve fermentation for brewers, winemakers, and beyond. The company uses synthetic biology to develop yeast strains with a variety of benefits, ranging from unprecedented control over flavors, to protection against the increasing vulnerability of crops, to greater product shelf stability and increased production efficiency. CEO Charles Denby co-founded the company based on the...

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.

Inventors

Pieter Ludovicu Abbeel, David...

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.

Inventors

Stuart Wenzel, Richard White

Timeline 1993. Company founded

Berkeley Madonna Inc.

Brief Description

Berkeley Madonna offers an incredibly fast, general purpose differential equations solver, which can handle large, memory-intensive models. Academic and commercial institutions use the software for for constructing mathematical models for research and teaching, solving ordinary differential equations, difference equations, multi-dimensional transcendental algebraic equation roots, and discrete simulations using conveyors, ovens, queues and more. The graphical interface provides an intuitive platform using symbols rather than writing equations, with a suite of tools for...