IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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...

Berkeley BioSciences Inc.

Brief Description

Berkeley BioSciences, Inc. is a molecular immunology and oncology company with two divisions: biopharmaceutical and nutraceutical. It is researching and developing therapeutics and nutritional products based on patented naturally-occurring and biologically optimized phytonutrients with potent immune modulating and anti-cancer properties. The company was founded by Dr. Gary Firestone, former Chairman of the Nutritional Sciences Department and NIH Director of Cancer Research at UC Berkeley. The company's first...

Bandwidth9, Inc.

Brief Description

Bandwidth9, Inc. manufactured fiber-optic components and modules optimized for metro optical network systems. The company offered Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) and optical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Structure (MEMS) based optical components and subsystems. Its products included OC-48 tunable transmitter, a VCSEL device with a movable MEMS mirror. Bandwidth9, Inc. was formerly known as Bandwidth Unlimited, Inc.

Inventors

Connie Chang-Hasnain, Janice Hudgings, Kam Yin Lau, Sui Lim

Company Founders

Hatch Graham

Timeline ...

Bandwidth10 Inc.

Brief Description

Bandwidth10 was founded to commercialize cutting-edge tunable lasers suited for high-speed and high-resolution sensing in the medical, industrial, automotive, and telecommunication industries. The company brings revolutionary wavelength-tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology to the market, delivering cost-effective tunable solutions that are out of reach with conventional technologies. The company’s swept-source VCSELs range in wavelength from 720 nm to 1700 nm for FBG sensing, 2D and 3D imaging, biosensing, gas sensing, LIDAR, industrial and...

Axent Biosciences

Brief Description

Axent Biosciences is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing next generation stem cell therapies to address unmet medical needs in human diseases/disorders. The company was spun out of research discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience David Schaffer. Axent's platform technologies in stem cell manufacturing and implantation leverage 20+ years of stem cell expertise and 10+ years of biomaterials engineering to overcome major bottlenecks in the clinical development...

Avametric

Brief Description

Avametric technology enables brands to deliver accurate 3D renderings of their apparel & accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and augmented reality. With the proprietary software, business can recreate a real-world fitting room experience online, making it possible for customers to try on garments virtually with a personalized 3D avatar. The company was born out of ARCSims adaptive refining and corsening simulator technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Sciences James O'Brien. Dr. O'Brien co-founded Avametric,...

Aurora Algae Inc.

Brief Description

Aurora Algae produced premium, algae-based products for the pharmaceutical, nutrition, aquaculture and fuels markets.

Formerly known as Aurora Biofuels.

Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Mautusi Mitra

Company Founders

Matthew Caspari (UC Berkeley, MBA, Business Administration), Bertrand Vick (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Philosophy)

Timeline 2006. Company founded 2015. Acquired by Reliance Industries

AudioFocus

Brief Description

The company designs state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms that focus on sounds using binaural cues, just like the human brain. AudioFocus uses deep learning to selectively amplify nearby sounds, filtering out other sounds and voices that don't match this fingerprint, and then plays the edited audio stream back, enabling the users to hear friends and family clearly in noisy environments, like restaurants and conferences.

Inventors

Shariq Aman Mobin, Bruno Olshausen

Company Founders

Shariq Mobin (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Philosophy)

Timeline 2019...

Atheer Inc.

Brief Description

Atheer’s pioneering Augmented Reality Management Platform provides the world’s leading enterprises a competitive edge by markedly improving the productivity, effectiveness, accuracy, and safety of their workforces, customers, and supply chains.

Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Roozbeh Jafari, Sosale Sastry, Allen Yang

Company Founders

Ullas Naik, Babak Yazdani (UC Berkeley, B.A. ’87, Applied Mathematics), and Albert Azout

Timeline 2011. Company founded

Artris Therapeutics, Inc.

Brief Description

Artris Therapeutics was founded to identify and develop cancer therapeutics. The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics Daniel Nomura.

Inventors

Leslie Bateman, Jessica Cestellos Spradlin, Tucker Huffman, David Miyamoto, Elizabeth Anne Moore, Truc Bang Nguyen, Daniel Nomura, James Arthur Olzmann, Allison Marie Roberts, Carl Ward

Timeline 2017. Company founded