IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Ambrx Inc.

Brief Description Ambrx®, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a mission to deliver breakthrough protein-based therapeutics using an expanded genetic code. Unlike conventional conjugation techniques that create a mixture of suboptimal molecules, Ambrx technology combines site specific conjugation with proprietary linkers, payloads and pharmacokinetic extenders to create a single molecular species that is optimized for safety, efficacy and biophysical properties. We call this process Protein Medicinal Chemistry™.

Protein Medicinal Chemistry™ can optimize any protein or antibody to...

Picoyune

Brief Description

Picoyune replaces complex equipment with reliable, portable, and easy to use devices.

Their first target? Mercury. The company has developed a miniaturized, low-cost mercury sensor and applying it to personal exposure monitoring. The portable device is a good fit for testing in the field as there is no need for heavy lab equipment or carrier gas. It is also a practical mercury monitor for vulnerable artisanal/small-scale gold mining communities.

Timeline

2013. Company founded

Inventors

Catherine Koshland, Jeffrey Crosby, Jay James, Donald Lucas

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates

Brief Description

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping, and drillhole logging using digital methods implemented in two integrated and compatible mapping software systems, one for mapping and the other for logging.

Timeline 2001. Company founded Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas

TeraOps

Brief Description

Developer of OmniScope, a compact, portable night vision goggle system with multi-spectral sensing and enhanced color visualization.

Timeline

1996. Company founded

Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

Silicon Basis Ltd.

Brief Description

Low power SRAM memory IP compilers.

Timeline 2006. Company founded Inventors

Narasimha Bhat, Kamal Chaudhary

RM2

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Wound treatment.

INVENTOR

Mary Phillips, Paul Mikus, and Boris Rubinsky

RHA Technology, Inc.

Brief Description

The company was founded to develop sustainable, eco-friendly concrete composed of rice hull ash (RHA). RHA Technology, Inc. was born out of technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Povindar Kumar Mehta, who invented techniques for energy saving and waste material utilization in the manufacture of cement. Dr. Mehta was a world expert in the development of "green concrete."

Inventor

Povindar Kumar Mehta

Receptron, Inc.

Brief Description

Receptron, Inc. was founded to develop hormone receptor technology that modulates the endogenous thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor, a human hormone that stimulates patelet production.

Timeline 1987. Company founded Inventors

Andrea Goldsmith, Robert Goodenow, Lennart Olsson

Preference Metrics, LLC

Brief Description

The company's proprietary numerical method, called a principal component analysis, delivered computer-based recommendations of selective information based on an individual's personal preferences such as books, invoices, stocks, or toys. Preference Metrics, LLC was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg, based on his filtering algorithm, named Eigentaste, that uses universal queries to elicit real-valued user ratings on a common set of items, and applies principal component analysis (PCA) to the resulting dense subset of the ratings matrix.

Timeline 1999...

Narra Biosciences, LLC

Brief Description

Narra Biosciences develops anti-cancer therapeutics based on anti-cancer properties of the soybean protein Lunasin (from the Tagalog word "lunas" for cure. The technology can be used to identify potential drug targets and diagnostic biomarkers, and also as a research tool for understanding epigenetic control of gene expression during cancer development. The company was founded by UC Berkeley Nutritional Science and Toxicology Professor Ben de Lumen based on research discoveries in his lab.

Timeline 2015. Company founded Inventors

Benito de Lumen,...