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.

Timeline 1998. Company founded Inventors

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

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...

Exelixis, Inc.

Brief Description

Exelixis, Inc. is a commercially successful, oncology-focused biotechnology company that strives to accelerate the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for difficult-to-treat cancers. Following early work in model genetic systems, the company established a broad drug discovery and development platform that has served as the foundation for its continued efforts to bring new cancer therapies to patients in need. The company developed CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib), COMETRIQ® (cabozantinib) and COTELLIC® (cobimetinib), and partnered with leading...

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.

Timeline 2006. Company founded 2015. Acquired by Reliance Industries Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Mautusi Mitra

Acrigen Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

Acrigin Biosciences is developing Precision Gene Editing Systems to harness the power of CRISPR for use in human therapeutics. Acrigen’s proprietary technology leverages novel αCas and μCas CRISPR gene editors coupled with ErAcrs (engineered anti-CRISPR proteins) to create an editing toolbox with best-in-class efficiency and precision. The company's technology will expand the impact of CRISPR by improving the efficacy and safety of novel gene editing therapies.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Christof Fellmann, Haridha...

Adura Technologies

Brief Description

Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting and energy management systems to improve energy efficiency and facilitate cost savings.

Adura Technologies was acquired by Acuity Brands in 2013.

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2013. Adura Technologies acquired by Acuity Brands Inventor

Charlie Huizenga

3C Energy Corporation

Brief Description

The company builds modular systems to capture and convert ambient carbon dioxide to value-added products such as fuels, biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, commodity chemicals, and biomass.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventor

Douglas Clark

Molecular Dynamics

Brief Description

The development of high speed, high throughput and highly accurate DNA sequencing methods was one prerequisite for the success of the Human Genome Project. In answer to this need, Richard Mathies and his lab at UC Berkeley developed a new method called capillary array electrophoresis (CAE) where multiple separations could be performed in parallel using bundles of microcapillaries and allowed the generation of over 2.8 million bases in 24 h.

Molecular Dynamics was acquired by Nycomed Amersham Pharmacia Biotech for approximately $256 million in 1998. Amersham was...