IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Nadaeon

Brief Description

Life sciences company.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventors

Danica Chen, Hanzhi Luo

Synvivia, Inc.

Brief Description

Synvivia is a synthetic biology company that optimizes cell behavior for gene therapy manufacturing, providing a practical solution for genetically encoded biocontainment. The company is building genetically encoded biocontainment technologies that will enable the widespread use of synthetic biology outside of the laboratory.

The company's technology was developed at UC Berkeley with grants from the NSF and DARPA. The work was published in ACS Synthetic Biology and featured as an Editor’s Choice in Science Magazine. Synvivia has exclusive license to the...

Iris Micromedical, Inc.

Brief Description

Drug delivery based on microstructural devices that administer therapeutic agents to selected target sites for treatment.

Iris Micromedical was focused on the development of UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Engineering Mauro Ferrari's silicon particulate technology for the intravascular targeted treatment of cancer imedd.

Four years after founding Iris Micromedical, Dr. Ferrari moved to Ohio State University as a professor of bioengineering, internal medicine, and mechanical engineering, and reformed the company as IMedd, Inc.

Timeline 1995....

Biotock

Brief Description

Development of treatments for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Timeline 2022. Company founded Inventors

Monika Maria Haoui, Polina Lishko

IMYu

Brief Description

Rejuvenation therapy based on a modified version of an already FDA-approved plasma exchange technique known as plasmapheresis, in which a machine separates the plasma (the liquid part of the blood) from the blood cells and then returns the blood to the person receiving treatment. The company's approach, called next gen-apheresis, promises to spur the rejuvenation of organs and tissues as people age.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Irina Conboy, Michael Conboy, Wendy Cousin, Christian Elabd, Yutong Liu, Melod Mehdipour, David...

MRL Bio

Brief Description

The company is developing a unique drug delivery platform for tissue regeneration in acute and chronic wounds.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Phillip Messersmith, Jing Cheng, Ellen Heber-Katz

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

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...

Silicon Basis Ltd.

Brief Description

Low power SRAM memory IP compilers.

Timeline 2006. Company founded Inventors

Narasimha Bhat, Kamal Chaudhary

FuelFX, Inc.

Brief Description

FuelFX is a multimedia studio which produces an array of bespoke solutions from websites, mobile applications, and 3D animations to interactive training, augmented reality, and virtual reality.

Timeline

2007. Company founded

Inventors

Jennifer Edwards, Daniel Kammen, Timothy Lipman