IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

20/20 Display Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

20/20 Display Technologies solution allows people to view their devices without having to wear glasses, contacts, or receive extensive surgeries. This technology helps read emails, view videos or search the web, seeing the images in sharp focus without wearing corrective eyewear.

Timeline 2015. Company founded. Inventors

Brian Barsky, Fu-Chung Huang, Ramesh Raskar, Gordon Wetzstein

HFTA

Brief Description

Biomass remediation and energy generation through anaerobic digestion. HFTA's proprietary technology utilizes nitric acid rather than sulfuric or hydrochloric acid to hydrolyze cellulosic material for the production of ethanol and other fuels from biomass.

Timeline 1994. Company founded. Inventors

David Brink

CyberPac

Brief Description

CyberPac was founded to commercialize an antioxidant nutritional supplement.

Timeline 1999. Company founded Inventors

Lester Packer, Sashwati Roy, Chandan Sen, Oren Tirosh

Innovative Guidance Technologies

Brief Description

Automated vehicle control utilizing an intelligent roadway reference system for vehicle lateral guidance and control.

Timeline 2003. Company founded. Inventors

Robert E. Parsons, Wei-Bin Zhang

Isatis, LLC

Brief Description

SASSI software for analysis of soil-structure interaction.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Chih Cheng Chin, John Lysmer, Farhang Ostadan

Magan Materials

Brief Description

Magan Materials was founded based on revolutionary antioxidant materials discovered by UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Professor Alexander Katz’s research group.

Timeline 2022. Company founded. Inventors

James Charles Bohling, Juan Callejas, Alexander Katz, Manish Mishra, Antony Van Dyk

Kaiwood Technologies

Brief Description

Functionally integrated microanalytical system for performing fluorescence spectroscopy via fluorescence-excition radiation, typically from an LED, integrated onto a substrate along with a photodetector an an optical filter.

Timeline 2003. Company founded Inventors

J. Alex Chediak, Nathan Cheung, Luke Lee, Zhongsheng Luo, Timothy Sands, Jeonggi Seo

Mimesyn

Brief Description

Developing a novel class of molecules, aza-@-tides, that mimic the structural features of natural amino acids. These can be synthesized from amino acid precursors in either direction using standard peptide synthesis methods, facilitating the assembly of libraries incorporating all the amino acid building blocks.

Timeline 2004. Company founded Inventors

Paul Bartlett, Ming Chen Hammond, Stephen Olson, Scott Phillips, Miroslav Rezac

Videnda, Inc.

Brief Description

Cellular Neural Network universal machine and super computer, nonlinear networks.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. Inventors

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

Vicinitas Therapeutics

Brief Description

Vicinitas Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on targeted protein stabilizers known as Deubiquituinase Targeting Chimeras (DUBTACs). The company’s mission is to use this proprietary technology to solve critical problems in human health by developing next-generation disease therapies against an entire class of previously inaccessible disease-causing proteins. The company spun out of technology that was developed through an academic-industry collaboration between UC Berkeley researchers and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.

Timeline 2022...