IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Singulex, Inc.

Brief Description

Singulex is an immunodiagnostics company at the forefront of Single Molecule Counting technology, a novel immunoassay technology recognized for unprecedented ultra sensitivity in the precision measurement of biomarkers. Singulex is the developer of the Singulex Clarity system, a fully automated, in vitro diagnostics platform powered by Single Molecule Counting technology. With up to 1,000 times more sensitivity than existing technologies, Single Molecule Counting reveals the presence or absence of disease more clearly and definitively than was possible before. The...

Similix Corporation

Brief Description

Similix Corporation specializes in supporting lawyers, engineers, and businesses in evaluating possible infringement of software copyrights and other intellectual property. Similix's patented technology is based on algorithms developed in MOSS (for Measure of Software Similarity), which has been widely used by thousands of academic institutions for over a decade. Similix's product, MossPlus, is routinely used in multi-million dollar copyright and criminal theft cases to determine whether and which parts of large bodies of software have been copied, modified, or...

Silicor Materials, Inc.

Brief Description

Silicor Materials was a global leader in the production of solar silicon. The company was headquartered San Jose, California, with a research and development team located in Berlin, Germany.

The organization was founded as a development company in 2006 under the name Calisolar, with the goal of manufacturing low-cost photovoltaic (PV) solar cells from silicon designed specifically for the solar industry (“solar silicon”) rather than electronic-grade polysilicon. Among the company's founding members was solar energy pioneer UC Berkeley Professor of Materials Science...

Silicon Genesis Corporation

Brief Description

Silicon Genesis Corporation, doing business as SiGen, develops substrate technology, processes, and equipment for semiconductor, solar, display, and optoelectronics markets worldwide. The company provides silicon-on-insulators (SOIs), strained-silicon products, and other engineered multi-layer structures for microelectronic and photonics industries for advanced electronic and optoelectronic device applications. Its products include Stand-Alone Plasma-Activation Tool, a small footprint tool that provides a reactive surface to bond silicon wafers and heterogeneous...

Sift Biosciences

Brief Description

Sift Biosciences supercharges existing cancer therapies by leveraging artificial intelligence and high-throughput cellular screening to discover and design immunotherapy boosters that significantly extend cancer patient survival. The company was co-founded by Yue Clare Lou (BS ’18 Microbial Biology; PhD ’23 Microbiology) and Maddie Williams (PhD student '23-present, Molecular & Cell Biology) to commercize technology developed during their doctoral research at UC Berkeley.

Inventors

Yue "Clare" Lou, Madeline Dee Williams

Company Founders

Yue "Clare" Lou (...

Shrink Technologies, Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Shrink Technologies, Inc., based in Carlsbad, California, was acquired by Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. on May 29, 2009. Shrink Technologies specializes in developing innovative technologies, particularly focused on metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) applications. Their MEF technology, which integrates rapid prototyping methods with metal-fluorescence enhanced immunoassays, significantly enhances the sensitivity of diagnostic assays, making it possible to detect interactions that current methods miss. This technology has broad applications in drug discovery,...

Setex Technologies

Brief Description Setex Technologies is the leading manufacturer of gecko-inspired, dry adhesive solutions, offering innovative products that surpass traditional adhesives, gripping materials, and fasteners. Our Setex™ products empower product designers and engineers in both B2B and B2C sectors to create unique, first-to-market designs and address complex manufacturing challenges, enhancing both top-line and bottom-line performance. Founded in 2009 by Dr. Metin Sitti, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, nanoGriptech (now Setex Technologies) has built its expertise through nearly a...

Serinus Labs

Brief Description Serinus Labs is the world`s first manufacturer of integrated silicon gas sensors. Enabled by cutting-edge nanotechnology, Serinus Labs specializes in providing custom solutions for existing and emerging gas sensor markets such as in industrial health and safety, automotive, consumer electronics and healthcare. Inventors Ali Javey Company Founders

Ali Javey Ph.D (UC Berkeley Professor, EECS), Gordon Charles

Timeline 2017. Company founded.

Sensetics

Brief Description

Sensetics is taking human and machine touch interaction into the digital age, providing the hardware and software to record, edit, and transmit touch.

Sensetics Touch Signature™ programmable fabrics, backed by AI-powered touch capture and editing software, grant a user the ability to experience in real time what a remotely operated vehicle, surgical tool, robot, or other user is touching, at the same resolution as the nerve endings in our fingertips.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Xiaoyu (...

Secured Streams, Inc.

Brief Description

Software for document content search and comparison from large sets or across the web.

Inventors

Alexander Aiken, Joel Auslander, Steve Fink, Saul Schleimer, Anthony Tomasic, Daniel Wilkerson

Timeline 2005. Company founded