IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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.

Inventors

Lennart Olsson, Andrea Goldsmith, Robert Goodenow

Company Founders

Lennart Olsson

Timeline 1987. Company founded

RareTerra, Inc.

Brief Description

RareTerra is developing a one-step environmentally friendly bio-process for selective rare-earth element (REE) extraction, separation, and purification that doesn't rely on harsh acids or high temperatures and pressures. RareTerra’s technology eliminates the costliest and most hazardous steps of the manufacturing process, and is compatible with complex, dilute, and waste REE sources. The company's proprietary process leverages the power of genetic and metabolic engineering to unlock the remarkable capacity of microbes to separate REEs from other metals and bioaccumulate...

Quick Flash Technologies

Brief Description Electrochromic Solutions.

Manufacturer of manually controlled transition lenses intended to protect eyesight. The company's product offers color-changing sunglasses that have lenses which will allow users to adjust the shade of sunglasses with e-tint technology and with a light sensor to control the electricity applied to the lenses, enabling long-term drivers and outdoor workers to quickly adjust the depth of the mirror in any condition for any light.

The company also has a product line of dynamic, energy-saving smart windows designed to change transparency based...

Quadrant Imaging

Brief Description

LAMDA-based (laser amplified motion detection and analysis) ultra-high resolution optical microscopes with high-density data storage system, using a method of laser feedback interferometry which permits the imaging of nanometer-scale structures.

Inventors

Alan Beardan, Micheal O'Niell

Company Founders

Alan Bearden

Timeline 1995. Company founded

Q-Chem Inc.

Brief Description

Q-Chem, Inc. is a comprehensive ab initio quantum chemistry program to solve computational problems faster, more accurately and less expensively than ever before possible. Q-Chem's capabilities facilitate applications in pharmaceuticals, materials science, biochemistry, and other fields. Q-Chem also provides users with the highest level of technical support.

Inventors

Alex Sodt, Andreas Dreuw, Anna Krylov, Anthony Dutoi, Barry Dunietz, Brian Austin, Chao Ping Hsu; Charles Sherrill, Christopher White, David Maurice, Edward Byrd, Gregory Beran, John Herbert, Joseph...

Protiveris, Inc.

Brief Description

Protiveris Inc. develops and commercializes micro- and nanocantilever systems for academic research, drug discovery and development, bio-defense, protein research, and discovery of new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic applications.

Inventors

Ohmyyoung Kwon, Arunava Majumdar, Minyao Mao, Thomas Perazzo, Guanghua Wu, Yang Zhao

Company Founders

John Peeters

Timeline 1998. Company founded

Propagate Sensing

Brief Description

Measuring changes in temperature and strain distributed along the length of an optical fiber with Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry for civil engineering projects.

Inventors

Bo Li, Linqing Luo, Kenichi Soga, Jize Yan, Yifei Yu

Company Founders

Bo Li

Timeline 2021. Company founded

Prolific Machines

Brief Description

Prolific Machines specializes in cell production with a unique manufacturing approach that combats climate change, enables space-food, and makes cell therapy accessible to everyone. The company's photomolecular biology platform leverages safe and effective tools — light, bioengineering, hardware, and AI — for dynamic control over virtually any cell function in any cell type. With the technology, partners can more efficiently biomanufacture nutritional proteins, antibodies to treat diseases, cultivated meat, and more.

Inventors

Ruoxing Lei, Thomas Patrick McClave,...

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.

Inventors

Kenneth...

Pow.Bio

Brief Description

Pow.Bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology. The company has built an AI platform that rapidly identified better-performing process conditions, increasing output 2–3x from existing infrastructure within just 100 days. The company's services combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize the fermentation process and deliver high yields at low cost. The scale runs from 1-100 liter capacity for bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi. The first-of-its-kind fermentation technology solves the...