IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

Avametric

Brief Description

Avametric technology enables brands to deliver accurate 3D renderings of their apparel & accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and augmented reality. With the proprietary software, business can recreate a real-world fitting room experience online, making it possible for customers to try on garments virtually with a personalized 3D avatar. The company was born out of ARCSims adaptive refining and corsening simulator technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Sciences James O'Brien. Dr. O'Brien co-founded Avametric,...

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.

Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Mautusi Mitra

Company Founders

Matthew Caspari (UC Berkeley, MBA, Business Administration), Bertrand Vick (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Philosophy)

Timeline 2006. Company founded 2015. Acquired by Reliance Industries

AudioFocus

Brief Description

The company designs state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms that focus on sounds using binaural cues, just like the human brain. AudioFocus uses deep learning to selectively amplify nearby sounds, filtering out other sounds and voices that don't match this fingerprint, and then plays the edited audio stream back, enabling the users to hear friends and family clearly in noisy environments, like restaurants and conferences.

Inventors

Shariq Aman Mobin, Bruno Olshausen

Company Founders

Shariq Mobin (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Philosophy)

Timeline 2019...

Atheer Inc.

Brief Description

Atheer’s pioneering Augmented Reality Management Platform provides the world’s leading enterprises a competitive edge by markedly improving the productivity, effectiveness, accuracy, and safety of their workforces, customers, and supply chains.

Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Roozbeh Jafari, Sosale Sastry, Allen Yang

Company Founders

Ullas Naik, Babak Yazdani (UC Berkeley, B.A. ’87, Applied Mathematics), and Albert Azout

Timeline 2011. Company founded

AsparaGlue

Brief Description

AsparaGlue has developed a superglue-like medical adhesive for external wound closure and internal tissue adhesion. The proprietary technology is the world’s only biocompatible and biodegradable medical superglue.

Inventors

Philip Messersmith, Subhajit Pal, Ji Soo Shin, Kelsey Gray DeFrates

Company Founders

UC Berkeley Professor Phillip Messersmith (Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering) and Subhajit Pal (Ph.D.)

Timeline 2023. Company founded; joins Berkeley Skydeck accelerator, cohort 16

Artris Therapeutics, Inc.

Brief Description

Artris Therapeutics was founded to identify and develop cancer therapeutics. The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics Daniel Nomura.

Inventors

Leslie Bateman, Jessica Cestellos Spradlin, Tucker Huffman, David Miyamoto, Elizabeth Anne Moore, Truc Bang Nguyen, Daniel Nomura, James Arthur Olzmann, Allison Marie Roberts, Carl Ward

Timeline 2017. Company founded

ArKal Medical Inc.

Brief Description

ArKal Medical has developed the next generation continuous glucose monitoring system, using its minimally invasive, proprietary and patented MicroTipª technology. The Microtipsª provide painless access to ISF glucose. The ArKal CGM sensor is worn externally on the skin like a patch and measures glucose using classical electrochemical glucose oxidase enzyme-based chemistry. The GlucoPodª CGM system consists of three main components: a disposable sensor patch, a reusable transmitter, and a reusable wireless smart receiver.

Inventors

Dorian Liepmann, Albert Pisano,...

Addition Therapeutics

Brief Description

Addition Therapeutics is transforming genetic medicine by developing RNA-only therapeutics that PRINT™ any genetic element at specific safe harbor sites.

Inventors

Kathy Collins, Jeremy John McIntyre, Sarah Madeline Palm, Heather Upton, Briana Nicole Van Treeck. Xiaozhu Zhang

Company Founders

UC Berkeley Professor Kathleen Collins

Timeline 2021. Company founded

Magnetic Tides

Brief Description

Magnetic Tides has developed a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) system capable of modulating brain function more reliably and effectively than previously existing NIBS methods.

NIBS is used as a research tool to safely, transiently alter the excitability state of targeted neurons when testing causal hypotheses about brain-behavior relationships. In addition, clinicians have recognized the potential of NIBS as a new intervention in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Inventors

Richard Ivry, Ludovica Labruna, Benjamin Inglis,...

Apertor Pharmaceuticals

Brief Description

Apertor creates novel molecular glues for therapeutic applications in multiple disease areas. The company applies a world-class synthetic biology platform using non-model organisms, a deep knowledge of complex natural products relevant to human health, and a computational pipeline enabled by structure-guided design. The result is a first-in-class approach to solving important pharmacological problems and delivering new, high-value treatment options for patients. The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and of...