IPIRA Startups

IPIRA Startups

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

Scribe Therapeutics

Brief Description

Scribe is focused on the engineering, delivery, and development of next-generation CRISPR molecules to rewrite and repair the underlying cause of genetic disorders. The molecular engineering company was spun out of discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. Doudna co-founded Scribe with company CEO Benjamin Oakes, who received a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from UC Berkeley in 2017, where he worked in the Doudna Lab and Savage Lab, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of...

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates

Brief Description

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping, and drillhole logging using digital methods implemented in two integrated and compatible mapping software systems, one for mapping and the other for logging.

Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas

Timeline 2001. Company founded

ScaleLight

Brief Description

ScaleLight is developing surface-emitting lasers that boost efficiency and scalability for powering everything from manufacturing and fusion plants to data centers and quantum computers. The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Boubacar Kanté, whose groundbreaking research solved a longstanding optics challenge to create compact, lightweight, high-efficiency lasers, called Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers, or BerkSEL, for greener manufacturing and energy.
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RS3Dprints

Brief Description

3D printing for medical and food applications. Mass producing alternative steaks from alternative ground beef. Scalable solution for 3D printed alternative meat.

The Cryolithographic Technology was initially developed to produce biological organs for organ transplant. Realizing that there was an immediate commercial opportunity in food production, RS3Dprints was spun out of the lab.

Inventors

Boris Rubinsky, Ze'ev Shaked, Michal Adamkievicz

Company Founders

Dan Rubinsky

Timeline 2016. Company founded

RM2

Brief Description

Wound treatment.

Inventors

Mary Phillips, Paul Mikus, and Boris Rubinsky

RoadSafe GIS, Inc.

Brief Description

Our team is bringing modern technology to collision data management. We have seen too many outdated or complex software tools in the field and felt there was a better way. We are dedicated to providing a clean, effective means to manage collision data. We want to empower traffic safety practitioners and help them reduce the number and severity of motor vehicle collisions on our roadways.

We have a strong background in engineering, GIS, cloud technology, programming and research. That is the heart of RoadSafe GIS. We are excited to be providing our service and look...

Rewrite Therapeutics

Brief Description

Rewrite Therapeutics accelerates drug development using a proprietary CRISPR-based evolution platform. For more information, contact Shakked Halperin.

Formerly known as Evolve Biotech, and Rewrite Biotech.

The company was acquired by Intellia Therapeutics in 2022.

Inventors

Shakked Halperin

Company Founders

Shakked Halperin (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Bioengineering), David Schaffer

Timeline 2018. Company founded...

RHA Technology, Inc.

Brief Description

The company was founded to develop sustainable, eco-friendly concrete composed of rice hull ash (RHA). RHA Technology, Inc. was born out of technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Povindar Kumar Mehta, who invented techniques for energy saving and waste material utilization in the manufacture of cement. Dr. Mehta was a world expert in the development of "green concrete."

Inventors

Povindar Kumar Mehta

Renovis, Inc.

Brief Description

Renovis, Inc. was a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs to treat neurological diseases and disorders. The company used molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, in vitro and in vivo pharmacology, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and informatics to identify and select small molecule drug candidates that meet stringent standards for development.

Renovis was founded by UC Berkeley and UCSF faculty. Founder Corey Goodman was the UC Berkeley chair of neurobiology, head of the neurobiology division, and co-founder and director of the Wills...