QB3 Garage/Innovation Network
The garage is the paradigm for the Silicon Valley startup—think Apple or HP. However, real garages are not suitable for experiments in modern biology. Biotech entrepreneurs have a much harder time moving from idea to prototype, which reduces the rate of innovation.
To address this challenge, QB3 created two incubators that allow very small companies access to modern laboratory space close to UC faculty. These incubators, the QB3 Garage@UCSF and the QB3 Garage@Berkeley are the biological laboratory equivalent of garages: small spaces for entrepreneurs to lay the foundations for companies that may spearhead new industries.
Space is limited. The Garages are only open to spin-outs from University of California laboratories. Space is available at market rates for pre-commercial development for periods of up to two years.
QB3 has teamed with private partners to offer microspace in a growing network throughout the Bay Area. Network tenants enjoy:
- A density of innovators in related areas
- Introductions to UC researchers for collaborations
- A broad range of core facilities that QB3 and UC provide to outside users for modest fees
- Seminars and symposia
- Entrepreneurial networking services
QB3 Garage/Innovation Network map
In the News
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How to start a biotechnology company
UCSF Medical Alumni magazine, January 12, 2012
“QB3 Startup in a Box” Helps UC Entrepreneurs Launch Companies
UCSF News Center, September 26, 2011
Movin’ On Up
QB3 News, August 31, 2011
Omniox spreads its bets on oxygen-binding proteins
San Francisco Business Times, August 19, 2011
UC’s QB3 bioscience and cleantech incubator arrives at old Twinkies bakery site in Berkeley
Contra Costa Times, June 21, 2011
QB3 houses mavericks both old and new
San Francisco Business Times, April 15, 2011
QB3, Deloitte team up to clone incubator model
San Francisco Business Times, March 25, 2011
UC-business accelerator QB3 is 10
San Francisco Business Times, February 18, 2011
Grad students signal startup sea change
San Francisco Business Times, February 18, 2011
Masters of innovation: Biological frontiers
PlumTV, January 18, 2011
Expansion of incubator network, seed fund among QB3 priorities for 2011
GenomeWeb, December 21, 2010
QB3 asks entrepreneurs to help UC startups fly
San Francisco Business Times, December 17, 2010
QB3 looks to spark dry kindling
San Francisco Business Times (Bay Area BizTalk blog), December 17, 2010
Mission Bay coming of age
San Francisco Business Times, December 14, 2010
BioSF seeks to expand Mission Bay life-science hub
San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, 2010
Off the path: Dan Widmaier
UCSF Synapse, November 11, 2010
Siluria gets VC backing for natural gas push
San Francisco Business Times, October 22, 2010
Pacific Rim biotechs join QB3 incubator
San Francisco Business Times, September 24, 2010
The Mission Bay biotech cluster: Antibodies, RNAi, biofuels, & more
Xconomy, July 29, 2010
Gold spun from gene-engineered spider’s silk
San Francisco Business Times, June 11, 2010
Biotechs stand to get health reform benefits
San Francisco Business Times, May 28, 2010
Grants, incubator and luck helped Fluxion automate and launch product
San Francisco Business Times, May 28, 2010
Business incubators drive growth
San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 2010
QB3 opens new incubator at UC Berkeley
GenomeWeb, May 6, 2010
Berkeley incubator opens
UC Health, May 5, 2010
‘Garage’ incubator expands to UC Berkeley campus
San Francisco Business Times, April 30, 2010
Hiring slows in biotech
Mission Local, April 28, 2010
Companies turn research into reality
UC Newsroom, April 22, 2010
Mission Bay incubators’ flock is ready to hatch
San Francisco Business Times, March 12, 2010
Incubators fertile ground for job creation
InsideBayArea, March 4, 2010
QB3 expands its roster of incubator tenants, adds LP to fund
GenomeWeb, February 24, 2010
Bay Area is home to a biotech boom
San Francisco Examiner, February 18, 2010
Biotech’s bonanza
San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 9, 2010
Biotech startup lands Michael J. Fox Foundation grant
San Francisco Business Times, January 20, 2010
Biotalk with QB3’s Douglas Crawford
San Francisco Business Times, November 11, 2009
Incubator firm aims to reduce animal testing
San Francisco Business Times, October 30, 2009
‘Goldilocks space’ is brass ring for rising biotechs
San Francisco Business Times, October 30, 2009
QB3 ties into $7.5M fund to seed startups
San Francisco Business Times, October 26, 2009
Biotech on a shoestring
Mission Local, October 23, 2009
Mission Bay hatches biotechlets
Mission Local, September 28, 2009
QB3 Mission Bay Incubator Network, and an interview with Douglas Crawford
Luminogenics, July 27, 2009
Incubator helps health companies in Mission Bay
San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2009
Biotech startups feast at ancestors’ expense
San Francisco Business Times, June 5, 2009
Mission Bay adds space to hatch more ventures
San Francisco Business Times, April 24, 2009
QB3 Garage startup snapped up for $25M
San Francisco Business Times, August 8, 2008
Affymetrix’s $25M True Materials buy is most recent graduate of QB3 Garage incubator
Biotech Transfer Week, July 30, 2008
Biotechs seek $150M for incubators
San Francisco Business Times, January 18, 2008
Bios born in Garage
San Francisco Business Times, December 21, 2007
Starter homes
The Deal Magazine, June 25, 2007
Biotech babies born in ‘Garage’
San Francisco Business Times, September 15, 2006
Bio deal breaks barriers
San Francisco Business Times, August 19, 2005