Lab Space for Rent in Bay Area

Size

250 sq ft

Price

From $1,600/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

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Bakar Bio Labs is UC Berkeley's flagship life-science incubator, operated with QB3 inside the 40,000+ sq ft renovated Woo Hon Fai Hall (the former Berkeley Art Museum), housing up to ~50 startup teams. It is unusual among top-tier incubators in publishing its rates openly — $1,600/month for a 6-ft BSL-2 bench, $600/month per office workstation, plus a $100/person/month membership — and lets companies start with a single bench and scale up. Tenancy is not limited to Berkeley spinouts, but admission is competitive: applicants pitch a selection committee, and accepted teams get campus core-facility access, an extensive shared instrument park, mentoring programs and investor showcases.

Size

25,000 sq ft

Price

From $550,000/desk/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Limited

IndieBio was rebranded "SOSV SF" in early 2026 as SOSV widened its scope from biotech to all of deep tech; indiebio.co now redirects to sosv.com. Its Dogpatch facility at 2565 3rd Street packs 25,000 sq ft with 40 lab bench seats, 79 desks and BSL-1/2 wet labs alongside a dedicated 2,500 sq ft chemistry lab and a 2,000 sq ft food prototyping lab — an unusually broad instrument list including ICP-OES, GC-TOF MS, LC-MS, AKTA FPLC, MiSeq and Opentrons robots. Critically, this is not open-market rentable space: bench access comes only with admission to the 4–6 month cohort, which is paired with up to $550K in pre-seed funding for roughly 10% equity.

Size

Up to 40,000 sq ft

Price

From $1,000

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Limited

JLABS is Johnson & Johnson's global life-science incubator network, offering wet lab benches, private lab suites and offices on a genuinely "no-strings-attached" basis — J&J takes no equity, claims no IP rights, and does not require confidential information to apply. Residents get capital-light access to shared instrumentation, EH&S and operations management, plus J&J scientific mentorship, investor/partnering days and QuickFire Challenge funding. Important caveat for 2026: JLABS has sharply contracted, closing Houston, Washington D.C. and Toronto and handing its NYC site to the New York Genome Center, leaving San Diego, South San Francisco and Boston (via LabCentral) as the only remaining North American physical sites.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

MBC BioLabs is the Bay Area's largest biotech incubator network, running five campuses — 953 Indiana St and 135 Mississippi St in San Francisco plus three San Carlos sites — that together host 190+ resident companies and have launched over 500 startups since growing out of the QB3 Garages. Members rent benches, private lab rooms and offices on a flexible, pay-for-what-you-need basis, with access to millions of dollars of shared instrumentation including a dedicated Mass Spectrometry Center, hourly tissue-culture rooms, and rack-level freezer rental. Its differentiator is the pharma partner network (J&J Innovation, AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novo Nordisk, Astellas and others) and the Golden Ticket program, which sponsors a full year of free lab space for selected startups.

Size

150–14,000 sq ft

Price

Not published. Dedicated R&D lab/office suites listed at "Negotiable" rates; Hatch Labs incubator quotes all-inclusive upfront pricing (phone, internet, kitchen, conference rooms included) on request.

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Available

Menlo Park Labs is a 50-acre, 18-building science campus on the Mid-Peninsula near Stanford, jointly owned by Tarlton Properties and Principal Real Estate Investors, offering everything from 150 sq ft incubator suites to standalone Class A wet lab buildings. Early-stage founders can start in Hatch Labs, a month-to-month incubator where phone, internet, kitchen and conference rooms are bundled into upfront pricing, then expand on demand into dedicated R&D suites without relocating. Its differentiator is CoLab, a shared instrument lab staffed by a professional lab scientist for equipment calibration and hands-on support, paired with campus amenities rarely found at lab parks — a 7,000 sq ft BioFitness center with saltwater lap pool, on-site organic restaurant, and BART/Caltrain/SF shuttles.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

Limited

Mission BioCapital is an early-stage life science VC firm (founded 2009, currently investing out of its fifth fund) that pairs capital with physical bench space through its affiliated lab operator, MBC BioLabs. In the Bay Area it runs five campuses totalling roughly 200,000 sq ft — the 24,000 sq ft flagship at 953 Indiana in SF's Dogpatch (opened 2013, four blocks from UCSF, 125+ startups supported), 135 Mississippi near UCSF Mission Bay, and three San Carlos buildings including the 100,000 sq ft 1030 Brittan that opened in April 2025. Beyond its own sites, members and Platinum Program winners can access a wider affiliated network of 31 incubators across 22 cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, scaling from a single bench to teams of 30+.

Size

130–2,738 sq ft

Price

$1,800–$7,900/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Valley Research Park is a 104,000 sq ft private research campus in Mountain View — originally built out by MedImmune — offering roughly 100 flexible, plug-and-play lab suites to a community of 80+ deep-science companies. It is unusual among shared lab providers for combining wet-lab infrastructure (BSL-2 labs, ISO7/ISO8 cleanrooms, tissue culture suite, and an on-site vivarium) with heavy industrial power (4,000 amps of 3-phase 480V/208V plus two 300kW backup generators), so it serves hardware, semiconductor and cleantech R&D teams as readily as biotech. Labs rent month-to-month at published all-inclusive rates, letting a 1–6 person team move in without a multi-year lease.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Available

Alexandria LaunchLabs is the incubator platform of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, offering research-ready, fully furnished private and shared lab and office space to seed- and early-stage life science companies of roughly 1–35 people across six US clusters: New York City, Cambridge, Seattle, San Diego, the SF Bay Area (Stanford Research Park) and Research Triangle. What sets it apart from a typical incubator is that space sits inside Alexandria's Megacampus ecosystems and comes bundled with roughly 30 pieces of shared core equipment, curated programming and mentorship, plus direct access to startup capital through Alexandria Venture Investments and the Alexandria Seed Capital Platform. The NYC facility was the first laboratory space in the world to achieve a WELL Health-Safety Rating.

Size

Not published

Price

Flat-fee, all-inclusive subscription covering lab space, office space, equipment access and support services; rates not published — tour/call required

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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BADASS Labs (Bay Area Disruptor And Start Up Support Labs) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit biotech incubator operating two fully built-out wet lab campuses in Alameda, just across the bay from San Francisco — 25,000 sqft on Atlantic Ave and 32,000 sqft at Harbor Bay. As a nonprofit it takes no equity and makes no IP claims, charging a single flat all-inclusive fee that covers private or shared lab space, office space, 24/7 access to 45+ shared instruments, waste handling, permits and purchasing support. Leases start at a three-month minimum and members get reciprocal access across all sites, making it a fit for solo founders through 20+ person teams in cell/gene therapy, oncology, biomanufacturing and climate tech.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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Bonneville Labs is a Bay Area coworking wet-lab operator offering everything from a single shared bench to fully private lab suites, bundled with the operational layer most startups don't want to build: EH&S management and quarterly inspections, equipment maintenance, complimentary autoclave/glasswash, biohazard disposal, and discounted procurement through a Biocom/Thermo Fisher partnership. Important for anyone searching Berkeley: the original Berkeley site at 626 Bancroft Way is no longer listed and its location page now 404s — current operations are two South San Francisco facilities (1 Corporate Drive and 750 Gateway Blvd) plus a Hayward site at Mt. Eden Research Center that is still marked "coming soon." They pitch a 6–24 month saving versus building your own lab, and pricing is quote-only via a consultation call.

Size

6,000 sq ft

Price

From $750/bench/mo

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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Focus Innovation Studio is a boutique 6,000+ sq ft members' studio in SoMa that pairs a dedicated laboratory level with three floors of creative coworking, private offices, an art gallery and a roof deck — housed in the former Adolph Gasser Photography building, where startups literally work on the 75-year-old original benchtops. Scientists can start with a single bench and expand as they grow, with 24/7 access to shared molecular biology and chemistry equipment including laminar flow hoods, CO2 incubators, PCR thermocyclers, autoclave, -80°C freezers and liquid nitrogen cryostorage. Its unusual mix of artists, designers and technologists alongside life science founders — plus ONDA reciprocal access to coworking in 80+ cities — makes it a distinctly non-corporate alternative to standard biotech incubators.

Size

800 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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The QB3 Garage@Berkeley is a small, on-campus wet lab incubator inside UC Berkeley's Stanley Hall, offering roughly 800 sq ft split into just eight bench-plus-desk stations for early-stage biotech companies. Its real draw is proximity: residents sit in the same building as QB3-Berkeley's eight core research facilities, including cryo-EM (Cal-Cryo), NMR, mass spectrometry, genomics, MacroLab and the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center. It is the original, pre-Bakar Labs UC Berkeley incubator and has graduated companies such as Caribou Biosciences, CinderBio and GenEdit.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

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Triple Ring Technologies runs Intersect™, a deep-tech incubator at its 39655 Eureka Drive campus in Newark (Silicon Valley), with a sister site in Boston's SoWa district. Members get private or shared BSL-2 wet lab space, an ISO Class 6 certified cleanroom/dry room and professional office space — roughly 45,000 sq ft of lab and 65,000 sq ft of office across the program — on customizable, flexible lease terms. What sets it apart is co-location with Triple Ring's own 100+ engineers and scientists, so resident medtech and life-science startups can buy in full product-development, imaging, and prototyping expertise plus investor connections rather than just renting a bench.

Size

100–4,382 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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BioCube is a privately run life-sciences incubator with two Silicon Valley campuses — its South San Jose HQ at 5941 Optical Court and BioCube North at 2680 Zanker Road — totaling roughly 140,000 sq ft and currently hosting 40+ companies. It is unusual in offering a full growth ladder under one operator: prorated bench access in shared "Concept Labs" (~100 sq ft), individual suites of 500–1,300 sq ft, and move-in-ready wet lab suites up to 4,382 sq ft, with the operator building out custom facilities as tenants scale. Its alumni track record includes Ariosa, Genia and GeneWEAVE, each acquired by Roche for $350M–$625M.