Lab Space for Rent in Berkeley

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

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

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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

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.