Altitude Lab

Size

300–25,137 sq ft

Price

From $1,820/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

Available

Aquillius is a privately run life-science and medtech innovation hub in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo area, with 25,000+ sq ft of purpose-built lab and office space under one roof. It is unusual among shared-lab providers in combining wet labs and BSL-2 cleanrooms with an on-site vivarium, analytical chemistry suites, and an ESD-safe tech/prototyping lab (3D printers, CNC, SolidWorks workstations) — so device and therapeutics startups can go from bench work to preclinical studies to prototype in the same building. Companies can scale from a single lab bench up to a private lab suite (roughly 300 sq ft to the full 25,137 sq ft floor), alongside incubator programming, mentor/investor networking, and funding guidance.

Size

Not published

Price

From $1,500/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

BTNB (Bio, Tech and Beyond) is a North San Diego County life science incubator offering one of the cheapest entry points into professional wet lab space: $1,500/month for a dedicated 10-foot BSL-2 bench that includes a desk, -20C/-80C freezer space, DI water, liquid nitrogen and access to roughly 30 shared instruments. Founded in 2013 as a City of Carlsbad-backed incubator, it bought its own 7,000 sq ft building at 6076 Corte Del Cedro in 2019 and houses a community of ~20 resident startups. Notably, BTNB explicitly takes no rights to residents' research results, and part-time bench access can be arranged.

Size

250 sq ft

Price

From $1,600/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Ask provider

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.