Wet lab space for SoCal biotech founders
9 real, hand-verified wet labs across Southern California — bench rentals, shared equipment, and full lab suites, not a stale third-party list.
Wet labs
Bio, Tech and Beyond
Carlsbad, CA
Nonprofit life-science incubator offering affordable shared wet-lab bench space with a tissue culture room, fume hoods, cold storage, and 30+ shared instruments.
Created by the City of Carlsbad; bought its 7,000 sq ft building as a permanent home in 2019.
BioLabs San Diego
San Diego, CA
Collaborative, fully-licensed coworking wet lab and office space for early-stage life-science startups inside an Alexandria-managed building.
16,000 sq ft suite with a 7,000 sq ft lab and $1.5M+ in shared equipment, capacity for 15-20 companies.
BioLabs at The Lundquist Institute
Torrance, CA
Collaborative wet lab and office coworking space for life-science startups, located inside The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
18,000 sq ft with $2M+ in shared equipment, home to roughly 40 startups and 95 resident scientists.
Center for Training, Technology & Incubation (CTTi)
Pomona, CA
Cal Poly Pomona's wet-lab and office incubator at Innovation Village Research Park, leasing space designed to scale with company growth.
EDA/NASA/Cal Poly Pomona Foundation funded in 1998, opened 2001, with a second EDA-funded wet-lab expansion in 2007.
Magnify Incubator at CNSI
Los Angeles, CA
A UCLA California NanoSystems Institute wet-lab incubator open to outside startups, not just internal research — private lab suites, shared BSL-2 tissue culture rooms, and access to CNSI's core equipment.
Opened around 2015, rebranded Magnify in 2018; members access $36M+ in shared scientific equipment.
HATCHlabs
Los Angeles, CA
Multi-tenant wet-lab facility in the LA Bioscience Corridor for diagnostics, medtech, biotech, and STEAM startups.
A 17,000 sq ft converted metalworks building, recognized by the LA Mayor's office as the city's first biotech wet-lab coworking facility.
Lab Launch
Monrovia, CA
Nonprofit operator of affordable biotech wet labs for LA-area startups, from single bench rentals to full private lab suites, with business and EHS support.
Operating 15+ years, with roughly 56 tenants served to date.
UC Riverside Life Sciences Incubator
Riverside, CA
A wet lab and collaborative workspace inside UCR's Multidisciplinary Research Building, genuinely open to outside startups rather than internal-only research.
The Inland Empire's first life-science incubator, launched with a $2.5M grant.
Pasadena Bio
Pasadena, CA
Nonprofit biotech incubator with shared-use wet lab space (hoods, incubators, autoclave, -80/-20 freezers) offered at open-bench or lockable-suite pricing.
Operating since 2004, grown from 500 sq ft to 12,600+ sq ft by 2020.