CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)

CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) helps exceptional entrepreneurs around the globe innovate better and faster. In service of fixing the world through innovation, CIC creates the highest quality infrastructure and programing for innovators. This includes flexible and custom office space; shared wet lab facilities; civic innovation spaces; and targeted initiatives to support changemakers, disruptors, and out-of-the-box thinkers in growing their companies. Since its founding in 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CIC has attracted thousands of startups, investors, corporations, and service providers to Kendall Square, which is now known worldwide as a premier tech and life sciences hub. CIC currently operates shared office and lab space in an expanding network of locations in the US and Europe, including Miami, Philadelphia, Providence, Rotterdam, St. Louis, and Warsaw. Each CIC site is accompanied by close partnerships with universities, civic organizations, and special industry hubs in order to enrich cities with robust innovation communities that foster collaboration and accelerate social and economic progress. CIC partners include:• Venture Café Global Network, a growing group of locally rooted nonprofits connecting innovators to make things happen• LabCentral/Cambridge Biolabs, premier shared laboratory space for entrepreneurs and innovative life science startups• Impact Hub Boston, part of the global Impact Hub network uniting social impact-driven businesses• Civic innovation centers District Hall (Boston), Innovation Hall (St. Louis), and Quorum (Philadelphia), helping cities congregate and catalyze innovators through free and low-cost coworking and event space