On May 27, 2021, AgStart opened The Lab@AgStart, a 6,200 sq. ft. facility in Woodland, CA, that includes co-working space, meeting rooms, dedicated offices, the Yocha Dehe Wet Lab (with wet lab benches and shared lab equipment) and Raley's Food Lab (a commercial-grade kitchen). It offers startup entrepreneurs in the Ag|Food|Health space a shared lab facility to use as they begin to commercialize their innovations.
Within six months, the 26 user benches in the wet lab were fully occupied by ten startups. In its first year of operation, startup companies residing at the incubator created over 24 new full-time-equivalent professional jobs and brought over $45 million in private capital investment to our region. Some of these companies have invested further in our region, building their own pilot/scale-up facilities with plans to move there over the next year.
Seeing this level of demand and impact, AgStart started its Phase-2 expansion earlier this year. In September 2022, The Lab at AgStart will open a new wing, adding fermentation and tissue culture capacities and more than doubling its lab and office space.
Within six months, the 26 user benches in the wet lab were fully occupied by ten startups. In its first year of operation, startup companies residing at the incubator created over 24 new full-time-equivalent professional jobs and brought over $45 million in private capital investment to our region. Some of these companies have invested further in our region, building their own pilot/scale-up facilities with plans to move there over the next year.
Seeing this level of demand and impact, AgStart started its Phase-2 expansion earlier this year. In September 2022, The Lab at AgStart will open a new wing, adding fermentation and tissue culture capacities and more than doubling its lab and office space.
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