Startups
QB3 believes that bringing science and entrepreneurship together creates a formidable force for positive change. If you’re a life science entrepreneur at the University of California, we can empower you to build a successful company.
We help you get your startup off the ground. Early on in the process, we mentor faculty, postdocs, and students. And our Bridging-the-Gap Awards can fund the proof-of-principle experiments necessary to advance your project across the gap from NIH grants to commercial investment.
Faculty members that decide to incorporate can unpack the QB3 Startup in a Box, a one-size-fits-all package of services designed to take you to a successful SBIR application.
Then there’s the problem of finding space. Bio-entrepreneurs can’t work out of Starbucks. They need lab benches and access to specialized equipment that often costs millions of dollars. This is exactly what the QB3 Garage/Innovation Network offers, with options for both UC spinoffs and external startups. In our incubators, you can execute risk-reducing experiments and recruit your team within a stone’s throw of the university. Capital costs are low—we offer micro-space options—and tenants enjoy the guidance of our team and access to our network of entrepreneurs, service providers, and funding sources.
And when your company is ready to grow, QB3’s seed stage venture fund, Mission Bay Capital, provides early commercial funding to exceptional entrepreneurs.