Start Up Resources
The Research Triangle Region Provides
The room to grow and the resources necessary for you to be the best in the field.
Space Spotlight
Alexandria LaunchLabs
Alexandria LaunchLabs is the premier startup platform for life science and AgTech companies. They provide move-in-ready spaces, creative amenities, access to startup capital through their original platform, and engagement with Alexandria’s world-class network.
AgTech Space Available
BioLabs North Carolina operates a shared lab and incubator space for life science companies in Durham.
The Chesterfield building is located in downtown Durham’s Brightleaf District, a vibrant area featuring restaurants, retail, entertainment and housing. Vacant since 1999, the Chesterfield was redeveloped in 2017 by Wexford to become a new center of gravity in the life science and technology ecosystem. Duke University leases 100,000 square feet as collaborative lab space and hub for innovation.
Located in the heart of Research Triangle Park, First Flight Venture Center (FFVC) is a high-science, high-impact incubator that serves the initial needs of entrepreneurs and early stage science companies. FFVC offers 25,000 square feet of leasable office and laboratory space for up to 40 emerging high-science, high-impact companies.
Located in Research Triangle Park, The Frontier is comprised of four buildings that provide wet lab space, office space, coworking space, and amenities such as rotating food trucks and fitness classes.
Private-public venture created to foster collaboration and further knowledge in biotechnology, nutrition, agriculture and health.
Centennial Campus is NC State University’s research campus, home to 75 corporate, government and nonprofit partners. The Partnership provides business incubation, complete with wet lab facilities.
Offers flexible full-service wet and dry lab and office space for startup R&D companies. The Lab is managed by the Research Triangle Foundation.
The Duke Phytotron houses six completely closed greenhouse units and 49 miscellaneous chambers. The Phytotron is staffed seven days a week, allowing off-site researchers to run experiments without having to make extended visits. The Phytotron staff has extensive experience growing many species of native and agricultural from different habitats. Phytotron horticulturists are available to provide advice concerning plant cultivation issues.
The NC State Phytotron houses 60 growth chambers, four greenhouses and other miscellaneous chambers that can be used by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, post docs, commercial researchers and researchers from other universities. Users can pay for a cart that houses seedlings and is attended to by College of Agriculture and Life Science staff. The facility also allows researchers to grow and study plants under various combinations of strictly controlled environmental conditions.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill Greenhouse includes nine houses of allocated space. Area for rent and soil prep are available upon request, with a full time staff to ensure maintenance of the greenhouse standards.
Business Resources
As a private, non-profit, state-funded corporation, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and its Agriculture Sector Development team provide access to the people and resources ag tech companies need to get started in North Carolina. This includes identifying local talent and working with local government and economic development agencies to overcome challenges specific to life science. NCBiotech offers office space in its Landing Pad for relocating companies and grants to address gaps in infrastructure.
For the past 35 years, NCBiotech has supported the progression of ideas from research lab to marketplace. Consequently, North Carolina’s ag tech community is comprised of 100+ companies employing 9,200+ employees, two land grand university. NCBiotech continues to invest in technology development through grants and in company development through loans.
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) connects entrepreneurial companies with high-value resources to accelerate business growth. CED services and programs empower entrepreneurial companies to go further faster.