Shared Facilities

Equipment and space can be a prohibitive cost for early companies. Shared facilities offer early teams space to develop and test their products, often with a community of similar interests.

Fabrication Space

Inventors have moved out of the garage and into shared maker spaces, where they have access to more equipment and a supply of potential collaborators.

Commercial Kitchens

A pipeline of aspiring food entrepreners are looking for flexible licensed commercial kitchen space to test, develop, and produce their products. Some are driving as far as Boston to find it.

Life Science Facilities

As Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research continues to commercialize academic discoveries, early life science companies need flexible, highly specialized spaces to start in before growing.

Fabrication Space

makehaven

Since relocating with grant support, MakeHaven has grown from 160 to 400 members, with 38 businesses supported by their expanded facilities.

Tinaliah Cooperative

Opening in 2021, Tinaliah is a design cooperative of textile makers and micro-businesses with a new fabrication space at 770 Chapel, adjacent to MakeHaven.

Commercial Kitchens

incubator kitchen

11 businesses are currently supported by grant-funded equipment at scattered site kitchen spaces managed by Cityseed, part of a vision for a Community Food Systems Hub.

CT Food LAunch Pad

Under construction in 2021, the CT Food Launch Pad will support food entrepreneurs through the process of refining their recipes into food products and producing them for distribution.

Life Science Facilities

science park testing facilities

Since 2017, companies supported by Science Park’s expanded testing facilities have added 157 jobs and received $142.9m in equity investments.

bioscience incubator planning

CTNext funding supported planning and program design work for a potential incubator facility at the upcoming 101 College bioscience tower.

downtown lab incubator conversion

Beginning in 2021, a capital project will retrofit a downtown laboratory space to a life science incubator with space for up to 15 companies and a talent program.