CoLabs helps you get started and build faster, for real-world impact.

Lab Space
Build a Lab
Innovation Facilitation
Office Space

Access fully equiped wet and dry lab spaces, essential equipment and amenities.
Designed to foster innovation and collaboration.
Building and designing labs that are tailored and fit-for-purpose Australia wide.
Take your project from zero to one.
Offering expertise across various stages of the startup lifecycle.
Refine your idea, access marketing support, and join a collaborative community.
Impact-oriented co-working spaces.
Work towards a future where social and environmental flourishing can co-exist.

We provide the missing infrastructure founders and R&D teams need to focus on work that matters, for all of us. Because frontier science shouldn’t get stuck.

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Why CoLabs

Start within days, scale for years

From ready-to-use lab benches with instrumentation to PC2 pods with fume hoods and benches, you can start research in days and progress faster than anywhere else.

We give a damn (like you)

We’re a values-led organisation. If you're working towards better outcomes for people and the planet, you'll find a team and a flourishing community that understands what's at stake.

Offset more R&D tax

You own everything you discover, develop and validate at CoLabs. There’s no IP ambiguity to undermine your value or investor appeal. And no strings to slow you down.

Hands-on support

We don't just hand you a key. We roll up our sleeves to help you source extra equipment, find researchers and staff, conduct R&D, and so much more. If we don’t know the answer, we’ll find it.

Keep your IP

You own everything you discover, develop and validate at CoLabs. There’s no IP ambiguity to undermine your value or investor appeal. And no strings to slow you down.

Customise your space

Need a fume hood reconfigured? A dedicated area for your equipment? We work with you to shape your space around your science, not the other way around.

Access enabling infrastructure

Co-Labs membership offers state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, and services to foster innovation in the biotechnology sector.

A community to grow in

Be inspired and supported by some of the world’s boldest mission-driven bio and deep tech founders, plus transdisciplinary supporters to help you succeed.

Compliance, handled

Skip compliance headaches and hold ups with our ready-to-use PC1 and PC2 labs, as well as compliant engineering and hardware space. We’re here to help, not hinder.

Flex up, down or sideways

Scale your space and membership up or down as needed, without lengthy negotiations. We make it as easy as possible to stay focused where you need to.

Accelerate innovation

Tap into Co-Labs’ resources, expertise, and networks to catalyse your research and development efforts, bringing your ideas to life.

A collaborative ecosystem

Join a thriving community of like-minded researchers, entrepreneurs, and professionals, encouraging collaboration and driving advancements in your field.

Foster connections

Engage with industry partners, government agencies, and academic institutions through Co-Labs’ extensive network, amplifying your impact and opening doors for collaboration.