The House of Lab Science, the innovation cluster and ultimate destination for serviced laboratory space across Switzerland, and The Valley are thrilled to announce their collaboration by opening a new dedicated space in The Valley with serviced biotech and food labs and coworking space in March 2025.
The Greater Zurich Area accommodates a Life Sciences cluster of startups and innovative companies which is leading on a global scale. The concentration of know-how and output in this area is unparalleled. At the same time, innovation in the life sciences is primarily driven by startups which in turn often spin off from a university setting. Once the freshly incorporated companies leave their labs and offices on the campus, they would lose time and money finding an appropriate new home. The House of Lab Science solves this problem by providing outfitted and serviced bio and food labs in The Valley for particularly food and biotech startups. Startups can move in and start being productive on day one.
In a first wave, the owners of The Valley, Mettler2Invest and Motorworld, invest in 1’500 sqm to equip the building with biological laboratories, infrastructure rooms, and coworking office spaces and rent these two floors out to House of Lab Science which will find the right startups to move in and develop the next generation of foodtech and biotech innovations. If this story becomes a success, then another 1’500 sqm / two floors will be provided in the same building which will result in a major footprint in the life sciences startup scene in Switzerland.
he Valley is particularly well suited as a location for the next House of Lab Science, as the new building will be at the centre of an existing and already thriving ecosystem that includes Givaudan, Bühler and the successful scale-up company planted.
Easily accessible by all means of transport, the Kemptthal Valley is located in the heart of the Greater Zurich Area between the cities of Zurich and Winterthur.
The listed industrial buildings are being extensively renovated to create an inspiring and unique microcosm. Together with additional new buildings, which will be architecturally integrated into the existing historic buildings, approximately 100,000 m2 of space will be created. This will be used by a wide range of industries.
At the heart of The Valley project was the vision of the new owners and developers to continue the eventful industrial history of the former Maggi site – in a forward-looking way that reflects the thinking and needs of 21st century companies, start-up businesses and industries.
Source: House of Lab Science, Kemptthal, July 20th, 2023
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