Cambridge Innovation Center

Founded in 1999 by Tim Rowe and Andy Olmsted as Cambridge Incubator, Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. Overlooking the Charles River and the MIT campus, the Cambridge Innovation Center offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business and technical services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. Currently, over 800 companies are located at CIC. CIC manages roughly 150K sq. ft of office space in One Broadway. CIC has attracted some of the best-known startups in the Boston area. Rich Miner, co-founder of the Android smart-phone operating system, brought the project to CIC when they had just two employees, and grew it into the headquarters for Google in New England with 200 employees before taking permanent space. CIC client, Design that Matters, was awarded Time Magazine's Best Invention of 2010. CIC client, Great Point Energy, a coal gasification company, recently raised the largest round of venture capital ever raised by a US company from Chinese investors. Since 2001, CIC client companies have raised over $1.8B in venture capital.