Portal Innovations, a venture development engine that provides seed funding, specialised equipment, lab space, and management expertise to high-potential early-stage companies, is partnering with Life Technologies Corporation, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
This partnership will further Portal Innovations’ mission to provide premier scientific equipment and resources to its portfolio companies that work out of Portal’s 50,000 sq ft of life science laboratories in Fulton Labs in Chicago.
The partnership will combine Life Technologies’ lab equipment and software with Portal’s seed investments and laboratory infrastructure to allow its portfolio of life sciences startups to quickly and efficiently access premier equipment and Class A lab space.
