Founded in 1999 and headquartered Cambridge, Mass, CIC builds and operates innovation campuses. CIC and its family of affiliated organizations, including LabCentral and MassRobotics, provide innovators with high-end science and technology shared infrastructure including offices, biotech laboratories and robotics development centers. Venture Cafe, the CIC's fast-growing global network of non-profit innovation ecosystem-building organizations, has hosted over a quarter of a million people in its programs across six cities on three continents. It is opening in several additional cities in 2018.