{"id":2272,"date":"2025-06-29T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/what-is-startup-campus-and-what-is-it-not\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:25:45","slug":"what-is-startup-campus-and-what-is-it-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/what-is-startup-campus-and-what-is-it-not\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Startup Campus\u2014and what is it not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Science and technology-based companies (EBCT) are critical to developing scalable, high-impact solutions to humanity\u2019s major challenges, such as climate change, the water crisis, and food security.<br\/><br\/>According to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation\u2019s 2021 Second Characterization Study of Science and Technology-Based Ventures and Companies in Chile, these companies face specific challenges such as the need for long-term financing, the complexity and length of their technology validation cycles, a shortage of specialized technical support, a lack of commercial and business skills, and the distance between their solutions and market demand.<br\/><br\/>With this reality in mind, and based on a diagnosis of the local ecosystem, Startup Campus was designed\u2014a project driven by Corfo and Fundaci\u00f3n Chile\u2014which is the country\u2019s first hub providing specialized support for science and technology-based entrepreneurship (EBCT), with dedicated infrastructure for developing technologies to address the major challenges associated with climate change.<\/p>\n\n<p>This initiative seeks to bring together the full range of support available for these types of companies\u2014for example, specialized acceleration or support programs\u2014building capabilities in key areas such as fundraising, internationalization, and more; mentoring sessions with experts; access to public and private financing (grants, investment, and debt); direct industry connections through open innovation for piloting; and the infrastructure and equipment needed for technology validation. Across 3,850 m2, it will include co-working spaces, an auditorium, collaboration areas, offices, a life sciences laboratory, and a prototyping lab.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What is Startup Campus not? <\/strong>It\u2019s not a building, it\u2019s not a co-working space, it\u2019s not a city, it\u2019s not a chunk of concrete and bricks, and it\u2019s not a real estate business.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>These are some of the points we know many people want to understand, and we hope to gradually address them and share more details. We\u2019re just getting started, and we want to spark conversations with the ecosystem to enrich and complement the project with external perspectives that help us develop it in the best possible way.<\/p>\n\n<p>People have talked about stones and concrete, referring to the \u201cbuilding.\u201d However, this project is not going to invest in that\u2014but it will invest in bricks, stones, steel, cables, technology, and all the infrastructure needed to have laboratories where EBCTs can access and validate their technologies. There is a lack of understanding of these startups\u2019 needs: they require complex, high-quality equipment and therefore high costs that, most of the time, they cannot finance.<\/p>\n\n<p>There have also been references to \u201cfailed\u201d projects of this kind; however, I believe it\u2019s the entrepreneurs themselves who have taught us that the biggest mistakes can yield the most valuable lessons.<\/p>\n\n<p>We don\u2019t have absolute certainty about the recipe for success, but we believe that with will, effort, knowledge, work, and collaboration, we can build it. Building an ecosystem is based on collaboration, and today I invite you to do just that: contribute, support, and drive the major changes the country needs, because this ambitious project needs every one of you.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Francisca Contreras<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting Executive Director, Startup Campus<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and technology-based companies (EBCT) are critical to developing scalable, high-impact solutions to humanity\u2019s major challenges, such as climate change, the water crisis, and food security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startuplab01.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}