LAB+

LAB+ is a Uruguay-based life-sciences company builder and investor. It raises private capital and deploys it across two ends of the spectrum: innovative scientific ideas at an early, pre-company stage, and established life-sciences startups already in operation. Its stated scope covers ventures in human, animal and environmental health - a framing it describes as the One Health approach - spanning medicine, biology and biotechnology.

The organisation's model combines investment with hands-on company building. Working alongside scientists, LAB+ supports the validation of research for commercial potential, and then provides founders with strategic, scientific, administrative, financial and professional support as they create and grow companies. It is a joint undertaking between Institut Pasteur de Montevideo and FICUS Advisory, pairing a research institution with business and investment experience.

LAB+ operates from Uruguay with international reach, drawing on its association with Institut Pasteur de Montevideo and a network of international connections to help ventures develop into sustainable global enterprises. Its stated mission includes contributing to Uruguay's knowledge-based economy through the commercialisation of science.