Cambridge Innovation Center

Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is an American real estate services company which bills itself as a "community of entrepreneurs". The company was founded in 1999 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates Timothy Rowe and Andrew Olmsted. HB Reavis, headquartered in Luxembourg, has given funding of $58 million to Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) to expand its coworking spaces globally. CIC campuses are essentially a mix of startups, “corporate innovation spin-outs,” and VC funds, with tenants given access to desks, meeting rooms, labs, and more. 
"CIC also houses innovation globalization programs for more than a dozen governments including Canada, China, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands"
History.
CIC was founded in 1999 in at 238 Main St in Kendall Square (also the home of the MIT Treasurer's office). In April 2001 it grew to across the street at One Broadway. An unusual office design garnered its new office the Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects for 2000. It continued to grow, doubling in size twice by 2004, reaching and 75 companies.
In December 2006, a major transformer fire in an NSTAR electrical vault in the basement of One Broadway led to the building and the CIC being closed for 5 weeks. The 150 companies located in the building at that time, including Google, had to be relocated on an emergency basis in space provided by MIT.
In August 2008, CIC housed 170 companies, and was recognized as a phenomenon of sorts in a "Boston Globe" feature article. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited Cambridge Innovation Center in January 2009. , CIC had grown to over 500 companies.
In May 2013, CIC announced its first expansion outside of Massachusetts. CIC St. Louis anticipates being able to house up to 100 companies when fully occupied.
CIC is the first innovation center to have opened. Since its creation, private companies and local governments are promoting the creation of their own version of an innovation center. Innovation centers can be local development strategies through public-private partnerships for cities to foster innovation district.
In February 2018, the CIC signed a lease for in the heart of Kendall Square at the corner of Broadway and Main. The lease comes with a large street facing video screen and the location is a short distance from the Kendall/MIT station Red Line subway.
In 2020 they founded a subsidiary, CIC Health, to manage COVID-19 testing sites. In 2021, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts contracted CIC Health to run mass vaccination centers at Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park, which was later moved to Hynes Convention Center. CIC Health manages the scheduling and logistics for its testing and vaccines sites, while actual procedures are performed by contracted physicians and hospital workers.
Trivia.
In 2008, Cambridge Innovation Center operated one of the first bikeshare programs in the Boston area.