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In Birkirkara since 2017
Nine years of offices, meetings, talks and events
BUSINESSLABS opened in Birkirkara in 2017. The company behind it, B2B Malta, has advised businesses since 2009. This is the line so far, a year at a time.
2009
B2B Malta is founded
B2BMALTA LTD is set up in 2009 for market research, feasibility studies, business plans and funding applications. It runs BUSINESSLABS today, and its team gives the business support on this website.
- 2011A call centre for the national bus concession
- 2012Fieldwork for international research agencies begins
- 2015The first feasibility studies for inventors under FUSION
- 2016B2B Malta takes the space in Birkirkara, and the fit-out begins
2017
BUSINESSLABS opens
Offices, coworking desks and meeting rooms open in a building on the Birkirkara bypass in the middle of 2017, and the official launch is in September. The BUSINESSLABS wordmark is cut into the reception counter from the start.
2018
The first seminars
In June, Starting Up in Blockchain, a seminar series, fills the event room. By then the yellow, white and blue lines are on the floor: the lines this website follows.
2019
The community grows
“BUSINESSLABS is not about physical space as much as it’s about social space.”
From a BUSINESSLABS talk at Global Entrepreneurship Week Malta, 2019
Weekly breakfasts; Startup Grind Malta in September; a panel for Global Entrepreneurship Week Malta; Accelerate Now!, with the PARSEC Accelerator; and on 31 October, Halloween at the lab.
2021
Through the pandemic
The pandemic stops the events for a while, and members get breathing space to cushion the blow. In November 2021 two films show the space at work: a business moving in, here, and a day at BUSINESSLABS.
2022
Five years of BUSINESSLABS
BUSINESSLABS turns five. In February the whole space is photographed again, for the photographs on this website, and an anniversary night marks the five years, on film here.
2023
The community comes back
After the pandemic the community comes back: on the strength of its name, the space fills up again, and quickly.
2024
Beyond our walls
B2B Malta takes its own research to the Hilton Malta, and the space becomes home to the EIT Community Hub Malta.
- 14 MarchMalta Consumer Trends, B2B Malta’s own study, presented at the Hilton Malta to more than 150 people
- 20 MarchThe Malta Diversity & Inclusion Charter is launched here, by CORE Platform
- 4 SeptemberThe EIT Community Hub Malta opens here. It is based at BUSINESSLABS until the end of 2026
2025
The Innovation Exchange
On 26 February, the first Brain & Bites: a lunchtime talk on the last Wednesday of the month. In the autumn, The Innovation Exchange: three workshops here in October, then a conference at Villa Arrigo on 14 November for 113 people, organised by the EIT Community Hub Malta and powered by BUSINESSLABS and HATCH.
2026
HATCH launches
HATCH, the incubation brand based here, soft-launches its incubator programme, open to founders all year. In August, Brain & Bites with the EIT’s Global Outreach team; and a new identity for BUSINESSLABS, starting with this website.
So far
Nine years in numbers
Since the first workspace agreement in September 2017, counted from our own records.
- 350+businesses and professionals have worked with us
- 2,500+meetings, trainings and events booked in our rooms
- 8,000+hours of meetings, trainings and events
- 5.0on Google, from more than 100 reviews
The next chapter
Book a tour
A tour takes about 30 minutes. It starts in a meeting room, where we ask what you need, and then we show you the offices that fit.
- Where
- Level One, Triq Dun Karm, Birkirkara BKR 9037
- Reception
- 08:00–17:00, Monday to Friday, except public holidays
- Rather talk?
- +356 2219 5001 or ask us by email