Who We Are
Advancing Discoveries through Community and Capital
Westlake BioPartners is a life science venture capital firm where every aspect of our approach is founded on the understanding that people are paramount to success. We empower entrepreneurs and provide them with the hands-on support and guidance they need to grow from ideation and preclinical research through clinical and commercial patient impact. Our personal scale enables us to consistently cultivate close relationships with entrepreneurs, collaborators, and limited partners.
Westlake’s visionary founders saw the opportunity to expand the life science ecosystem in Los Angeles and established the firm as a cornerstone of our strategy to accomplish this. Since that time, we’ve welcomed numerous industry peers to our complementary community and continued playing a pivotal role in LA’s growth to global biotech prominence.
Whether we’re making an impact for patients at home in California or elsewhere across the world, we stay true to these principles:
Our Core Values
Put People First
We incubate companies by empowering people who have a vision
It Takes a Village
Our entrepreneurs are not alone in their endeavor
See It Through
Our entrepreneurs have enough opiners, we roll up our sleeves to help
Be Engaged
We want to be the first phone call, good news or bad
Patients Are Our North Star
We share a collective vision with our companies to benefit patients by discovering and developing life-saving medicines
What We Stand For
Vision
Investing in people to build breakthrough medicines.
Mission
To enable the breakthroughs patients need most by investing in the right people and connecting them with innovation, capital, and community.