Westlake BioPartners
Los Angeles life science venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and helps create biotech companies from ideation through clinical development and commercialization.
Westlake BioPartners is a life science venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, that both invests in entrepreneurs and helps create biotechnology companies. Its scope spans the full arc of drug development: ideation and preclinical research, clinical development, and commercialization. The firm describes its purpose as enabling breakthroughs by connecting the right people with innovation, capital, and community, with patient needs held as the central purpose of company building.
Operating characteristics are as much a part of the strategy as sector selection. Westlake BioPartners positions itself as a hands-on partner to founders rather than an advice-only investor, connecting entrepreneurs with collaborators and phase-appropriate R&D resources. The firm is intentionally scaled to preserve close relationships and personal attention, and it states a set of guiding values: community, transparency, trust, forethought, and follow-through. A people-first belief - that individuals are the most valuable asset in bringing medicines to patients - underpins both its investing and its company-building work.
The team brings combined investment, scientific, and operational experience, reflecting the firm's dual role as investor and company creator across the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare sectors.