Westlake Venture Partners

Westlake Venture Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm established in 2001 by the four original founders of NetZero, the consumer internet service provider, to support young and emerging companies in building and scaling their businesses. The firm invests in and advises early-stage and growth-stage companies through a range of instruments, drawing on its founders' entrepreneurial experience and operational backgrounds in consumer internet and technology. The firm brings both capital and hands-on guidance to portfolio companies, with a track record rooted in the founding team's experience growing NetZero from startup to a publicly listed company.