# Sean E. Harper

> Sean E. Harper is a Series A investor at Westlake Village BioPartners backing Medical. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Westlake Village BioPartners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westlake-village-biopartners)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-harper-8a2a8a177

Sean E. Harper is a Series A investor at Westlake Village BioPartners in Los Angeles focused on Medical and Health Care. Dr. Harper joined Amgen in 2002 as vice president, Development, and has held several leadership roles, including heading the establishment of Amgen's Medical Sciences capability, a translational medicine group focused on biomarker discovery, development, and integration into early phase clinical studies. Dr. Harper served as vice president ofGlobal Regulatory Affairs and Safety before assuming the role of senior vice president of Global Development and Corporate Chief Medical Officer. He became executive vice president, Research and Development in February 2012.Prior to joining Amgen, Dr. Harper was senior director of clinical genomics at Merck Research Laboratories. He attended medical school at the University of California at San Francisco, completed internal medicine and gastroenterology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Phillip A. Sharp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 1 | 50% |
| Health Care | 1 | 50% |
| Life Science | 1 | 50% |
| Therapeutics | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Latigo Biotherapeutics | Operator of a drug discovery company intended to develop novel, non-opioid therapies for chronic pain. The company utilizes unique, translated insights to provide a differentiated approach to targeting therapeutics across the blood-nerve barrier, enabling patients to get access to a pain management therapy that does not create addiction, dependenceor tolerability. | $135M | Series A | Feb 14, 2024 |  |
| Dantari | Developer of a pharmaceutical platform and drugs created for the treatment of the central nervous system. The company's platform and therapies specialize in the research and development of small and large molecule therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier, enabling clients to have rapidly advance therapies to treat the patients and providemeaningful medical improvement in their lives. | $47M | Series A | Dec 08, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Corner Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corner-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [5AM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/5am-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alexandria Venture Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandria-venture-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caltech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caltech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Foresite Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foresite-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Westlake Village BioPartners

VC Fund · Westlake Village, United States

Westlake Village BioPartners is a venture capital firm focused on incubating and building life sciences companies with entrepreneurs that have the potential to bring transformative therapies and technologies to patients. The Westlake model is built on the founding team’s unique experience in successfully identifying and developing breakthroughtherapies and building organizations.

2 contacts available at Westlake Village BioPartners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sean E. Harper | Managing Partner | — |
| Beth Seidenberg | Managing Director | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Sean E. Harper invest in?

Sean E. Harper invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Life Science startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Sean E. Harper last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sean E. Harper closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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