At west, we work with companies to create brand new markets and disrupt existing ones in ways never imagined. If product accelerators help companies go from concept to product, we help companies go from product all the way into people’s lives.
1. starts conversations with, “Will people care?”
2. studies the cause and effect of psychological and physiological dependencies
3. focuses on exponential growth curves over linear ones
4. skeptical optimists intent on building the future
Over the last five years, we’ve worked with dozens of companies at every stage of growth, across every sector, and we’ve met hundreds of founders and their teams. Along the way we’ve learned that if you want to invest in human ingenuity, listen for the entrepreneurs who start the conversation with “What if?” Here are some of the companies we’ve been privileged to work with:
What if the next sexual revolution was about conception not prevention?
What if we could use software and data science to give more people more access to capital?
What if we could change the way Earth looks from space by inventing a better way to feed the planet?
What if we could give all people on the planet a way to make their voices heard?
What if we could cure cancer by enlisting the nation's top researchers in an unprecedented collaboration?