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Frank Westermann · the healthcare founder-turned-investor backing digital-health founders in diabetes & cardiometabolic care
Frank Westermann is a healthcare entrepreneur and investor in Encinitas, backing digital-health founders with a focus on diabetes and cardiometabolic conditions — a founder who's been on both sides of the table.
Who he is
Founder-to-founder, not vendor-to-prospect
Frank built in diabetes digital health and now invests in healthcare founders. PJ runs SideGuy from North County building the custom software + automation layer for operators. The overlap: every digital-health founder Frank backs needs that operator layer built — and I'm a clean, no-lock-in resource he can point them to.
What a SideGuy does for Frank
Where an operator-builder can actually help
- For your portfolio founders — The operator/automation layer (regulated software, clinical data, back-office) that every digital-health founder needs but few build well — a clean resource you can refer.
- Founder-to-founder, local — Both Encinitas, both built things. Happy to compare notes on the operator side of a digital-health build.
- No-lock-in, operator-honest — Not an agency. The kind of resource that makes you the hero for the intro and won't burn your founders.
Every founder you back needs the operator layer built. That's the part I do — and I'll make you the hero for the intro.
Want to try a tech department for an hour?
I'll give it a quick first look. No Calendly · no meeting · neighbor to neighbor.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · neighbor to neighbor.
Find Frank publicly
his work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Frank Westermann
- Company: Healthcare entrepreneur & investor · diabetes / cardiometabolic digital health · Encinitas
Same lane on SideGuy
Digital-health founders & investors
Related on SideGuy
North County coastal substrate
- The SideGuy Operator Network → the living map of every North County operator we've built a page for — you're on it
- Encinitas operator network → all the neighbors in one place
- Local NCSD → the coastal operator network
- About PJ Zonis → the single operator behind this page
- People we work with → the broader operator index