Work-Bench
Venture capitalNew York · Seed · 9 people tracked
Also known as WORK-BENCH MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Work-Bench is an NYC seed fund focused on founders with enterprise ambitions. It backs early, conviction-driven founders building the next generation of enterprise, SaaS, and infrastructure software across AI/ML, cybersecurity, dev tools, and enterprise applications. The firm emphasizes that go-to-market is a startup's moat, providing 0-to-1 GTM support, battle-tested playbooks, an enterprise community, and access to strategic enterprise customers. Rooted in NYC, Work-Bench leverages its network of fast-growth companies and Fortune 500 buyers to help founders from day one.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 27 of 84 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×18Enterprise Software ×16Developer Tools ×13SaaS ×10Cloud Computing ×6Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4Cybersecurity ×3
HQs:United States×26
Investments · 84 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathArtian builds a platform for developing and deploying agentic AI systems to automate critical enterprise workflows, positioning itself as a replacement for traditional RPA.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US
Keith Andrew(Executive Officer, Director)Prashant Reddy(Executive Officer, Director)Hyman Gillman(Director)Vadim Strizhevsky
Board seatJonathan Lehr· per SEC Form D
Courier Health provides a software platform for biopharma companies to manage and optimize patient engagement and support throughout the treatment journey.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSNew York City, US
Danny Sigurdson(CEO)James W. Pomponio(Executive Officer, Director)
Chattanooga, US
Board seatKelley Mak· per SEC Form D · $7.2M raise · filed Jul 2022
Austin, US
Kenny Johnson(Director)James Hagan Wickett(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardCreighton Hicks(Director)
Board seatKelley Mak· per SEC Form D
New York, US
Daniel Condomitti(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Murphy(Director)Robert Ross(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMark Lotke(Director)
Board seatJonathan Lehr· per SEC Form D
New York, US
Troy LeCaire(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ben Cohen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D
San Mateo, US
Erik Yao(Executive Officer, Director)Raymond Lau(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPhilip Boyer(Director)
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D · $3M raise · filed Dec 2024
New York, US
Jonathan Lehr(Director)Jacob P. Moshenko(Executive Officer, Director)Joseph Schorr(Director)James A. Zelinskie III(Director)
Board seatJonathan Lehr· per SEC Form D · $3.9M raise · filed Mar 2021
RippleMatch is a job matching platform that connects candidates with relevant job opportunities based on their skills, background, and career goals.
B2B MarketplacesHR Tech
Michael Troiano(Director)Andrew Myers(Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Secretary)Eric Ho(President and Chief Technology Officer)
BoardKevin Ryan(Director)
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D
New York, US
Rafal Stapinski(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)John Paul Gschwind(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D · $4.3M raise · filed Jan 2025
San Geronimo, US
Paul Valente(Executive Officer, Director)Russell Sherman(Director)Kelley Mak(Director)Enrique Salem(Director)
Board seatKelley Mak· per SEC Form D · $11M raise · filed Dec 2021
FireHydrant is an incident management platform that provides on-call and alerting, automated runbooks, a service catalog, status pages, and AI-enriched retrospectives and analytics to help engineering and reliability teams respond to and resolve incidents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Seattle, US
Kenneth F. Daniel(Executive Officer, Director)Timothy Porter(Director)Diego M. Oppenheimer(Executive Officer, Director)Anna Patterson(Director)
Arthur provides AI performance monitoring, optimization, explainability, and bias mitigation solutions for enterprise customers deploying artificial intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Mike Volpi(Director)Adam Wenchel(Executive Officer, Director)
AuthZed provides authorization infrastructure that automatically evaluates access permissions based on team and organizational hierarchies, eliminating the need for manual permission syncing and background jobs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Jake Moshenko(Founder)inJimmy Zelinskie(Founder)inJoseph Schorr(Founder)in
Backtrace provides error management and crash reporting software for development, support, and QA teams.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGamingNew York, US
Abel Punnittethu Mathew(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Beeler(Director)Sunil Dhaliwal(Director)Samy Al Bahra(Executive Officer, Director)
Built AI provides an AI-native operating system for institutional real estate that consolidates deal, property management, and financial data into a unified knowledge graph.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePropTech
CloudQuery provides multi-cloud visibility and automation for platform and governance teams, letting them query their cloud estate via SQL or natural language across AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for enterprise applications that require high availability and global scalability.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes-based container platform for building and deploying cloud-native and modernized applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Alex Polvi(Founder/CEO)inDave Munichiello(Director)Michael Abbott(Director)Brandon Philips(Director)
Dialpad provides a platform that transforms customer conversations into actionable intelligence for businesses.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Ramon, US
Craig Walker(Chief Executive Officer & Founder)Lily Toy(Executive Officer)Mark Shulgan(Director)Marc Andreessen(Director)John Rector(Director)John Kim(Director)
College Park, US
Goodfire is a research company developing interpretability tools to understand and design AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Deedy Das(Director)Nnamdi Iregbulem(Director)Daniel Kang(Director)Tom McGrath(Director)Daniel Balsam(Director)Eric Ho(Executive Officer, Director)
Leapfin provides AI-powered infrastructure for revenue accounting and financial reporting, automating the reconciliation between billing systems and accounting to handle complex subscription and usage-based billing models.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Ray Lau(CEO)Erik
Red Hat develops open source hybrid cloud software solutions including Linux, AI platforms, virtualization, and automation tools for enterprise organizations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRaleigh, US
Precious is a photo editing and curation app for parents that automatically enhances iPhone photos of babies and children with frames, stickers, and creative artwork, and generates time-lapse videos to capture growth milestones.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomySocialSan Francisco, US
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Work-Bench invest at?
- Work-Bench invests at the Seed stage.
- What is Work-Bench's typical check size?
- Work-Bench typically writes checks of $2M – $4M.
- What sectors does Work-Bench focus on?
- Work-Bench focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Work-Bench located?
- Work-Bench is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Work-Bench lead rounds?
- Yes, Work-Bench leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamThe Rise of Work-Bench: Inside the $375M Enterprise Fund w/ Jonathan Lehr
The Rise w/ Alex Klein · Jonathan Lehr
Bloomberg Cornell Tech Series: Jessica Lin, General Partner & co-founder, Work-Bench
Inside Bloomberg · Jessica Lin
Work-Bench Ventures - Kelley Mak - ESW #216
Security Weekly - A CRA Resource · Kelley Mak
How I Raised My First Dollar with Jonathan Lehr | Work-Bench
BAM · Jonathan Lehr
Jan 2019 NYETM - Fireside chat w/ David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz) & Jonathan Lehr (Work-Bench)
Work-Bench · Jonathan Lehr
Jonathan Lehr, Work-Bench | Inforum 2016
SiliconANGLE theCUBE · Jonathan Lehr
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Co-investors · 86
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Andreessen Horowitz's Strategic Partnerships page describes collaborations that connect its portfolio companies with established institutions to help scale and deploy their technology.
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Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders across the globe, investing in the people behind ideas from early through later stages.
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Oak HC/FT is a growth equity firm that partners with founders building companies in healthcare and financial services, with a focus on enterprise technology and AI.
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Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in technical founders — engineers, researchers, and scientists — building applications, AI models, developer tools, and infrastructure since 2012.
Acrew Capital is a venture capital firm that emphasizes a team-based approach to investing, offering portfolio companies access to its full team.
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Firms observed investing alongside Work-Bench, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Work-Bench's recorded portfolio.
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