New York · Seed · 8 people tracked
Also known as WORK-BENCH MANAGEMENT, LLC
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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 Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
5 people who came through Work-Bench went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 67 of 87 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×43Enterprise Software ×32SaaS ×30Developer Tools ×26Cybersecurity ×13Cloud Computing ×11Data & Infrastructure ×10Marketing Tech ×6
HQs:United States×48Switzerland×1Ireland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 33 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×142 founders×143 founders×34+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 39 founders with education data
University of California, Berkeley ×3Yale University ×3Cornell ×2New York University ×2Oregon State University ×2Stanford University ×2University of Notre Dame ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 38 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×18Business & Management ×8Engineering ×5Finance & Accounting ×4Humanities ×4Economics ×2Law ×2Politics & Policy ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 44 founders with career history
CoreOS ×3RippleMatch ×3CoinList ×2Endgame ×2FireEye ×2Square ×2Truffle Security ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 40 with degree data)
Investments · 87 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 62025 · 32024 · 62022 · 32021 · 62020 · 12019 · 12017 · 12016 · 12014 · 230 dated
Artian builds an agentic AI platform that turns complex enterprise workflows into autonomous operations with human oversight, integrating into existing platforms, controls, and legacy systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US
Keith Andrew(Executive Officer, Director)inPrashant Reddy(Executive Officer, Director)inHyman Gillman(Director)
Board seatJonathan Lehr· per SEC Form D
Alkymi provides an AI-powered platform that extracts and automates data from unstructured documents, turning it into workflow-ready data via APIs.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US
Co-investorsIntel CapitalCanaan PartnersEssence Venture Capital
Bitbison builds a system of record that captures a complete, causal history of activity across systems — from developer workstation through build to production — to enable runtime security detection, policy enforcement and audit.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Samy Al Bahra(Co-founder)Gabriel Parmer(Co-founder)
BoardSunil Dhaliwal(Director)in
Co-investorsAmplify Partners CVAmplify Partners
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)inJames W. Pomponio(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsOak HC/FTNorwest Venture Partners
GovWell provides configurable permitting and licensing software for local government, covering building permit intake, AI-assisted plan review, fee collection, and mobile field inspections in one platform.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechPropTechSaaS
Ben Cohen(Co-founder (leads Product, Engineering, Data and Design))inTroy LeCaire(Co-founder (leads Sales, Business Development, and Deployment))in
Co-investorsInsight Partners
Mixpeek provides a multimodal AI data platform for advertising technology companies to analyze images, videos, audio, and text content for contextual targeting, creative performance attribution, brand safety, and audience insights.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsESSENCE VCEssence Venture Capital
Pace enables B2B software companies to combine product-led growth with enterprise sales by making real-time customer usage data accessible and actionable for revenue teams.
Marketing TechSaaSSales TechNew York City, US
Justin Dignelli(Founder and CEO)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorpSequoia CapitalAlley Robotics VenturesThrive Capital
Work-Bench is a New York City seed-stage venture capital fund that invests in early-stage founders building enterprise, SaaS, and infrastructure software, with a focus on go-to-market support.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Gil BanyasinGal LelloucheinVita Mallela(CEO)inMalavika Reddy(CTO)in
Co-investorsJanuary VenturesOutlander VCRed Bike CapitalIronGate Capital AdvisorsLevel Ventures
DryRun Security offers an AI-native code security platform that builds a contextual model of a codebase to detect exploitable vulnerabilities, guide remediation, and enforce security policies across human- and AI-generated code.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsAustin, US
Ken Johnson(Founder)inJames Wickett(Founder)inKenny Johnson(Director)
BoardCreighton Hicks(Director)in
Board seatKelley Mak· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCannage CapitalLiveOak Venture PartnersLiveOak Ventures
GovWell builds an AI-based operating system for local government permitting, licensing, planning and code enforcement.
New York, US
Troy LeCaire(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ben Cohen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBienville CapitalInsight Partners
RippleMatch is a job-matching platform that connects students and early-career candidates with roles suited to their skills, background, and goals, replacing mass applications with recruiter matches.
Future of WorkHR TechMarketplacesNew York, US
Andrew Myers(Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Secretary)inEric Ho(President and Chief Technology Officer)in
BoardMichael Troiano(Director)inKevin Ryan(Director)in
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAlleyCorpBullpen CapitalG20 VenturesRenegade PartnersAlley Robotics Ventures
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FireHydrant provides an incident management and reliability platform for enterprises to manage software incidents through collaboration, automation, and transparency.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Daniel Condomitti(Executive Officer, Director)inRobert Ross(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardMatthew Murphy(Director)inMark Lotke(Director)in
Board seatJonathan Lehr· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesThird Point VenturesHarmony PartnersSalesforce Ventures
Accenture is a global professional services company providing consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, including AI adoption, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation for enterprises across industries.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareDublin, IE
Julie Sweet(Chair & CEO)in
Co-investorsAngels4WomeninfoShareTeamworthy VenturesLerer Hippeau
AIR Platforms builds an AI-native credit intelligence platform that continuously re-rates public and private corporate issuers.
New York City, US
Arbi A(Founder)Joseph B(Founder)
Co-investorsLerer Hippeau
Algorithmia offers an enterprise AI platform for developing, deploying, and governing machine learning models and AI applications, with tooling tailored to roles across data science, engineering, DevOps, and IT teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US
Kenneth F. Daniel(Executive Officer, Director)Diego M. Oppenheimer(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardTimothy Porter(Director)inAnna Patterson(Director)in
Co-investorsGradient VenturesMadrona Venture GroupOUP (Osage University Partners)Norwest Venture Partners
AppMap records runtime traces—function calls, SQL queries, HTTP traffic, exceptions, and code paths—from tests and running applications in development and CI, then exposes them to coding agents over MCP and to developers as visual maps.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Elizabeth Lawler(Co-founder)inKevin Gilpin(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsArgon VenturesForgePoint CapitalDell Technologies Capital
Arthur develops an AI-powered platform that enables organizations to build and deploy immersive workflows and experiences combining synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of Work
Christoph Fleischmann(Founder)in
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesAcrew CapitalBAM ElevateGreycroftHomebrewIndex Ventures+1 more
Arthur provides AI performance monitoring, optimization, explainability, and bias mitigation solutions for enterprise customers deploying artificial intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Adam Wenchel(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardMike Volpi(Director)inTheresia Gouw(Director)inJonathan Lehr(Director)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalGreycroftHomebrewIndex Ventures
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)inJacob Moshenko(Founder)Joseph S(Founder)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGeneral CatalystY Combinator
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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)Samy Al Bahra(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardCharles Beeler(Director)Sunil Dhaliwal(Director)
Co-investorsRally Ventures Management, Llc
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
Firoz Noordeen(Founder)in
Co-investorsGlobivestGreat Stuff VenturesLerer HippeauMMC Ventures
Catalyst was a customer growth solutions platform for CS and sales teams that merged with Totango to develop enhanced customer success and sales enablement tools.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsCaesar VenturesCompoundOperator StackAMD VenturesDatabricks VenturesGeneral Catalyst+4 more
Chamelio is an AI-powered platform for in-house legal teams to manage legal playbooks, workflows, and knowledge independently, enabling rapid deployment of contract lifecycle management capabilities without requiring IT involvement.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsEmerge Venturesfresh.fund
CloudQuery provides cloud governance teams with unified visibility and management across multiple cloud providers and accounts.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsboldstart venturesPartech VenturesSierra VenturesMango Capital
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for enterprise applications that require high availability and global scalability.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Spencer Kimball(Founder)inPeter Mattis(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementFirstMark CapitalG SquaredGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelIndex Ventures+11 more
cofounders.nyc is a curated New York City platform and in-person community for finding cofounders and early team members.
CoreOS developed container-focused infrastructure software, including the lightweight Container Linux operating system, the etcd distributed key-value store, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Alex Polvi(Founder/CEO)inBrandon Philips(Director)in
BoardDave Munichiello(Director)inMichael Abbott(Director)
Co-investorsGV (Google Ventures)Intel CapitalKleiner PerkinsY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzSequoia Capital
Courier provides a notification platform that delivers messages to Slack and Teams with customizable routing, authentication, and multi-channel capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Troy Goode(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersMatrixY CombinatorNorwest Venture PartnersOak HC/FTSaas Ventures, L.L.C.+1 more
Detect publishes a newsletter focused on software problem detection, covering topics such as production incidents, root cause analysis, memory profiling, and Kafka monitoring for software engineers.
CybersecurityDeveloper Tools
DevArmor provides real-time application security feedback inside developer tools, catching design flaws and reviewing code changes against a team's architecture and security requirements before issues reach production.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Julian Mehnle(Founder)inAmir Kavousian(Founder)in
Co-investorsAviso Ventures
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)inJohn Rector(Director)inBrian Peterson(Chief Technology Officer & Founder)inLily Toy(Executive Officer)inDan O'Connell(Director)in
BoardMark Shulgan(Director)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAtomicCerity Partners VenturesFelicis VenturesFly Ventures+13 more
The University of Maryland is a public land-grant research institution that provides teaching, research, and service to advance knowledge in areas of importance to the state, nation, and world.
EdTechCollege Park, US
Co-investorsUniversity System of Maryland Momentum Fund
Earthly develops Lunar, a platform that converts postmortem findings, engineering standards, and compliance docs into automated guardrails enforced on every pull request across an organization's repositories.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Vlad A. Ionescu(Founder)in
Co-investorsSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)468 CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersUncorrelated Ventures
Towards Data Science is a publication and community platform founded in 2016 that hosts articles, newsletters, and content focused on data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence for practitioners and learners.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechMedia & Entertainment
Flockshop provides AI-generated product imagery that lets online shoppers visualize items on themselves or on matching models while keeping a brand's styling and aesthetic consistent.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Manvitha Mallela(Founder)in
Co-investorsDorm RoomRed Swan VenturesThe MBA FundAndreessen HorowitzBedrock CapitalFounders Fund+7 more
Git AI provides analytics and observability for AI-generated code throughout the software development lifecycle, tracking what code is committed, passes review, and remains in production.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Goodfire is a research company developing interpretability tools to understand and design AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Tom McGrath(Director)inDaniel Balsam(Director)inEric Ho(Executive Officer, Director)inDaniel Kang(Director)
BoardDeedy Das(Director)inNnamdi Iregbulem(Director)in
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCompoundJuniper Ventures Management, LlcLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Ventures+5 more
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GovWell builds software that helps local governments modernize their permitting, planning, and service delivery processes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaSNew York, US
Ben(Co-Founder)Troy(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsInsight PartnersFractal SoftwareBienville Capital
Carnegie Mellon University is a research university offering academics across disciplines including engineering, computer science, arts, and policy, with notable programs in AI, robotics, and data science.
EdTechPittsburgh, US
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)inErik Yao(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Array Ventures Management LlcBowery CapitalCounterpart VenturesCrosslink CapitalFunction Ventures+6 more
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
Bob Young(Co-Founder, President, Chairman & CEO (1993-1999))Marc Ewing(Co-Founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer)James M. (Jim) Whitehurst(President and Chief Executive Officer)Paul J. Cormier(Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies (2019); later CEO (2020-2022) and Chairman)Eric R. Shander(Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer)DeLisa K. Alexander(Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer)
Co-investorsBallistic VenturesGreylock PartnersIntel CorporationLobby CapitalMenlo VenturesToba Capital
Metric Insights, founded in 2012, provides a business intelligence portal that centralizes analytics assets into a curated, searchable catalog with governance and persona-based customization.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Marius Moscovici(Executive Officer, Director)inStephen Mock(Executive Officer)
BoardJosh Kopelman(Director)Jonathan Temple(Director)
Co-investorsMindset Venture
Angel investor who invests in data, developer tools, and security companies at seed and Series A stages, as well as in micro funds.
Media & Entertainment
HPE subsidiary building all-flash and hybrid flash storage arrays with InfoSight predictive analytics for data centers.
Spring, US
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersArtis VenturesAsset Management CompanyiGlobe PartnersKleiner PerkinsMenlo Ventures+2 more
Paratus builds AI software that automates administrative and busywork tasks for U.S. military operational teams.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTech
Co-investorsBling CapitalTeamworthy Ventures
Peerbound is an AI platform that finds customer proof across call recordings, reviews, and other customer voice channels, then generates customer stories and slides and delivers relevant proof points to sales reps via Slack and email.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales Tech
Co-investorsBling CapitalExpansion Venture Capitalm]x[v Capital
Permiso offers an identity security posture management platform that inventories human and non-human identities across cloud environments (identity providers, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and assesses their exposure to compromise.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMclean, US
Paul Nguyen(Co-Founder, Co-CEO)inJason Martin(Co-Founder, Co-CEO)inSanjeev Williams(SVP of Product Management)inJared Elder(VP of Marketing)inTin Huu Nguyen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Erik Kriessmann(Director)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalaVenturePoint72 VenturesVertex VenturesAltimeter Capital
Petra Labs offers a platform and managed service that tracks a brand's visibility, ranking, sentiment, and citations across AI search engines, then executes content, media, and attribution work to grow AI-referred traffic and revenue.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Sami Akkawi(Founder)in
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
Chris Lau(Founder/CEO)inDaniel Lau(Founder/CTO)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorLocus Ventures
Heavy Lifting LLC is a private investment company that acquires, develops, and holds digital assets such as premium domain registrations and intellectual property.
Crypto & Web3Media & Entertainment
Co-investorsScript CapitalOperator PartnersRuntime Ventures
Prequel provides distributed detection software for finding and fixing reliability and security risks across application stacks.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US
Tony Meehan(Founder)inConor McCarter(Founder)inTimur Khabirov(Founder)in
Co-investorsNextView VenturesOperator PartnersRuntime VenturesScript CapitalStage 2 CapitalY Combinator
Indian instant home-services platform connecting households with trained, verified professionals for cleaning, laundry and chores.
Co-investorsTau VenturesBain Capital VenturesEpiq CapitalGeneral CatalystLachy Groom
Ravel converts textile waste into purified recycled material feedstocks through a proprietary closed-loop process that maintains fiber integrity without energy-intensive depolymerization or downcycling.
Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
Zahlen Titcomb(CEO)inJohn Goods(CTO)inKristen Albrecht(COO)in
Co-investorsAt One VenturesBetterway VenturesClimate CapitalCollaborative FundCollateral GoodNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Rediem provides a loyalty and engagement platform that lets brands turn sustainability and impact actions into customer rewards, letting shoppers track eco-metrics, take sustainable actions, and redeem rewards for local nonprofits.
Impact & Social GoodMarketing TechSaaS
Regan Jayne(Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
Runhouse builds Kubetorch, a Pythonic serverless interface for running, building, and deploying machine learning workloads on Kubernetes directly from Python.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsHetz VenturesBlackstoneCoatue ManagementMGX
Semmle built a semantic code analysis engine that lets developers and security researchers write declarative queries to find vulnerabilities and code patterns across large codebases.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsOxford
Oegerikus de Moor(Executive Officer, Director)Oege de Moor(Founder)in
BoardJoseph C. M. Hall(Director)
Co-investorsAccel
ShiftRx is a staffing platform that connects pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with per diem shifts and full-time roles, while helping pharmacies and staffing agencies fill open shifts and manage provider placements.
HealthtechHR TechMarketplaces
Autumn-Kyoko Cushman(Cofounder)inLeann Haddad(Cofounder)in
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Co-investorsInflect HealthTau Ventures
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Shipyard automates the provisioning and management of software environments across the development lifecycle, from development to production.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSNew York, US
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersHeavybit
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FireHydrant provides an all-in-one incident management platform for development teams to manage on-call scheduling, automate incident response workflows, and conduct post-incident retrospectives.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsHarmony PartnersJ12 Ventures
Socure provides an AI-driven platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk decisioning, serving enterprises and government agencies across financial services, gaming, healthcare, e-commerce, and other sectors.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechNew York, US
John Ayers(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardJohn F. Frankel(Director)inSunil Madhu(Executive Officer, Director)inAlessandro Piol(Director)Pavlo Protopapa(Director)Philip Eytan(Director)
Co-investorsAccelAlpha PartnersAltaIR CapitalAmity VenturesCommerce VenturesConnectivity Ventures+17 more
Spring provides on-chain token distribution and vesting tools for Web3 communities, supporting complex vesting schedules (cliffs, daily, monthly, multi-period), automated token allocation calculations, wallet collection, and a decentralized claim portal.
Crypto & Web3FintechMarketplacesSaaS
Sebastian Almnes(Founder)in
Co-investorsSkyfall VenturesSNÖ VenturesKraken VenturesSondo CapitalAble PartnersGeneration Investment Management+7 more
Spring Health is an AI-native platform delivering personalized mental health support through self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care for employers, health plans, and individuals.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMental Health
Co-investorsAble PartnersEQUIAMGingerbread CapitalKicker VenturesKinnevikNorthzone+4 more
Tamr provides a multi-domain master data management platform that unifies and manages multiple core business entities such as customers, suppliers, products, and locations within a single system.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Andy Palmer(Founder & CEO)inMichael Stonebraker(Co-Founder and Turing Award Winner)
Co-investorsDcode CapitalFoothill VenturesGranite HillGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelMassMutual Ventures+7 more
Tilt is an open-source developer toolkit for microservice development that provides smart rebuilds, live updates, and automated workflows across local and Kubernetes environments.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsContour Venture Partners
Uplevel Security is a New York cybersecurity company offering a graph- and machine-learning-based adaptive incident response platform.
New York, US
Elisabeth Maida(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardChris Fralic(Director)in
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersAspect VenturesFirst Round Capital
Varick Agents is an applied AI company that builds and deploys custom AI agent systems inside enterprise operations.
San Francisco, US
Vas M(Founder)
Versive is an AI-moderated research platform that conducts interviews, surveys, and usability tests with real users and synthetic personas, automatically transcribing, probing, and synthesizing findings into reports.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
David Correa Orozco(Founder)inEric Li(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorBloomberg BetaMadrona Venture Group
A U.S. software provider serving commercial real estate professionals with a leasing and asset management platform.
PropTech
Nick Romito(Founder)inBrandon WeberDonald DeSantisKarl BaumRyan Masiello
Co-investors500 GlobalAlate PartnersBessemer Venture PartnersBling CapitalCamber CreekOpenView Venture Partners+7 more
Viso.ai offers a computer vision platform with two products: Visonow, a tool to build vision agents from a text prompt and video, and Visosuite, an enterprise operating system to connect cameras across sites and run governed, agentic vision workflows at scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSchaffhausen, CH
Declan F(Founder)Gaudenz Boesch(Founder)inNico Klingler(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelBain Capital VenturesCisco InvestmentsLytical VenturesSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Sierra Ventures
VISO TRUST is an AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM) platform that helps security teams assess and monitor vendor cyber risk across 3rd, 4th, and nth parties.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Paul Valente(Founder)in
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsGTM CapitalLytical VenturesRecall CapitalSierra VenturesStoneMill Ventures+1 more
Wabbi provides a continuous security platform that quantifies application security risk in real time by aggregating vulnerability, compliance, and policy data across development pipelines.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBoston, US
Brittany(Founder & CEO)Phil(CTO)Kim(CFO)
Co-investorsaVentureCisco InvestmentsEmmeline VenturesMendoza VenturesUnderscore VC
ZippedScript offers AI-based technology for processing verifications, aiming for fast turnaround times.
AI & Machine Learning
Chris Harperin
Co-investorsNew Stack Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Batch.sh Inc.Leap TechnologiesPetricorp, Inc.SKUSolverValente Sherman, Inc.email wastelandFlock AIHPE Aruba NetworkingMedialakeOpenOpsPatientRunhouseSeeMetrics
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.
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Prequel · variety.com · Sep 15, 2026
Discovery Fund · mesabitribune.com · Aug 29, 2026
Tilt · retailtechinnovationhub.com · Aug 20, 2026
Accenture · marketbeat.com · Aug 19, 2026
Flock · arstechnica.com · Aug 17, 2026
Patient · pymnts.com · Aug 17, 2026
Spring · kjrh.com · Aug 16, 2026
Run · databricks.com · Aug 12, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Work-Bench made?
- Work-Bench has 62 tracked investments, 11 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
- 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 $1M – $3M.
- 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.
- Who does Work-Bench co-invest with?
- Work-Bench most often shares deals with Menlo Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Amplify Partners, among 141 tracked co-investors.
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)
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BCV Labs is the platform and hands-on support arm of Bain Capital Ventures, providing portfolio founders with go-to-market strategy, brand development, hiring assistance, and customer introductions.
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative, early-stage AI companies across every layer of the modern AI stack, from applications and middleware to data infrastructure and foundation models.
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning since its early days, building a global portfolio of more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
Tiger Global Management operates public equity strategies (long/short, long-focused and crossover) and a private equity business investing in early- through late-stage growth companies across new and existing industries.
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm that backs technical founders — engineers, researchers, and scientists — building companies across AI/ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, and life sciences.
Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in first-principles founders, backing companies from inception through Series A across AI infrastructure, applied/vertical AI, deep tech, and physical/embodied AI.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm operating as a partnership focused on company building and accelerating the growth of the businesses it backs.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs across enterprise, consumer, and healthcare sectors from early stages through growth.
Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that backs companies from Seed to IPO and beyond, including through its dedicated seed fund Index Origin.
Norwest Venture Partners is an investment firm whose growth equity team backs private, profitable, fast-growing companies, providing capital and hands-on support through its 'invited guest' approach.
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