New 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 25, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Work-Bench went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 58 of 79 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×38Developer Tools ×24Enterprise Software ×23SaaS ×20Cybersecurity ×10Cloud Computing ×9Data & Infrastructure ×9Marketing Tech ×5
HQs:United States×43Ireland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 28 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×152 founders×73 founders×54+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with education data
Yale University ×3New York University ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2University of Notre Dame ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 27 founders with career history
CoreOS ×2RippleMatch ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
2 founders hold a PhD · 3 hold an MBA (of 28 with degree data)
Investments · 79 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 52025 · 22024 · 22022 · 12021 · 52019 · 12016 · 12014 · 219 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)James W. Pomponio(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsOak HC/FTNorwest Venture Partners
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)
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
Chattanooga, US
Board seatKelley Mak· per SEC Form D · $7.2M raise · filed Jul 2022
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
James Hagan Wickett(Executive Officer, Director)Ken Johnson(Founder)inJames Wickett(Founder)inKenny Johnson(Director)
BoardCreighton Hicks(Director)
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)
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBienville CapitalInsight Partners
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 software company offering APIs that let developers store, compute and validate application permissions in one place.
New York, US
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 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)
BoardMichael Troiano(Director)inKevin Ryan(Director)in
Board seatJessica Lin· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAlleyCorpBullpen CapitalG20 VenturesRenegade PartnersAlley Robotics Ventures
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
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)Robert Ross(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMatthew Murphy(Director)inMark Lotke(Director)in
Board seatJonathan Lehr· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesThird Point VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersCraft VenturesHarmony PartnersSalesforce Ventures+1 more
San Geronimo, US
Paul Valente(Executive Officer, Director)Russell Sherman(Director)
BoardEnrique Salem(Director)in
Board seatKelley Mak· per SEC Form D · $11M raise · filed Dec 2021
Co-investorsBain Capital 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)
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 is a developer tool that instruments applications to capture real-time code execution, data flow, and behavior for runtime-aware code review and debugging.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Elizabeth Lawler(Founder)inKevin Gilpin(Founder)in
Co-investorsArgon VenturesForgePoint CapitalDell Technologies Capital
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
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 platform for in-house legal teams that turns contracts, playbooks, drafts, and past decisions into structured legal knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsEmerge Venturesfresh.fund
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
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)
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementFirstMark CapitalG SquaredGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelIndex Ventures+4 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)
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/FT
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 connects to issue trackers to analyze development tickets in context, adding security recommendations and automatically generating threat models, controls, and guardrails for both human developers and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
AmirJulian 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)Brian Peterson(Chief Technology Officer & Founder)inLily Toy(Executive Officer)Dan O'Connell(Director)
BoardMark Shulgan(Director)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAtomicCerity Partners VenturesFelicis VenturesFly Ventures+13 more
University of Maryland early-stage fund investing up to $1M a year in tech startups based in Prince George's County.
College Park, US
Co-investorsUniversity System of Maryland Momentum Fund
Earthly offers Lunar, a platform that converts engineering standards, compliance mandates, and incident-response actions into deterministic guardrails enforced across pull requests and CI/CD pipelines for both human-written and AI-generated code.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Vlad A. Ionescu(Founder)in
Co-investorsSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)468 CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersUncorrelated Ventures
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
Flock AI is a New York-based AI visual commerce platform generating brand-accurate product imagery for fashion and retail brands.
Git AI builds a Git extension and observability stack that tracks AI-generated code from prompt to production, linking each line to the agent, model, and prompt that created it.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Goodfire is a research company developing interpretability tools to understand and design AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Tom McGrath(Director)Daniel Balsam(Director)inEric Ho(Executive Officer, Director)inDaniel Kang(Director)
BoardDeedy Das(Director)Nnamdi Iregbulem(Director)in
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCompoundJuniper Ventures Management, LlcLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Ventures+5 more
GovWell provides an AI-powered software platform for municipal and county governments to manage processes such as permitting, licensing, planning and zoning, and code enforcement, and to let residents access services and make payments online.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechSaaS
HPE Aruba Networking, formerly Aruba Networks, is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's enterprise wired, wireless and security networking unit.
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersArtis VenturesAsset Management CompanyGolub GrowthICCP Venture PartnersiGlobe Partners+6 more
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)Erik 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
Enterprise platform that overlays a brand's existing stack to track creative asset usage, performance and licensing compliance.
Metric Insights offers Concierge, an agent harness that connects large language models to analytics resources such as certified reports, semantic models, cloud database agents, a business glossary, and KPI monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Marius Moscovici(Executive Officer, Director)Stephen Mock(Executive Officer)
BoardJosh Kopelman(Director)Jonathan Temple(Director)
Co-investorsMindset Venture
This is a personal blog by a Chief Product Officer writing about AI, open-source startups, SaaS business models, and company case studies such as Talend and MongoDB.
Media & Entertainment
HPE subsidiary building all-flash and hybrid flash storage arrays with InfoSight predictive analytics for data centers.
Spring, US
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAsset Management CompanyiGlobe PartnersKleiner PerkinsMenlo VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+1 more
Paratus builds AI software that automates administrative and busywork tasks for U.S. military operational teams.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTech
Co-investorsTeamworthy Ventures
Grand Rapids medical device startup behind SimPull, a powered device for lateral patient transfer and repositioning.
Grand Rapids, US
Andrew Heuerman(Manager)
Co-investorsTarget Global8VCBling CapitalFirstLook PartnersMax VenturesOak HC/FT+2 more
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-investorsm]x[v Capital
Permiso provides identity security for AI agents, offering runtime attribution that tracks agent activity after authentication, including tool calls, MCP invocations, and sub-agent spawns.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMclean, US
Paul Nguyen(Founder)inJason Lawrence Martin(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Tin Huu Nguyen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Erik Kriessmann(Director)
Co-investors11.2 CapitalaVenturePoint72 VenturesVertex VenturesAltimeter Capital
Petra provides an AI search marketing platform combined with an embedded expert team, tracking brand presence, sentiment, and competitive position across major AI platforms and offering answer engine optimization (AEO) services.
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
Indian instant home-services platform connecting households with trained, verified professionals for cleaning, laundry and chores.
Co-investorsTau Ventures
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
Runhouse built Kubetorch, a Kubernetes-native distributed framework for enterprise ML and reinforcement learning post-training.
Israeli cybersecurity performance management platform that turns security stack data into real-time metrics for CISOs.
Co-investors8VC
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
Oege de Moor(Founder)inOegerikus de Moor(Executive Officer, Director)Joseph 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)Leann Haddad(Cofounder)
Co-investorsInflect HealthTau Ventures
Shipyard is an ephemeral environment platform that automatically spins up full-stack, isolated copies of an application for every pull request or branch, hydrated with fresh data.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersHeavybit
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
Co-investorsHarmony Partners
SKUsafe is a product lifecycle and compliance platform for food, beverage, and supplement makers, combining formulation, nutrition/label fact panels, supplier sourcing, quality management (CAPA, forms), and stage-gated approvals in one system.
Enterprise SoftwareFoodTechSaaS
JP Gschwind(Founder)in
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)inPhilip Eytan(Director)Samuel Leinhardt(Director)Oscar Salazar(Director)
BoardJohn F. Frankel(Director)inSunil Madhu(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsAccelAlpha PartnersAltaIR CapitalAmity VenturesCommerce VenturesConnectivity Ventures+15 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
April Koh(Founder)in
Co-investorsAble PartnersEQUIAMGingerbread CapitalKicker VenturesKinnevikNorthzone+4 more
Tamr provides an AI-native master data management (MDM) platform that unifies, cleans, and enriches enterprise data in real time.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
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)
Co-investorsContour Venture Partners
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 BaumNicholas RomitoRyan Masiello
Co-investors500 GlobalAlate PartnersBessemer Venture PartnersBling CapitalCamber CreekOpenView Venture Partners+7 more
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
ZippedScript offers AI-based technology for processing verifications, aiming for fast turnaround times.
AI & Machine Learning
Chris Harperin
Co-investorsNew Stack Ventures
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 companiesTilt · retailtechinnovationhub.com · Aug 20, 2026
Accenture · marketbeat.com · Aug 19, 2026
Flock · arstechnica.com · Aug 17, 2026
Patient · pymnts.com · Aug 17, 2026
Run · databricks.com · Aug 12, 2026
Catalyst · techcrunch.com · Aug 11, 2026
Permiso · thecyberwire.com · Aug 5, 2026
Paratus · investing.com · Jul 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Work-Bench made?
- Work-Bench has 63 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 3 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 139 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)
Work-Bench · Jonathan Lehr
Jonathan Lehr, Work-Bench | Inforum 2016
SiliconANGLE theCUBE · Jonathan Lehr
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Co-investors · 86
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.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs across enterprise, consumer, and healthcare sectors from early stages through growth.
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.
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.
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.
Oak HC/FT is a growth equity firm that partners with founders building companies in healthcare and financial services, leveraging sector expertise and networks.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders across sectors, emphasizing investing in companies before they gain wider recognition.
Contour Venture Partners is a New York City-based seed stage venture capital firm founded in 2005, focused on the NYC technology ecosystem.
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General Catalyst is a venture capital firm operating as a partnership focused on company building and accelerating the growth of the businesses it backs.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
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.
▶74 more co-investors
Notable CapitalTiger Global ManagementRRE VenturesMadrona Venture GroupAcrew CapitalSierra VenturesIntel CapitalWingAltimeter CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersBain Capital VenturesCanaan PartnersFirstMark CapitalPartech VenturesGreycroftBullpen CapitalTrinity VenturesTwo Sigma VenturesAltaIR CapitalHomebrewboldstart venturesRenegade PartnersMouro CapitalCisco InvestmentsCommerce VenturesAmasiaG20 VenturesCerity Partners VenturesFlint CapitalLiveOak VenturesKinnevikLytical VenturesNew Stack VenturesRedpoint VenturesBenchmarkUberSpark CapitalHCVCAME Cloud VenturesPioneerStellar CapitalAfore CapitalBond Capital ManagementResolute VenturesF-Prime CapitalTodd and Rahul’s Angel FundIA VenturesDCM VenturesHanabi CapitalBanana CapitalHustle FundOperator CollectiveZetta Venture PartnersTribeca Venture PartnersDnx VenturesHighland Capital PartnersAnthemis VentureSummit PartnersWalden InternationalBlue Owl CapitalConstruct CapitalXfundTrust FundBlu Venture InvestorsBuilders VCDVCSprout Social, Inc.Coughdrop CapitalFoundersVinyl CapitalInformation Venture PartnersCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)AlphaPrime VenturesMendoza Ventures
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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