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Engineering BYOC: Enterprise Startups Share Their Playbooks

In this interview series, we dive into how enterprise software companies approach Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments.

Priyanka Somrah

Feb 20, 2025

Fundraising Milestones To Cross the Seed to Series A Chasm in Application Software

At Work-Bench, we are laser focused on investing in the top enterprise software startups at the earliest stage and working with them to grow into the category defining companies of tomorrow.

Daniel Chesley

Feb 3, 2025

Announcing Our Investment in DryRun Security

We're excited to announce that we led DryRun Security's $8.7M seed round, alongside LiveOak Ventures and Cannage Capital. DryRun Security helps application security teams cut through thousands of code changes to find critical vulnerabilities by combining contextual analysis with natural language security policies.

Kelley Mak

Jan 22, 2025

Introducing cofounders.nyc: The best way to meet your NYC-based cofounder & early team members

The city’s become the second-largest tech hub in the US thanks to IPOs from companies like Datadog, MongoDB, AppNexus, Braze, and more while a number of Unicorn startups and tech-enabled Fortune 500s call NYC home.

Daniel Chesley

Jan 15, 2025

Our Investment in Prequel

When we first met Lyndon Brown and Tony Meehan, the co-founders of Prequel, we knew their passion for solving real-world problems in software reliability was palpable, and their deep expertise was one of a kind.

Priyanka Somrah

Dec 16, 2024

How to Elevate Your Enterprise Event Strategy

As we step into 2025, one of the most critical aspects of annual planning for enterprise software startups is mapping out a successful events strategy. With the rapid evolution of marketing trends and tools, what does a high-impact event look like in the year ahead?

Work-Bench

Dec 9, 2024

Join Our Growing Team as a Researcher

We are searching for an endlessly curious mind who lives and breathes enterprise technology. Someone who looks at a new developer tool and immediately wants to understand how it fits into the broader ecosystem.

Work-Bench

Dec 4, 2024

Join Our Growing Team as our Head of Growth

At Work-Bench, we think about the idea of “sourcing” differently than other funds. Our DNA is very much in community - and we believe and have seen firsthand that if we grow and support NYC enterprise ecosystem, then great things will happen.

Work-Bench

Dec 4, 2024

#Womenterprise Panel: Lessons on Selling AI Products from OpenAI, Hebbia & Runway

In our final #Womenterpise event of the year, we brought together sales leaders from the fastest-growing AI companies in NYC to share their top tactics on the front lines of selling cutting-edge AI products.

Work-Bench

Nov 22, 2024

How Ramp & Figma Built World-Class Products

Our November NY Enterprise Tech Meetup (#NYETM) took a behind-the-scenes, real talk look at how Ramp and Figma have become such product powerhouse, generational companies.

Work-Bench

Nov 14, 2024

Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs): 6 Ways for Retaining and Growing Customers

We recently hosted a talk by a VP of Client Solutions from one of our portfolio companies, highlighting the importance of Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and best practices for leveraging them to strengthen long-term customer relationships.

Work-Bench

Nov 13, 2024

How to Create a Predictable Top-of-Funnel Engine for Growth

As Seed-stage enterprise software investors, we’ve seen time and time again early-stage teams focus all of their time and energy on moving prospects down the funnel that, when they finally come up for air, they find their top-of-funnel pipeline has dried up.

Work-Bench

Nov 13, 2024

Opportunities in Data Centers & Next-Gen Networking

Recently, Zac and I have been exploring areas where venture scale opportunities could emerge in next-gen networking and infrastructure. So, we brought together a group of founders, data center developers, energy brokers, server providers, and Fortune 500 customers to discuss ideas and trends shaping the industry.

Daniel Chesley

Oct 18, 2024

16 Mid- to Late-Stage Enterprise Software Startups Growing in New York City

As longtime investors in New York City, we’re thrilled to see how much the city continues to grow in terms of talent and density of enterprise software companies.

Work-Bench

Sep 11, 2024

Announcing Work-Bench’s CEO-in-Residence: David Politis

It is with tremendous excitement that we share the newest addition to our Work-Bench team: David Politis, as CEO-in-Residence. Please join us in welcoming David to the Work-Bench team!

Work-Bench

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Explore topics:

Research

Application Automation: The Past, Present and Future

Playbooks

Pre-Product Market Fit: What It Means to Ideate & Validate an Enterprise-Ready Product

latest posts

Engineering BYOC: Enterprise Startups Share Their Playbooks

Feb 20, 2025

Fundraising Milestones To Cross the Seed to Series A Chasm in Application Software

Feb 3, 2025

Announcing Our Investment in DryRun Security

Jan 22, 2025

Introducing cofounders.nyc: The best way to meet your NYC-based cofounder & early team members

Jan 15, 2025

Our Investment in Prequel

Dec 16, 2024

How to Elevate Your Enterprise Event Strategy

Dec 9, 2024

Join Our Growing Team as a Researcher

Dec 4, 2024

Join Our Growing Team as our Head of Growth

Dec 4, 2024

#Womenterprise Panel: Lessons on Selling AI Products from OpenAI, Hebbia & Runway

Nov 22, 2024

How Ramp & Figma Built World-Class Products

Nov 14, 2024

Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs): 6 Ways for Retaining and Growing Customers

Nov 13, 2024

How to Create a Predictable Top-of-Funnel Engine for Growth

Nov 13, 2024

Opportunities in Data Centers & Next-Gen Networking

Oct 18, 2024

16 Mid- to Late-Stage Enterprise Software Startups Growing in New York City

Sep 11, 2024

Announcing Work-Bench’s CEO-in-Residence: David Politis

Aug 7, 2024

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