Our April NY Enterprise Tech Meetup (#NYETM) featured a fireside chat with Kevin Wang, Chief Product Officer at enterprise Saas customer engagement platform Braze.
Work-Bench
Despite recent advancements in the modern data stack, data work is still fragmented across tools and stakeholders. Recognizing this gap in 2019, Hex was built as a data science and analytics collaboration platform to better serve this need.
This post was originally published on The Data Source on April 18th, 2024, my monthly newsletter covering the top innovation in data infrastructure, engineering and developer-first tooling. Subscribe here!
Priyanka Somrah
There are two ongoing, but divergent trends afoot in enterprise software that are taking up a lot of airspace for companies building in Applied AI, and while these trends might not be so different from how software companies have historically been founded, they feel more palpable today than ever before.
Daniel Chesley
Apache Arrow DataFusion is a query engine built by Andy Grove, designed for building robust data-centric systems. Developed in Rust, a language known for its performance and memory safety, DataFusion serves as a foundational component for processing extensive datasets.
As Seed-stage investors at Work-Bench, the startups that we source, invest in, and support have not yet reached PMF - the point at which they have multiple paying customers who love their product and a consistency in growth.
Digital Wake Management (DWM) is a concerted effort to discover and delete personal information (PI) scattered across the Internet. It’s an ongoing exercise in digital hygiene designed to eliminate information that no longer serves a useful purpose or is inaccurate, whether such information was knowingly shared or created by third parties without an individual’s consent.
As enterprise Seed investors at Work-Bench, we continue to forge a path for women in enterprise software. In honor of Women’s History Month this March, we’re excited to highlight seven Pre-Seed firms led by women and investing in the earliest stages of enterprise and SaaS startups.
Jessica Lin
This post was originally published on The Data Source on February 29th, 2024, my monthly newsletter covering the top innovation in data infrastructure, engineering and developer-first tooling.
We’re excited to announce that our portfolio company and the leading customer growth platform Catalyst has merged with a top enterprise customer success software Totango to build a next-generation customer success powerhouse that revolutionizes the post-sales motion!
We caught up with Sanjay Padval, Group Product Manager at Vanta, who has been a part of the team since 2021 to get his perspective on what this journey has been like building and scaling products from startups all the way to enterprise customers.
We’ve been investing in enterprise tech startups for over a decade and during that time we’ve also been tracking the local NYC enterprise ecosystem’s growth through a series of Enterprise Tech in NYC Funding Reports.
Jonathan Lehr
Founders often tell us they're just a few features away from outpacing their competitors. However, our “not-hot-take hot-take” is that features alone usually aren't enough to secure competitive enterprise deals.
As enterprise Seed investors in NYC, we keep a pulse on all of the new founders and startups entering the ecosystem (and track them in our Enterprise Weekly Newsletter).
Kira is the Head of Platform at Work-Bench. Originally hired as Head of Content, Kira was promoted to Head of Platform in 2022 with an expanded scope of responsibilities across content and community. Prior to that, she led VC accounts out of SparkPR’s NYC office.
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