Retool was designed around the belief that software has been built the same way for the last two to three decades, requiring specialized training and expertise from developers.
Work-Bench
In 2018, Persona entered the game to become the identity layer of the internet. While they’ve been continuously expanding their talent and improving the product, it’s been imperative for the team to refine their GTM.
In an era where many companies use open source as a foundation to win over the developer community, nailing a go-to-market strategy that monetizes a product is important to successfully scale the business.
Like cloud computing, edge computing is a significant paradigm shift that’s poised to be the next platform shift. This shift stems from the fundamental way in how data is processed and managed.
Priyanka Somrah
Over the past year, we’ve seen the hype cycle of Generative AI takeover. For many founders, Large Language Models (LLMs) have removed the barrier to experimenting with ML workflows, making it easier than ever to hack together a prototype and get started.
Daniel Chesley
We chatted with Robert Ross on how his background uniquely positions the company to win, his leadership style throughout the growth phases of the startup, and what’s next.
With Y Combinator Demo Day upon us, ‘tis the season of $2M on $20M cap SAFEs. While many investors have been vocal against such raises, YC Partners generally stand by them and even YC founder Paul Graham is vocal with his defense.
Jonathan Lehr
“CIO Perspectives” is a white paper series by Mark Settle that explores top-of-mind technical issues confronting today’s CIOs and IT leaders.
We wanted to get into the nitty gritty GTM tactics these operators have used and proved-out on their journeys to scaling successful enterprise startups.
As an enterprise software VC firm, our mission has always been to find, fund, and support game-changing enterprise software founders, at the earliest stage.
Building an enterprise startup is hard. But building an enterprise startup amidst this downtown is exceptionally harder.
Jessica Lin
There is a great line about exceptional founders that resonates with who we invest in at Work-Bench: “This person has thought about this problem more than anyone else.”
Inspired by the Developer Tooling and Infrastructure boom in NYC this past decade and our continued search for the next generation of startups in the space, we hosted what we called “Infrasummer,” a summer blitz of themed events and content.
The world of automation is rapidly evolving. Recent advancements in AI are fundamentally changing the way we work, and have already instilled new behaviors and expectations for enterprise-grade products.
In honor of 10 years of Work-Bench, we thought it’d be a good time to reflect on this past decade with 10 lessons learned. Hopefully some of these lessons can be helpful to you, whether you are a founder, operator, or fund manager.
Jessica Lin and Jonathan Lehr
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