“CIO Perspectives” is a white paper series by Mark Settle that explores top-of-mind technical issues confronting today’s CIOs and IT leaders.
Work-Bench
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Chesley
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
AuthZed is a true story of the Work-Bench community coming full circle.
We’ve been investing in enterprise tech startups for a decade now and have been tracking the local NYC enterprise ecosystem’s growth through a series of Enterprise Tech in NYC Funding Reports.
Jonathan Lehr
Security has always been top of mind for infrastructure leaders and 2023 is no different. Cyber threats are becoming more complex and sophisticated, with an increasing number of attack vectors.
Priyanka Somrah
Given our obsession with enterprise go-to-market, we know how critical it is for businesses to have a successful customer success organization – that’s why we invested in Catalyst.
With growing concern around conserving budget, tech teams are identifying their largest areas of spend and how best to optimize their stack.
Rani Kubersky
In 2016, April Koh set out to change the face of mental healthcare by launching Spring Health.
In 2019, we invested in Arthur as the first production AI monitoring platform to detect and protect enterprises against modeling issues and biases.
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