NYC’s B2B seed fund for founders with enterprise ambitions
Work-Bench is New York’s B2B software seed fund, backing the founders building the next generation of applied AI and infrastructure software.
We lead pre-seed and seed rounds in conviction-driven founders, often before the rest of the market sees what they see.
We started Work-Bench in 2013 with a belief that New York would become one of the best places in the world to build enterprise companies. More than a decade later, that belief has become reality - and we think the best is still ahead.
One thing hasn’t changed: a great product isn’t enough. The companies that win understand their customers better than anyone else - and turn that understanding into distribution.
We believe GTM is your moat: great products get you in the game, but customer understanding and distribution are what let you win it.
From Day 1, we work alongside founders to build it: finding the first customers, sharpening the motion, hiring the team, and scaling from seed through exit - and beyond.
We’ve backed some of the best names in software and are pumped to work with the next generation
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cockroach labs | Series F | Greenoaks, Altimeter, Benchmark
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dialpad | Series F | Andreessen Horowitz, GV, ICONIQ
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spring health | Series E | Generation Investment Management, Kinnevik, Northzone
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socure | Series E | Accel, T. Rowe Price, Scale Venture Partners
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goodfire | Series B | B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
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courier health | Series B | Oak HC/FT, Work-Bench, Cascade Seed Fund
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govwell | Series A | Insight Partners, Work-Bench, Bienville Capital
we've helped our portfolio through all of their 'seed firsts'
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we lead seed rounds and write the first institutional check
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we help founders navigate procurement, security reviews, soc 2, pocs, msas, and more
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we open doors into our community of fortune 500 buyers, operators, and design partners
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we share battle-tested playbooks for discovery calls, outbound sequences, and pricing discovery
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we connect and help close the best engineering, product, sales, and growth candidates
who we are obsessed with meeting
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technical founders building with customer empathy
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repeat founders coming back for round two
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operators who've sat inside large companies and not seen so much opportunity
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builders with strong perspective about where the future is headed
hang with us
a community and network designed to help NYCs top builders, operators, and execs find co-founders and early team members.
our recurring meetup series where we bring together the best operators from AI-native companies in NYC for drinks.
recurring small-group dinner series where those with the desire to build can meet other aspiring founders.
get in touch
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pitches, intros, and hellos: hello@work-bench.com
