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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

Sep 19, 2023

What Consumers Can Teach Us About The Future Of Employee Identity Management

“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

Sep 18, 2023

An Ode To Operators: Introducing Work-Bench's Next NYC Network

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.

Work-Bench

Sep 12, 2023

GTM Tactics You Need To Scale in Marketing, Sales, Product & Professional Services

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.

Work-Bench

Sep 12, 2023

1st Principles for Seed-Stage Enterprise Software Startups

Building an enterprise startup is hard. But building an enterprise startup amidst this downtown is exceptionally harder.

Jessica Lin

Sep 11, 2023

The Key to Leveraging Founders’ Deep Domain Expertise

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.”

Jessica Lin

Aug 18, 2023

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Sep 18, 2023

NextGen Collaboration Tools: Where Are the NextGen Tools?

There was rampant speculation during the Covid crisis about the ways in which knowledge work would be performed in a post-Covid world. Now we know the answer.

Work-Bench

Jun 6, 2023

Application Automation: The Past, Present and Future

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

Jul 19, 2023

A Primer on Detection Engineering

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

Jul 7, 2023

Optimizing Log Costs

With growing concern around conserving budget, tech teams are identifying their largest areas of spend and how best to optimize their stack.

Rani Kubersky

Jul 5, 2023

Programmable Compute, the Next Big Thing in ML Infrastructure?

The data and machine learning landscape has transformed over the past five years. With cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks revolutionizing the management of data across distributed systems, the discourse has started shifting towards leveraging advanced machine learning to support business critical use cases.

Priyanka Somrah

Apr 14, 2023

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Highlights From Our 2023 Womenterprise Summit

We recently returned with our iconic Womenterprise Summit - the only conference exclusively dedicated to celebrating women in enterprise software!

Kira Colburn

May 5, 2023

2022 #Womenterprise Report: Only 400 Enterprise Software Startups Are Female Founded

Our 2nd annual #Womenterprise Report continues to prove that gender disparity is far worse for women in enterprise software than the broader tech ecosystem and the problem remains relatively unsolved from 2021.

Kira Colburn

Dec 6, 2022

Women in Enterprise Sales Forum: The Secret Sauce to Partnerships Sales Success with Red Hat, Cisco & BigID

Partnerships are a fast-growing and critical part of enterprise sales. Additionally, the dynamics behind Partnerships have evolved dramatically even in the last few years.

Jessica Lin

Oct 22, 2021

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GTM Tactics You Need To Scale in Marketing, Sales, Product & Professional Services

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.

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Sep 12, 2023

1st Principles for Seed-Stage Enterprise Software Startups

Building an enterprise startup is hard. But building an enterprise startup amidst this downtown is exceptionally harder.

Jessica Lin

Sep 11, 2023

A Formula For Pitching CIOs

After just a few years on the job, most CIOs will typically have heard ~100 sales pitches. And 7x CIO Mark Settle has heard the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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May 9, 2023

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NextGen Collaboration Tools: Where Are the NextGen Tools?

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Application Automation: The Past, Present and Future

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Optimizing Log Costs

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