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Opportunities in Data Centers & Next-Gen Networking

Opportunities in Data Centers & Next-Gen Networking

Recently, Zac and I have been exploring areas where venture scale opportunities could emerge in next-gen networking and infrastructure. So, we brought together a group of founders, data center developers, energy brokers, server providers, and Fortune 500 customers to discuss ideas and trends shaping the industry.

Oct 18, 2024
16 Mid- to Late-Stage Enterprise Software Startups Growing in New York City

16 Mid- to Late-Stage Enterprise Software Startups Growing in New York City

As longtime investors in New York City, we’re thrilled to see how much the city continues to grow in terms of talent and density of enterprise software companies. 

Sep 11, 2024
5 Effective Leadership Tactics of Highly Successful Founders with David Politis, Founder of BetterCloud

5 Effective Leadership Tactics of Highly Successful Founders with David Politis, Founder of BetterCloud

Our recent Work-Bench Enterprise Masterclass led by David Politis, Founder of BetterCloud, delved into the "5 Effective Leadership Tactics of Highly Successful Founders.”

Aug 7, 2024
Announcing Work-Bench’s CEO-in-Residence: David Politis

Announcing Work-Bench’s CEO-in-Residence: David Politis

It is with tremendous excitement that we share the newest addition to our Work-Bench team: David Politis, as CEO-in-Residence. Please join us in welcoming David to the Work-Bench team!

Aug 7, 2024
3 Myths About Selling Cybersecurity to Financial Services

3 Myths About Selling Cybersecurity to Financial Services

Many early-stage cybersecurity founders aim to sell to large enterprises, specifically financial services, when defining their go-to-market given they deeply care about minimizing risk and have the deep pockets to invest in security.

Jul 31, 2024
Announcing our Investment in GovWell

Announcing our Investment in GovWell

We’re excited to announce that we led GovWell’s $4.5M Seed round, with participation from existing investor Bienville Capital to support their mission to modernize government software. ‍

Jul 29, 2024
Announcing our Investment in ShiftRx

Announcing our Investment in ShiftRx

We’re excited to announce that Work-Bench led ShiftRx’s $3.5M Seed Round, with participation from Inflect, Tau, and Opal Ventures to further their mission of building an AI Healthcare Staffing Platform. 

Jul 25, 2024
10 Lessons From Scaling AssemblyAI with Founder & CEO Dylan Fox

10 Lessons From Scaling AssemblyAI with Founder & CEO Dylan Fox

We bring together 150+ operators from across Sales, Product, Marketing, Engineering, Customer Success, and more to get the lowdown on what’s been challenging and their strategies to triumph.

Jul 11, 2024
10 Quick Wins to Grow Pipeline

10 Quick Wins to Grow Pipeline

As Seed-stage enterprise software investors, go-to-market is the #1 thing we work with our portfolio – most importantly working with companies on getting to that pivotal first million in ARR and building a repeatable growth strategy.

Jul 3, 2024
Signals From Exceptional Founders

Signals From Exceptional Founders

In the past six months, Work-Bench has met with hundreds of founders and pre-founders building in enterprise software, SaaS, Developer Tools and Infrastructure at the Seed stage or earlier.

Jun 27, 2024
How To Price Your Product at Seed

How To Price Your Product at Seed

As Seed-stage enterprise software investors, go-to-market is the #1 thing we work with our portfolio on day in and day out. Early-stage founders often dedicate significant time to the development of their company, such as product roadmap development, achieving product-market fit, and defining sales motions.

Jun 26, 2024
Platform Engineering – An Idea Whose Time Has Come In Enterprise Data Operations

Platform Engineering – An Idea Whose Time Has Come In Enterprise Data Operations

“CIO Perspectives” is a white paper series by Mark Settle that explores top-of-mind technical issues confronting today’s IT leaders. Mark is a seven-time CIO, a three-time CIO 100 award winner, and a two-time book author.

Jun 17, 2024
Transforming Data Manipulation in Python Through the Convergence of SQL and DataFrames

Transforming Data Manipulation in Python Through the Convergence of SQL and DataFrames

This post was originally published on The Data Source, my monthly newsletter covering the top innovation in data infrastructure, engineering and developer-first tooling.

Jun 17, 2024
VC Perspectives on The Voyage Across Stages with Work-Bench, Lux Capital & Andreeseen Horowitz

VC Perspectives on The Voyage Across Stages with Work-Bench, Lux Capital & Andreeseen Horowitz

Our sold out May NY Enterprise Tech Meetup (#NYETM) featured ​​an annual fan favorite — our VC perspectives panel on “The Voyage Across Startup Stages” with a killer lineup of female investors.

Jun 14, 2024
Learnings from Building & Investing in Business Process Automation

Learnings from Building & Investing in Business Process Automation

Over the past few years at Work-Bench, I’ve spent a lot of time working with early-stage founders building across AI and Machine Learning Infrastructure, many of whom are aiming to build in Applied AI, RPA, and adjacent industries.

Jun 13, 2024