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Application Automation: The Past, Present and Future
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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.

Daniel Chesley

Daniel Chesley

Jun 13, 2024
Why NYC Enterprise Software Is Stronger Than Ever: 2024 NYC Enterprise Operators Retreat Recap

Why NYC Enterprise Software Is Stronger Than Ever: 2024 NYC Enterprise Operators Retreat Recap

At Work-Bench, our dedication to community is at the heart and soul of everything we do as enterprise software investors.

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Work-Bench

Jun 12, 2024
Scaling Product from 0 to IPO with Kevin Wang, CPO of Braze

Scaling Product from 0 to IPO with Kevin Wang, CPO of Braze

Our April NY Enterprise Tech Meetup (#NYETM) featured a fireside chat with Kevin Wang, Chief Product Officer at enterprise Saas customer engagement platform Braze.

Work-Bench

Work-Bench

May 30, 2024
Next NYC Spotlight: Determining Hex’s Flavor of PLG

Next NYC Spotlight: Determining Hex’s Flavor of PLG

Despite recent advancements in the modern data stack, data work is still fragmented across tools and stakeholders. Recognizing this gap in 2019, Hex was built as a data science and analytics collaboration platform to better serve this need. 

Work-Bench

Work-Bench

Apr 25, 2024
Distilling The Composable Data Management System Manifesto

Distilling The Composable Data Management System Manifesto

This post was originally published on The Data Source on April 18th, 2024, my monthly newsletter covering the top innovation in data infrastructure, engineering and developer-first tooling. Subscribe here!

Priyanka Somrah

Priyanka Somrah

Apr 18, 2024
Applied AI and the LLM Adoption Curve

Applied AI and the LLM Adoption Curve

There are two ongoing, but divergent trends afoot in enterprise software that are taking up a lot of airspace for companies building in Applied AI, and while these trends might not be so different from how software companies have historically been founded, they feel more palpable today than ever before.

Daniel Chesley

Daniel Chesley

Apr 12, 2024
Apache Arrow DataFusion - A Primer

Apache Arrow DataFusion - A Primer

Apache Arrow DataFusion is a query engine built by Andy Grove, designed for building robust data-centric systems. Developed in Rust, a language known for its performance and memory safety, DataFusion serves as a foundational component for processing extensive datasets.

Priyanka Somrah

Priyanka Somrah

Apr 8, 2024
Pre-Product Market Fit: What It Means to Ideate & Validate an Enterprise-Ready Product

Pre-Product Market Fit: What It Means to Ideate & Validate an Enterprise-Ready Product

As Seed-stage investors at Work-Bench, the startups that we source, invest in, and support have not yet reached PMF - the point at which they have multiple paying customers who love their product and a consistency in growth.

Work-Bench

Work-Bench

Apr 1, 2024
Digital Wake Management

Digital Wake Management

‍Digital Wake Management (DWM) is a concerted effort to discover and delete personal information (PI) scattered across the Internet. It’s an ongoing exercise in digital hygiene designed to eliminate information that no longer serves a useful purpose or is inaccurate, whether such information was knowingly shared or created by third parties without an individual’s consent.

Work-Bench

Work-Bench

Mar 14, 2024
7 Pre-Seed Enterprise VC Firms Led by Women

7 Pre-Seed Enterprise VC Firms Led by Women

As enterprise Seed investors at Work-Bench, we continue to forge a path for women in enterprise software. In honor of Women’s History Month this March, we’re excited to highlight seven Pre-Seed firms led by women and investing in the earliest stages of enterprise and SaaS startups.

Jessica Lin

Jessica Lin

Mar 14, 2024
The Future of Cloud Networking - A Primer

The Future of Cloud Networking - A Primer

This post was originally published on The Data Source on February 29th, 2024, my monthly newsletter covering the top innovation in data infrastructure, engineering and developer-first tooling.

Priyanka Somrah

Priyanka Somrah

Feb 29, 2024
Catalyst Merges with Totango

Catalyst Merges with Totango

We’re excited to announce that our portfolio company and the leading customer growth platform Catalyst has merged with a top enterprise customer success software Totango to build a next-generation customer success powerhouse that revolutionizes the post-sales motion!

Jessica Lin

Jessica Lin

Feb 28, 2024
Next NYC Spotlight: A PM’s Journey UpMarket

Next NYC Spotlight: A PM’s Journey UpMarket

We caught up with Sanjay Padval, Group Product Manager at Vanta, who has been a part of the team since 2021 to get his perspective on what this journey has been like building and scaling products from startups all the way to enterprise customers.

Work-Bench

Work-Bench

Feb 20, 2024
The State of Enterprise Tech in NYC: 2023 Funding Report

The State of Enterprise Tech in NYC: 2023 Funding Report

We’ve been investing in enterprise tech startups for over a decade and during that time we’ve also been tracking the local NYC enterprise ecosystem’s growth through a series of Enterprise Tech in NYC Funding Reports.

Jonathan Lehr

Jonathan Lehr

Feb 15, 2024
Better Products Don't Always Win: How To Package & Distribute For a Competitive Edge

Better Products Don't Always Win: How To Package & Distribute For a Competitive Edge

Founders often tell us they're just a few features away from outpacing their competitors. However, our “not-hot-take hot-take” is that features alone usually aren't enough to secure competitive enterprise deals.

Jessica Lin

Jessica Lin

Feb 8, 2024

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