| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.02.2026 | Flock AI: $6 Million Seed Funding Closed To Scale One-to-One Visual Commerce For Fashion and Retail | Flock AI, an AI-native visual commerce platform built for fashion and retail, has raised a $6 million seed round led by Work-Bench, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. The round also included participation from January Ventures, Red Bik... |
| 28.01.2026 | Chamelio: $10 Million Seed Funding Raised To Scale Legal Intelligence Platform For In-House Teams | Chamelio, a legal intelligence platform built for in-house legal departments, announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding as it looks to expand product development and accelerate go-to-market efforts. The round was led by Work-Bench... |
| 27.01.2026 | Chamelio Raises $10M in Seed Funding | Chamelio, a NYC-based provider of a legal intelligence platform, raised $10M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Work-Bench and Emerge with participation from other investors.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and ... |
| 03.12.2025 | BuiltAI lands $6M to expand platform for global real estate investors | London-based BuiltAI, a financial modelling platform for commercial real estate investment, has secured $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by New York–based VC firm Work-Bench, with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Timber Grove ... |
| 21.06.2025 | Navigating the Cloud: The Rise of Serverless and Cloud Governance | In the vast expanse of technology, two trends are emerging as guiding stars: serverless computing and cloud governance. Both are reshaping how businesses operate in the digital age. They promise efficiency, scalability, and control. But the... |
| 20.06.2025 | CloudQuery: $16 Million Raised For Advancing Enterprise Cloud Governance | CloudQuery, a developer-first cloud governance platform, announced four times year-over-year growth metrics, which have resulted in a $16 million funding round led by Partech. This funding round includes continued support from Boldstart, Ti... |
| 21.04.2025 | Goodfire Raises $50 Million Series A to Advance AI Interpretability Research | Funding from Menlo Ventures powers Goodfire’s mission to decode the neurons of AI models, reshaping how they’re understood and designed
Today, Goodfire, the leading AI interpretability research company, announced a $50 million Series A fund... |
| 18.04.2025 | Goodfire: $50 Million (Series A) Closed For Advancing AI Interpretability Research Platform | Goodfire, a leading AI interpretability research company, announced a $50 million Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, ... |
| 23.01.2025 | DryRun Security: A New Era in Application Security with $8.7M Seed Funding | In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, security is paramount. Enter DryRun Security, a fledgling company that has just secured $8.7 million in seed funding. Founded in 2023 and based in Austin, Texas, DryRun is on a mission to revolu... |
| 22.01.2025 | DryRun Security raises $8.7M to advance AI-driven application security
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Founded in 2023, DryRun specializes in AI-driven AppSec that... |
| 24.12.2024 | Prequel: $3.3 Million (Seed) Secured For Helping Enterprises Boost Application Reliability | Prequel, a community-driven problem detection and management platform for cloud applications, announced it emerged from stealth and raised $3.3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Work-Bench, with participation from Runtime Ventur... |
| 18.12.2024 | Prequel's Bold Leap: A New Era in Application Reliability | In the fast-paced world of cloud applications, reliability is king. Enter Prequel, a new player that just raised $3.3 million in seed funding. This community-driven platform aims to revolutionize how enterprises detect and manage problems i... |
| 16.12.2024 | Prequel raises $3.3M to help enterprises boost application reliability by synthesizing global failure and problem detection knowledge; emerges from stealth | Prequel Logo
Prequel, the community-driven problem detection and management platform for cloud applications, has emerged from stealth with $3.3 million in seed funding led by Work-Bench. Notable founders, including Shay Banon of Elastic, pa... |
| 21.11.2024 | VISO TRUST Secures $24Million to Accelerate Innovation in AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management | VISO TRUST, a leader in AI-powered third-party risk management today announced the closing of its latest funding round, with participation from both existing investors, Bain Capital Ventures, Work-Bench, Sierra Ventures, and Lytical Venture... |
| 21.11.2024 | VISO TRUST: AI-Based Third-Party Risk Management Company Raises $24 Million | VISO TRUST, a leader in AI-based third-party risk management (TPRM), today announced the closing of a $24 million funding round with participation from both existing investors, Bain Capital Ventures, Work-Bench, Sierra Ventures, and Lytical... |
| 21.11.2024 | VISO TRUST Secures $24M in Funding | VISO TRUST, a San Francisco, CA-based company which specializes in AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM), raised $24M in funding.
Backers included existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, Work-Bench, Sierra Ventures, and Lytical Ve... |
| 20.08.2024 | Goodfire: $7 Million (Seed) Closed To Advance Understanding Of Advanced AI Systems | Goodfire has announced a $7 million seed round to advance its mission of demystifying generative AI models. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the funding round, with participation from Menlo Ventures, South Park Commons, Work-Bench, Juniper V... |
| 16.08.2024 | Goodfire Raises $7 Million to Break Open the Black Box of Generative AI Models | Seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners will accelerate the development of groundbreaking tools to understand, edit, and debug AI models
Goodfire announced a $7M seed round to advance its mission of demystifying generative AI models... |
| 15.08.2024 | Goodfire raises $7M for its ‘brain surgery’-like AI observability platform | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Goodfire, a startup developing tools to increase observability of the inner workings of generative AI models, ann... |
| 12.07.2024 | Revolutionizing Patient Care: Courier Health's $16.5M Funding Boost | A game-changer in the healthcare industry, Courier Health secures $16.5 million in Series A funding to enhance its patient-focused CRM platform for biopharma companies. Led by Norwest Venture Partners, this investment propels Courier Health... |
| 09.07.2024 | Courier Health Raises $16.5M for First Patient CRM for Biopharma | What You Should Know:
– Courier Health, a technology company transforming patient experiences in the life sciences industry raises $16.5M in Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Work-Ben... |
| 02.07.2024 | AuthZed Revolutionizes Permissions Management with $12M Series A Funding | AuthZed, a NYC-based startup, has secured $12 million in Series A funding to accelerate its strategic expansion in the realm of permissions management. Led by CEO Jake Moshenko, AuthZed is on a mission to simplify and enhance authorization ... |
| 29.06.2024 | AuthZed: Permissions Systems As A Service Company Secures $12 Million In Series A | AuthZed, a company helping enterprises rapidly build user experiences with simple, fast, and secure permissions systems, announced it has closed $12 million in funding led by General Catalyst with continued participation from Work-Bench, Y ... |
| 11.01.2024 | Perplexity AI’s challenge to Google hinges on something simple but tough—being the best | There are two major Steve Jobs movies.
I learned this talking to Perplexity AI cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas, who wanted to be clear with me—he was talking about the Steve Jobs movie featuring Michael Fassbender, not Ashton Kutcher.
Re... |
| 07.11.2023 | Three go-to-market tactics every founder needs to thrive in today’s market | Jessica Lin Contributor
Jessica Lin is general partner and co-founder at NYC-based early-stage enterprise VC firm Work-Bench.
Nailing go-to-market (GTM) as a startup is hard. But nailing GTM as an enterprise startup in a down market is exce... |
| 07.09.2023 | Exposed: A closer look at seed investors’ biases and incentives | Jonathan Lehr Contributor
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| 08.02.2023 | Why more startups are getting compliant | SaaS startups are working on acquiring enterprise clients earlier than they used to, and this is changing their road map.
“What I’ve seen is more and more companies are launching with table stakes enterprise features [ … ] whereas those use... |
| 09.12.2021 | Work-Bench report finds just 1.9% of venture investment going to female enterprise founders | A new report from early-stage venture capital firm Work-Bench confirmed what you probably already know: Startups with women founders are getting a mere sliver of the overall funding pie. What’s more, the percentages are far worse in the ent... |
| 12.08.2021 | New York City’s enterprise tech startups could be heading for a superheated exit wave | We lied when we said that The Exchange was done covering 2021 venture capital performance. Yesterday, we dug into preliminary Q3 data for the Chinese startup market. This morning, we’re looking back at just what startups in New York City ma... |
| 04.08.2021 | Why the IPO markets aren’t quite the dotcom bubble all over again | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
The now common phrase, that the pandemic has “accelerated digital trends,” has more recently been... |
| 04.08.2021 | Work-Bench will continue supporting early-stage enterprise startups with new $100M fund | In spite of the pandemic, New York City remains the center of commerce and business, and over the last decade a robust startup community has developed there. Work-Bench, the NYC VC firm that concentrates on early-stage enterprise seed inves... |
| 04.08.2021 | Work-Bench, Early Backer Of New York’s Enterprise Tech Startup Scene, Raises $100 Million Third Fund | Jessica Lin (left) and Jonathan Lehr (right) say one key to Work-Bench's success so far has been a ... [+] willingness "to constantly push ourselves to change and to innovate." Work-Bench |
| 04.08.2021 | Daily Crunch: Second-day trading surge launches Robinhood stock into meme territory | To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 4, 2021. It’s been hectic: Robinhood’s stock lost its mind. Fa... |
| 04.08.2021 | Why the IPO markets aren’t quite the dotcom bubble all over again | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 13.02.2021 | 9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes | About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like Facebook, Yahoo and Google, and not something most companies would have to worry ... |
| 30.01.2021 | Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday mornin... |
| 12.01.2021 | Is there still room in the cloud-security market? | Kelley Mak Contributor
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Kelley Mak is a principal at Work-Bench, where he focuses on early-stage enterprise technology investments in areas including security, cloud and developer tools.
While the initial shock of the COVID-... |
| 07.10.2020 | General Catalyst, Abstract-backed Zira Raises $3.1M For Shift-based Work Platform | 14 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
As many employees continue to work from home, employers look for ways to keep morale up as they manage productivity.
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| 06.10.2020 | Dialpad raises $100 million at a $1.2 billion valuation as businesses embrace ‘work from anywhere’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dialpad, a cloud-based communications platform for businesses, has raised $100 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. The series E round ... |
| 18.07.2020 | The Exchange: Which VCs are the most popular, why enterprise startups are hot, and how patient are public investors? | Welcome to The Exchange, an upcoming weekly newsletter featuring TechCrunch and Extra Crunch reporting on startups, money and markets. You can sign up for it here to receive it regularly when it launches on July 25th, and catch up on prior ... |
| 23.06.2020 | 11 top VCs discuss the future of New York startups | New York City was an initial U.S. hotspot for the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s also one of the most expensive cities in the world — so you might think startups would be anxious to leave.
However, when we surveyed a number of New York-based v... |
| 12.06.2020 | Lo Toney has some ideas about how to (really) bring VC into the 21st century | Last week, we suggested that for a truly diverse venture industry, the limited partners that provide investing capital to VCs — institutions like universities and hospital systems — need to start incorporating diversity mandates into their ... |
| 08.04.2020 | Talking venture, B2B and thesis-driven investment with Work-Bench’s Jon Lehr | Earlier this week, the Equity crew caught up with Work-Bench investor Jon Lehr to get his take on the current market, and how his firm goes about making investment decisions.
The conversation was a treat, so we cut a piece of it off for eve... |
| 03.04.2020 | Join prolific enterprise/SaaS seed investor Jonathan Lehr April 6 at 2pm EDT for a live conference call | It’s a tough fundraising environment out there, but one of the few glimmers of hope lies in the enterprise and SaaS markets. Critical customer problems + recurring revenues is probably where you want to be right now to weather the storm tha... |
| 02.04.2019 | FireHydrant lands $1.5M seed investment to bring order to IT disaster recovery | FireHydrant, an NYC startup, wants to help companies recover from IT disasters more quickly, and understand why they happened — with the goal of preventing similar future scenarios from happening again. Today, the fledgling startup announce... |
| 13.12.2018 | NYC’s Work-Bench announces $47M enterprise investment fund | Work-Bench, an early-stage enterprise startup venture capital firm based in New York City, announced its $47 million Fund II today. It follows their initial $10 million fund.
Work-Bench is itself like a venture capital investment startup. A... |
| 29.10.2018 | Work-Bench Raises More Than $46M for Enterprise Startups | New York City-based Work-Bench, an enterprise-focused venture fund and community, raised more than $46.2 million for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing. Work-Bench was co-founded by General Partners Jonathan Lehrand Jessica L... |
| 16.08.2018 | Work-Bench enterprise report predicts end of SaaS could be coming | Work-Bench, a New York City venture capital firm that spends a lot of time around Fortune 1000 companies, has put together The Work-Bench Enterprise Almanac: 2018 Edition, which you could think of as a State of the Enterprise report. It’s s... |
| 21.04.2018 | Special Report: New York’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem | New York City is a marvel of infrastructure planning and engineering. There are the visible landmarks — the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Empire State Building — and also the invisible ones that run the city beneath its crowded s... |
| 28.06.2017 | The next generational shift in enterprise infrastructure has arrived | Michael Yamnitsky Contributor
Michael Yamnitsky is venture partner at NYC-based venture fund Work-Bench.
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| 23.05.2017 | Merlon Intelligence raises $7.65 million in seed financing to combat money laundering | Flightcaster, Prismatic and now Merlon Intelligence. Bradford Cross, partner at the venture capital firm Data Collective is a known figure in the ranks of VCs who have caught the entrepreneurship bug, abandoning what could have been a cushy... |
| 22.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, May 22 | shoul WE CHANGED THE WORLD! …OOPS
But first: My column in the latest issue of Fortune. (You can read it online here.)
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| 21.05.2017 | Work-Bench Ventures Raises $40M For Second Fund | Work-Bench Ventures is aiming to raise $40,000 for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing. The firm, based in New York, is led by Jonathan Lehr and Jessica Lin. It co-invests in Series A and B deals in big data, AI, and data-driv... |
| 17.04.2017 | Breaking records, enterprise fundings are up nearly 80% in Q1 2017 | Mickey Graham Contributor
Mickey Graham works for the enterprise technology investment firm Work-Bench
After a lackluster year for enterprise technology venture capital investments, 2017 kicked off with a record breaking quarter for enterpr... |
| 21.12.2015 | Why Startups Will Dominate The AI-Powered Apps Landscape | Michael Yamnitsky Contributor
Michael Yamnitsky is venture partner at NYC-based venture fund Work-Bench.
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| 11.10.2015 | You’re Not In The Valley Anymore | Rick Zullo Contributor
Rick Zullo is vice president of LightBank.
My friend and fellow investor Jon Lehr of Work-Bench recently wrote a piece entitled “7 Lessons Learned in My First 2 Years as a VC.” Jon and I have known each other since be... |
| 29.09.2015 | AI Is About To Go Mainstream And Reshape The Workplace | Michael Yamnitsky Contributor
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| 08.08.2015 | 14 of the most promising seed-stage enterprise startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 15.05.2015 | Why Every Enterprise Startup Needs A New York City Presence | Jonathan Lehr Contributor
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| 17.03.2015 | Death of Gigaom doesn’t kill Structure Data conference: Attendees organize their own | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 17.03.2015 | Death of Gigaom doesn’t kill Structure Data conference: Attendees organize their own | Updated 3/18: Added a mention of Work-Bench, which is also hosting the event.
When tech-media company Gigaom abruptly shut down March 9, it didn’t look good for the company’s upcoming Structure Data conference, due to be held March 19-20 at... |
| 08.03.2015 | The State Of Enterprise Tech In NYC | Jonathan Lehr Contributor
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| 26.12.2014 | Why enterprise startups should set up shop in New York | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
NEW YORK — Startups in the San Francisco Bay Area... |
| 16.12.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (NYC Tech Holiday Party, Startup Weekend Holiday Party, Data Driven, Startup Battles, NJ Tech) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 09.12.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Computer Science Education Week, Emoji Art Show, ITP Winter Show, Forbes Hackathon, Startup Grind) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 02.12.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (TransAtlantic, ITP, HardWired, Startups & Meatballs, Made in Manhattan, NY Tech, Visual Revolution) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 25.11.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (AppHack, Refest Art+Tech Festival, Mobile Payments, NYC Gaming, UX for Internet of Things) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 18.11.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Founders Speak, Data Driven, Queens Tech, Wearable Tech, Silicon Drinkabout, Startup Grind) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 11.11.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (ON:Bitcoin, Digital Health, Uncubed, Columbia Women in Business, TimesOpen Hack Day, NYU Hacks) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 04.11.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Next Billion, FinTech Hackathon, Capital On Stage, StrategyHack, NY Tech, DevPong, Engadget Expand) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 28.10.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Building The Digital City, NYC Television Week, NYC Data Week, Intel Codefest, Data Driven) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 21.10.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Startup 2013, Reverse Demo Day, StreetFight, COWORK|RS Costume Ball, Dating+Tech) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 14.10.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Ada Lovelace Day, Social Week, Ingenuity, Queens Tech Bash, Music Hack Day, Mobile Payments Hackathon, The Feast) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
