🥯Come grab a bagel and join us at the Work-Bench offices on Thurs. 2/27 for a casual mingling on all things BYOC—building on insights from our recent blog post. 🧐Whether you're refining your GTM motion or just looking to learn, this is a great chance to connect with peers &

Enterprise sales is brutal when you’re just starting out. No brand recognition, no case studies...just you, cold emails, and an early product. 🤔💡But what if you had the exact outbound templates, discovery call questions, sales deck secrets, ​and B2B marketing channels

🧠This Week in Enterprise Convos: A recent conversation with a VP of Engineering at a major media company highlighted challenges in the BI space. Even with robust systems—from CRMs to ERPs to data processing systems — many orgs grapple with fragmented data and time-consuming

Excited to announce the 3rd speaker joining our NYC Pre-Seed GTM Summit lineup: 🔥 Dan Lorenc Founder & CEO Chainguard ⛓️ 🔥 ➡️ About Dan: Dan has been at the forefront of software supply chain security, building Chainguard into a category-defining company helping

.authzed and Kelsey Hightower assembled an amazing group of practitioners for the inaugural AuthZed Supper Club. They're going to discuss authorization, permission systems, and more. Great mix in the room across financial services, media, and tech! cc Jacob Moshenko

Join our next NY Enterprise Tech Meetup on 3/18 with 2 of NYC's top fintech eng leaders from Ramp & @socureme 🔥 Our panelists: ​- nik koblov Head of Eng at Ramp ​- Arun Kumar, CTO of Socure ​- Kelley Mak GP Partner at Work-Bench How did Ramp and Socure build eng

🧠This Week in Enterprise Convos: I recently hosted a breakfast with a former Robinhood Head of Infra and and engineering practitioners from Walmart, HashiCorp and others, and uncovered three key enterprise infrastructure trends⬇️ 🔹BYOC offers tailored cloud solutions but

Putting together an NYC tech basketball game for founders, operators, VCs 🏀 Next game is Monday 3/10 from 6-8pm 3 spots left. DM me!

1 week left until our NYC Pre-Seed GTM Summit! We have a few spots open, so if you're building in SaaS or Infra, apply to join: lu.ma/gtmsummit This is probably our most tactical event yet 🤓 we'll have tactics, templates & case studies on how to get your early GTM

🗽 🇮🇱 No one knows how to happy hour like Israelis in NYC! That was clear last night at the Hetz - Work-Bench - Meitar | Law Offices meetup celebrating the local Israeli founder community. Thanks Jonathan Lehr, Work-Bench and Meitar_Law! See you back on the east coast soon

Love hearing feedback like this from the cofounders.nyc community! 😍 It's only been 2 months and I've already heard from 10+ cofounder matches that have taken the leap and started building! Sign up at cofounders.nyc and I'll shoot you a note for our invite-only March

We’re thrilled to announce that Work-Bench led ZippedScript $2.6M Seed round! 🏫 Problem: Many of us have undergone a background check while applying for a new job, but don’t realize how complex the process can be for education verification - it's outdated and manual requiring

Gearing up for the Work-Bench Pre-Seed GTM Summit in NYC! We have a stacked lineup for our 100+ guests Excited to meet NYCs next generation of founders 😎

Our Work-Bench Pre-Seed Enterprise GTM Summit is live in NYC! We're kicking off with a fireside chat between Jessica Lin and Dan Lorenc of Chainguard ⛓️ The topic is "Hard GTM Lessons Learned as a Technical Founder" Thanks to Rho & Mastercard for the partnership

Another great day for NYC enterprise software in the books! 🚀🌆 Our Work-Bench NYC Pre-Seed GTM Summit brought together 80+ early-stage SaaS / Infra founders to dive into the proven playbooks for early enterprise GTM: 🤕 A Need Is Not the Pain Dig into the prospect’s acute

🚀 I'm excited to share that we’ve raised Work-Bench Fund IV, a $160M fund to back the next generation of enterprise software founders at Seed. 🤗 I joined Work-Bench just under six years ago during Fund II. I was drawn to the idea of working closely with technical founders

One of the biggest mindset shifts in transitioning from operator to VC was embracing the long game. Startups take time. It might take a portfolio company 2-3 years to go from Seed to Series A, or 10+ years for a fund to finally see meaningful returns. To me, that means you have

🚨 Big news: We’ve raised $160M for Work-Bench Fund IV to back Seed-stage founders with massive enterprise ambitions. Enterprise is in our DNA and with Fund IV, we’re quadrupling down.👇

So thrilled to announce Work-Bench Fund IV: a $160M fund to continue backing founders with massive enterprise software ambitions 💥 Twelve years ago, we set out to build a Seed stage enterprise SaaS VC firm here in NYC - still funny to think how contrarian of a bet that was

Excited to announce the launch of Work-Bench Fund IV: $160M dedicated to backing visionary seed stage enterprise founders! The enterprise tech landscape has never been more dynamic. We're witnessing massive transformation across the entire stack - from groundbreaking AI