Work-Bench is a seed investor for enterprise startups, focusing on areas such as Data, AI & Machine Learning, Infrastructure & Developer Tools, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Applications.

Work-Bench

Work-Bench is an enterprise venture capital firm based in New York City. We lead Seed rounds in enterprise software startups throughout the country. We are laser-focused on supporting early-stage startups on all things go-to-market and have built a dynamic enterprise tech community in New York City and beyond. 

x.ai

Algorithmia

Upskill

Oration

Scytale.io

Kensho

True Office Learning

Uplevel Security

Semmle

Backtrace

CoreOS

Versive

We’re thrilled to announce that our portfolio company Courier Health has raised a $16.5M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners. 

Courier Health provides the only patient-based CRM platform developed specifically for biopharma field access, patient services, and marketing teams to gain complete visibility and control over the end-to-end patient journey.

Over the past decade, the number of specialty medicines has surged, accounting for 93% of all drug approvals and dominating R&D pipelines. Despite this progress, 60-70% of patients prescribed specialty medicines either never begin their treatment or discontinue within the first few months.

Their platform connects disparate data sets, enabling centralized patient and provider management, omnichannel workflow automation, and advanced analytics, which are helping life sciences customers working with Courier Health achieve double-digit improvements to patient starts, time-to-start, and ongoing adherence to life-altering therapies.

Huge congrats to Danny Sigurdson and the entire team! We couldn’t be more honored to have led the Seed and be a part of Courier Health’s journey as they enable critical access to life-saving therapies for thousands of patients 🎉 

PS: They’re hiring across product, engineering and GTM!

As Seed-stage enterprise software investors, go-to-market is the #1 thing we work with our portfolio on day in and day out. In that spirit, we continuously host Enterprise Masterclasses on various tactical topics to cover everything a founder needs to know to get from 0 to 1.  

ICYM the latest masterclasses 🚨 we're linking to them below:

💸 How To Price Your Product at Seed with repeat founder Rob Bailey
https://lnkd.in/eNTYdKTb

🌪 10 Quick Wins to Grow Pipeline with Growth Unhinged author Kyle Poyar
https://lnkd.in/eQqakheB

Huge congrats to our Work-Bench portfolio company AuthZed on their $12M Series A led by General Catalyst! 
 
🤔 The problem: The growing complexity of user interactions in modern applications strains traditional authorization approaches and can lead to security vulnerabilities and bottlenecked development teams.

😎 Their solution: Delivering enterprise-ready permissions systems at scale, and the popular open-source project SpiceDB, a Google Zanzibar-inspired database for storing and computing permissions data, with over 4,500 stars on GitHub and over 2,300 members in their Discord community.  

💰 🤝  AuthZed’s ARR has more than tripled each year, with customers including Canva, Turo, HackerRank, Clear Street, Evisort, SpotAI, and Avise, as well as open source contributions from engineers at organizations like GitHub and Reddit. 

🧑‍🚀 🚀 With such clear signs of product-market fit, we’re excited to see co-founders Jacob Moshenko, Joseph S., and Jimmy Zelinskie, and the entire AuthZed team put their foot on the accelerator!

🚨 Founders: Don't miss our last Enterprise Masterclass of our summer series! 

​David Politis, Founder of BetterCloud is one of the most real speakers on our bench. He'll share:
⚔ Battle-tested (and practical) leadership tactics, covering crucial aspects like communication, instilling company values, optimizing meetings, and beyond
🎢 All the triumphs, but most importantly many of the pitfalls he encountered for you to avoid 

As a repeat founder with 20 years of experience, including 12+ years at the helm of BetterCloud, David has achieved $100s of millions in ARR, hired thousands of people, and raised from top tier VCs while surviving macro downturns and company pivots. 

https://lnkd.in/es-aXXGj

What an epic day! #LFGNYC2024 🐻⛰️

This year’s NYC Enterprise Operators Retreat centered around the challenging journey of building from zero to one with 150+ of NYC’s top SaaS and infrastructure operators.  

Our hearts were full seeing so many authentic relationships forming and real talk convos flowing during our day at Bear Mountain State Park over tactical talks, outdoor summer activities, so much ice cream, brewery drinks, and some classic Kelley Mak dad jokes. 

Huge thank you to our attendees and lineup of speakers across Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering, and CS who made this event such a success. 🔥  

cc. David Politis, Dylan Fox, Nitzan Shapira, Nan Yu, Peggy Rayzis, Eliot Knudsen, Rachel Dines, Jane Kelly, Varun Anand, Robert Williams, Taylor Linton, Jacob Moshenko, Danny Sigurdson, Sebastyan Zaborowski, Will Nowak & so many more from NYC's top, high growth companies.

Lastly, thank you to our sponsors Cooley LLP and SVB!

Jonathan Lehr, Jessica Lin, Kelley Mak, Priyanka Somrah, Daniel Chesley, Kira Colburn

In 2022, we hosted our inaugural NYC Enterprise Operators Retreat 🐻 🏔 

What made the day so magical? 

💫 Inspiration — Our morning keynotes focused on getting though the fear and unknowns of startup life.
🛠 Tactics — Our afternoon unconferences focused on the real talk tactics from leaders from Spring Health, Alphasense, Okta, Datadog, Cockroach Labs, BigID, and more. 
😎 Authentic relationships — We hosted 125+ of NYC’s top enterprise operators across Sales, Marketing, Product, Developers/Engineering, and more.
🌞 Epic summer fun — We bussed everyone up to Bear Mountain for a city getaway and of sun-soaked adventure.

On June 5th, we're bringing that magic BACK! 

Alexis L. (CTO of Datadog) is kicking off the day, followed by sessions with leaders from Pinecone, Merge, Chronosphere, Retool, Linear, Grafana Labs, Hugging Face, Clay, Databricks, and more! Here's what I'll look like 👇 See more info in the comments.

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