First of all, congrats! After putting in the tremendous hard work of getting your enterprise startup off the ground and gaining some traction, you’ve closed your Seed round (*sigh of relief and accomplishment*). …

As the late stage investing landscape becomes more and more chaotic, the battleground for VCs has largely shifted to early stage. Today, there’s more institutional capital than ever chasing Series A’s from firms like Tiger Global and Insight Partners in addition to traditional Silicon Valley VCs. Not only has this…

At Work-Bench, we’ve been investing in enterprise tech startups for nearly a decade now and for the past several years, we’ve been tracking the local NYC enterprise ecosystem’s growth through a series of Enterprise Tech in NYC Funding Reports. …

It happened in the blink of an eye — the NY Enterprise Tech Meetup (NYETM) has turned 10 years old. Since first launching in January 2012, we’ve hosted 100+ monthly meetups and grown the group to 10,000+ members across our “suits and hoodies” community of Fortune 1000 executives, enterprise startup…

As enterprise tech investors at Work-Bench, an exciting theme we’ve invested in for many years has been GIFEE — Google Infrastructure for Everyone Else. This initially played out through our early investments in CoreOS and Cockroach Labs, and most recently through our investment in Authzed. Given this experience, I had the opportunity to speak at Equinix Metal’s recent GIFEE Day conference on G(TM)FEE: Go To Market For Everyone Else.

Permissions as a Service We’re thrilled to announce our latest investment in founders we have known for many years through our Work-Bench community as we lead Authzed’s $3.9M …

With 9 years of the NY Enterprise Tech Meetup (NYETM) under our belt, we’re excited to continue our epic speaker lineup of enterprise game changers. First up this month, Elizabeth Lawler, CEO and Co-Founder of our portfolio company AppLand demoed their new, open source product AppMap. …

We’re excited to announce that Nike has acquired our Work-Bench portfolio company Datalogue! After meeting Co-Founder & CEO Tim Delisle back in 2017, we spent a few great years working alongside each other as we housed the Datalogue team at our Work-Bench office. Some fun memories from their journey include… Their #NYETM demo in June 2017 (note our super classy Work-Bench astroturf that we still had around from our summer party)

We’ve been investing in enterprise tech startups since our launch in 2013 and for the past several years, we’ve been tracking our local NYC enterprise ecosystem’s growth. See our most recent report on 2H funding 👉 here While the world faced an unprecedented global health pandemic and economic crisis in 2020, digital transformation took a front seat in the enterprise…