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Work-Bench
New York, United States
Work‑Bench backs early‑stage, conviction‑driven founders building the next generation of enterprise SaaS and infrastructure software. The firm focuses on companies with bold go‑to‑market ambitions, helping them navigate...
Portfolio
40+
Employees
40+
Founded
2012
AUM
≈ $375.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Seed
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Geographic scope
United States
Fund details
Funds
Fund IV
Vintage 2025 • $160.0M
Fund III
Vintage 2021 • $100.0M
Sources
Work-Bench
Work‑Bench backs early‑stage, conviction‑driven founders building the next generation of enterprise SaaS and infrastructure software. The firm focuses on companies with bold go‑to‑market ambitions, helping them navigate procurement and scaling challenges through playbooks and a strong NYC enterprise community.
Portfolio
40+
Employees
40+
Founded
2012
AUM
≈ $375.0M
Funds
Fund IV · Vintage 2025 • $160.0M
Fund III · Vintage 2021 • $100.0M
Stages
Seed
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Geographic scope
United States
Sources
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AIR Platforms provides an AI-powered credit intelligence platform that generates independent and explainable credit risk scores for private and public market instruments. It processes billions of data points to deliver immediate, granular insights, enhancing decision-making and reducing subjectivity for financial institutions.
Alkymi develops an AI-powered platform that automates the extraction and transformation of unstructured investment data into structured, actionable datasets, enabling seamless integration with existing financial systems. This solution addresses the inefficiencies in managing diverse investment document workflows, allowing firms to process data faster and make informed, data-driven decisions.
Funding: $26.0M
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Funding: $26.0M
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AppMap provides AI-enhanced runtime code analysis tools that visualize application architecture through sequence diagrams, dependency maps, and flame graphs. This platform enables developers to quickly understand complex codebases, identify performance issues, and improve documentation directly within their code editor.
Funding: $13.0M
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Funding: $13.0M
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Arthur is an MLOps platform that provides monitoring, management, and deployment solutions for machine learning models, including traditional and generative AI. It addresses risks such as data leakage and model performance degradation, enabling enterprises to optimize their AI operations while ensuring compliance and security.
Funding: $63.0M
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Funding: $63.0M
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Artian offers an enterprise platform that lets regulated organizations build and run multi‑agent AI workflows to automate complex, cross‑system processes such as risk remediation, payment integrity, and compliance approvals. The system ingests runbooks, SOPs, and BPM graphs to plan tasks, executes them with built‑in human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints, escalation paths, and audit‑ready guardrails, and integrates with existing infrastructure via a broad catalog of connectors.
Funding: $6.0M
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Funding: $6.0M
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AuthZed provides a managed permissions system built on SpiceDB, an open-source implementation inspired by Google's Zanzibar, enabling organizations to define and manage fine-grained access controls at scale. This technology addresses the challenges of maintaining consistent and secure authorization across complex applications, ensuring efficient permission checks and minimizing latency.
Funding: $16.0M
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Funding: $16.0M
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Automate enhances the used car and lease purchasing process by utilizing data analytics and machine learning to provide transparent pricing and vehicle history insights. This approach addresses the challenges of trust and information asymmetry in the used car market, enabling buyers to make informed decisions.
Built AI provides real estate investment professionals with automated financial analysis and data insights, enabling rapid evaluation of commercial property opportunities. By streamlining deal screening and eliminating manual data entry, the platform enhances decision-making efficiency and reduces the risk of missed investment opportunities.
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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CloudQuery is an open-source ELT platform that synchronizes data from various cloud and security tools using native connectors and a columnar data streaming protocol based on gRPC and Apache Arrow. It enables organizations to centralize their cloud asset inventory and streamline data integration processes, reducing complexity and improving performance without the need for intermediate data storage.
Funding: $18.5M
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Funding: $18.5M
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Cockroach Labs offers CockroachDB, a PostgreSQL‑compatible distributed SQL database that provides strong consistency, automatic multi‑region replication, and zero‑data‑loss failover across on‑premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. It eliminates manual sharding by scaling horizontally from a few nodes to hundreds while allowing data locality controls for regulatory compliance and low‑latency global access. The platform also supports online schema changes, automated upgrades, and managed cloud or BYOC deployment options for mission‑critical enterprise applications.
Funding: $278.0M
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Funding: $278.0M
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Common Fate provides a framework for managing permissions across cloud environments and critical applications, enabling fine-grained, just-in-time access to sensitive digital assets. By enforcing least privilege access and integrating with existing identity providers, it ensures that users have the necessary access only when required, enhancing security and compliance.
Funding: $3.1M
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Funding: $3.1M
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Courier Health provides a purpose-built patient CRM and command center for life sciences commercial organizations. This platform streamlines the end-to-end patient journey, offering unified visibility from awareness through adherence. It enables compliant coordination and automation across omnichannel workflows to improve patient starts and adherence.
Funding: $20.5M
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Funding: $20.5M
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Dialpad provides a cloud‑native platform that consolidates voice, video, messaging and contact‑center functions into a single application. The service uses AI to transcribe calls in real time, generate summaries and actionable insights, and automate routine workflows such as scheduling and refunds across multiple channels. Integrated CRM connectors, AI coaching tools and enterprise‑grade security enable mid‑size to large organizations to streamline communications and improve agent productivity.
Funding: $50.0M
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Funding: $50.0M
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Provides a GitHub-integrated security tool that uses Contextual Security Analysis to evaluate every pull request, identifying vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and broken access controls by analyzing code behavior, language, and environment. This approach delivers real-time security context to developers, reducing false positives and accelerating code reviews without slowing down the development pipeline.
Funding: $11.2M
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Funding: $11.2M
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FireHydrant is an incident management platform that consolidates on‑call scheduling, alert routing, and real‑time collaboration across Slack, Teams and video calls. It uses AI‑augmented runbooks and automatic transcription to generate searchable incident records and instant retrospectives, while analytics track MTTM, failure patterns, and service dependencies. The solution includes enterprise security features such as SOC 2 compliance, SSO, RBAC and audit logging for large DevOps and SRE teams.
Funding: $23.0M
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Funding: $23.0M
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Framework designs modular consumer electronics that prioritize repairability and upgradeability, allowing users to easily replace components and customize their devices. This approach addresses the issue of electronic waste by extending product lifespans and minimizing environmental impact.
Funding: $44.0M
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Funding: $44.0M
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Goodfire AI provides the Ember platform, giving engineers direct control over AI model internals for development and debugging. This technology allows users to precisely detect model problems and directly embed business rules into decision-making processes. The platform enables efficient deployment of models with lasting fixes at production scale.
Funding: $7.0M
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Funding: $7.0M
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GovWell provides an AI‑powered, cloud‑based platform that unifies permitting, licensing, planning, zoning, and code enforcement for municipal and county governments. The system offers online application portals, integrated payment processing, and AI‑driven workflow automation, giving staff real‑time dashboards and residents self‑service access to track requests, thereby improving efficiency and public trust.
Funding: $4.5M
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Funding: $4.5M
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Leapfin is an accounting automation software that standardizes transaction data into reliable journal entries, significantly reducing month-end close time by up to 90%. It addresses the challenges of manual data consolidation and revenue recognition, ensuring compliance with GAAP and other regulations while providing accurate financial insights.
Funding: $22.0M
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Funding: $22.0M
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This business intelligence platform unifies data from BI tools, big data sources, and SaaS applications into a single searchable portal. It tracks key metrics, detects anomalies, and notifies users of significant data changes, enabling data-driven decision-making.
Mixpeek provides a unified retrieval platform that indexes any file—video, audio, image, or text—and extracts structured, searchable features such as faces, objects, and transcripts. By connecting to existing storage, it automatically generates multimodal embeddings and enables cross‑modal queries without code changes, supporting production workloads with SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance.
Funding: $650.0K
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Funding: $650.0K
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Pace integrates product usage data into existing sales workflows to drive product-led growth efficiency. The platform provides real-time alerts and actionable insights, allowing sales teams to proactively engage high-propensity accounts. This eliminates manual data aggregation, enabling faster decision-making and revenue acceleration.
Funding: $5.0M
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Funding: $5.0M
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The startup specializes in readiness management by utilizing data analytics and real-time monitoring to enhance operational preparedness. It addresses the challenge of inefficient resource allocation and response times in critical situations, enabling organizations to optimize their readiness strategies.
Funding: $30.0K
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Funding: $30.0K
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Permiso Security offers an identity-based cloud detection and response solution that monitors user behavior and access patterns to enhance security for cloud infrastructures. This technology mitigates risks of unauthorized access and data breaches, ensuring compliance and safeguarding sensitive information.
Funding: $50.6M
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Funding: $50.6M
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