Work-Bench is a New York City-based venture capital firm that exclusively backs seed-stage enterprise software startups. Their strategy involves a thesis-driven approach, leveraging their extensive corporate network to validate Fortune 500 IT pain points and then investing in promising companies that address these challenges, while also actively supporting their portfolio with go-to-market strategies.
Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months). Average disclosed round size is $26.3M (across 32 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
33
Fund Size
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Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
33 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 AIR | Seed | $6.1M | Dec 2025 |
 Goodfire | Series C | $50M | Apr 2025 |
 DryRun Security | Seed | $8.7M | Jan 2025 |
 Common Fate | Seed | $3.1M | Dec 2022 |
 Alkymi | Series A | $21M | Oct 2022 |
 Arthur | Series B | $42M | Sep 2022 |
 Pace | Seed | $5M | Aug 2022 |
 Leapfin | Series A | $12M | Jul 2022 |
 CloudQuery | Series A | $15M | Jun 2022 |
 ApertureData | Seed | $3M | Feb 2022 |
 Permiso | Seed | $10M | Jan 2022 |
| CloudQuery | Seed | $3.5M | Nov 2021 |
 Spring Health | Series C | $190M | Sep 2021 |
 FireHydrant | Series B | $23M | Aug 2021 |
 Authzed | Seed | $3.9M | Apr 2021 |
 RippleMatch | Series B | $23.5M | Apr 2021 |
 Arthur.ai | Series A | $15M | Dec 2020 |
| Spring Health | Series B | $76M | Nov 2020 |
 Dialpad | Series E | $100M | Oct 2020 |
| FireHydrant | Series A | $8M | May 2020 |
| RippleMatch | Series A | $6M | Sep 2019 |
| FireHydrant | Seed | $1.5M | Apr 2019 |
 Scytale | Series A | $5M | Mar 2019 |
 Semmle | Series B | $21M | Aug 2018 |
| Dialpad | Series D | $50M | Jul 2018 |
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Top Co-Investors
Tiger Global Management4 shared
True Ventures4 shared
Andreessen Horowitz3 shared
Northzone3 shared
Menlo Ventures3 shared
Iconiq Capital2 shared
Index Ventures2 shared
Accel2 shared
Boldstart Ventures2 shared
RRE Ventures2 shared
Scale Venture Partners1 shared
Homebrew1 shared
Greycroft1 shared
Bessemer Venture Partners1 shared
Felicis Ventures1 shared
Spark Capital1 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners1 shared
Root Ventures1 shared
Canaan Partners1 shared
Foundation Capital1 shared
Last updated: 5 March 2026