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Work-Bench

VC
New York, NY, USAWebsite
How to approach: warm intro
Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Check Size

$1.0M – $10.0M

AUM

$1.1B

Portfolio

4+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2015Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Work-Bench invests in enterprise technology startups at the seed stage, with a focus on B2B SaaS and infrastructure companies.

Meet the Team

DC

Daniel Chesley

Principal

Machine Learning and AI
Developer Tools
Horizontal & Vertical SaaS Enterprise Applications

Daniel is a Principal at Work-Bench where he focuses on sourcing and evaluating investments across machine learning and AI, developer tools, and horizontal & vertical SaaS enterprise applications. Daniel also runs cofounders.nyc and writes the More Intelligent Newsletter, where he shares the latest thematic research and technology trends he’s digging into. Prior to joining Work-Bench, Daniel was a Product Manager on the Machine Learning team at Hyperscience where he was responsible for pre-trained machine learning models, synthetic data generation, and overall use case expansion. Previously, he was a Go-To-Market Strategy Lead and began his career at IBM. Daniel is Penn State proud and studied finance and glaciology.

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Priyanka Somrah

Principal

Data
Machine Learning
Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Priyanka is a Principal at Work-Bench, where she invests in companies across data, machine learning, and cloud-native infrastructure. She is deeply involved in New York City’s startup ecosystem and is passionate about working closely with technical founders to help them scale. Priyanka holds a B.A. in Economics with a policy concentration from New York University. She authors The Data Source, a newsletter exploring thematic trends across enterprise infrastructure, and Your Technical GTM Blueprint, where she shares case studies on go-to-market strategies for technical founders.

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Pattie Tope

Operations Manager

JL

Jonathan Lehr

General Partner

Enterprise SaaS
B2B
Infrastructure

Jonathan has a deep focus on enterprise SaaS and has led investments in companies like Cockroach Labs and Dialpad.

JL

Jessica Lin

General Partner

Horizontal and Vertical SaaS Enterprise Applications

Jessica is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Work-Bench, where she leads our investments in horizontal and vertical SaaS enterprise applications. Jessica is passionate about growing and supporting women in enterprise software, launching our 2023 #Womenterprise Summit and #Womenterprise community. Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Jessica is a longtime adult GED educator and actively involved with the education and workforce development in New York City. Jessica received a B.A. from Harvard University in Government and African Studies.

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Kelley Mak

General Partner

Security
Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Data and Analytics
Infrastructure
Future of Work

Kelley is a General Partner at Work-Bench, where he focuses on investments in areas in security and cloud-native infrastructure. Kelley also leads corporate engagement at Work-Bench, where he is a key point for the firm's relationships with forward-thinking technology executives across the Fortune 1000 and enterprise early adopters. He works closely with these leaders on enterprise technology trends transforming data and analytics, infrastructure, security, and the future of work. Prior to Work-Bench, Kelley covered the security market as an industry analyst at Forrester Research. Kelley is a graduate of Boston College with a B.S. in Physics and Philosophy.

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
SaaS
Other
AI / ML
Developer Tools

Portfolio Companies (4)

Other

BA

Backtrace I/O, Inc. (CIK 0001619304)

"Discovered via sec_edgar_form_d (high confidence)"

SEC Form D filing mentioning Work-Bench

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SyncRTC Inc. (CIK 0001725844)

"Discovered via sec_edgar_form_d (high confidence)"

SEC Form D filing mentioning Work-Bench

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