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Work-Bench
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Work-Bench is a New York-based B2B software seed fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds. It works alongside founders on go-to-market, hiring, and customer introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsb2b softwareapplied aiinfrastructureenterprisego-to-marketseed
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Or find every investor that fitsWork-Bench lists 37 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds, 6 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (31%), Cybersecurity (12%) and Fintech (9%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bling Capital, Lerer Hippeau and Accel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Work-Bench, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Work-Bench's whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 37. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 13% |
| Series B | 13% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 2 |
| '26 | 7 | 4 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 75th | 37 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 87th | 16% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 54th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 31% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Developer Tools | 9% | 0% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bling Capital | 3 |
| Lerer Hippeau | 3 |
| Accel | 2 |
| Contour Venture Partners | 2 |
| Index Ventures | 2 |
| Insight Partners | 2 |
| MXV Capital | 2 |
| Red Swan Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3492%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company38%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Work-Bench head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Work-Bench| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 14 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Series B | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Work-Bench
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Work-Bench's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
37 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIR Platforms provides AI-based credit intelligence and risk assessment for institutions | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Dec 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Alkymi unlocks investment data from unstructured documents and transforms it into standardized datasets using AI-powered data workflows | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Arthur provides AI governance and security solutions for enterprises to manage and control their AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Artian automates exception remediation for financial operations | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Authzed provides an authorization platform for AI and modern applications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Backtrace I/O provides application monitoring and crash reporting software for games and mobile apps | GamingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-native operating system for institutional real estate | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Dec 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Chamelio turns contracts, drafts, and decisions into knowledge for in-house legal teams | Legal & Compliance | Jan 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Cockroach Labs builds and provides a distributed cloud database estate called CockroachDB and a related database cloud product called Continuum. | Enterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Courier Health provides a patient experience platform for biopharma companies to manage the patient journey | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| DevArmor provides AI-powered threat modeling and security design services for software development | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| DryRun Security analyzes code for exploitable risks through automated adversarial review | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Earthly provides engineering guardrails for the AI era, turning standards and compliance into deterministic PR and AI-level enforcement in minutes | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| FireHydrant provides an all-in-one platform for alerting, on-call, and incident management | CybersecuritySpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | ||
| Paratus develops an AI system that supports military missions by learning and executing a unit's workflows and operations. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Goodfire helps users understand and debug their AI models by uncovering the hidden representations inside them | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| GovWell provides an AI-powered platform for municipal and county governments to deliver services and manage various processes | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Lumesa provides virtual try-on and AI-generated visuals for ecommerce and fashion brands | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI contract agents for multi-family real estate to control operating expenses | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- work-bench.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 3 Dec 2025
- Companies checked
- 37
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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