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What does Work-Bench invest in?
Work-Bench invests most often at Seed and Series A (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Identity, Paas and Recurring.
Work-Bench highlights
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7 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 64% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $1.5M
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Work-Bench is New York’s B2B software seed fund, backing the founders building the next generation of applied AI and infrastructure software.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- IdentityPaasRecurring
- Based in
- New York, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first27 appearances
- 2026
7 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2025
1 round
- Apr
- 2019
5 rounds
- Dec
- Aug
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- 2018
1 round
- Jul
- 2017
1 round
- May
- 2016
2 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- 2015
3 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- 2014
6 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- May
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- 2013
1 round
- Jan
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
ACAnthony CappertExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JLJessica LinMANAGING PRINCIPAL OF THE GENERAL PARTNERiFiling they signed
JLJonathan LehrMANAGING PRINCIPAL OF THE GENERAL PARTNERiFiling they signed
We also hold 9 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$565Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Work-bench Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 289087
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Work-Bench's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Level Ventures1 fundFund Vintage Committed work-bench - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
24 of 38 we have independently watched raise
AIR Platforms AI-PoweredAlkymi Data WorkflowArthur AI ModelAuthzed Managed PermissionsBacktrace Crash ReportingBuilt AI AutomatedCockroach Labs DistributedCourier Health PatientDRYRUN SECURITY AI-PoweredDialpad AI-Powered BusinessEarthly Engineering GuardrailsFirehydrantGoodfire AI InterpretabilityGovWell Modern SoftwareMETRIC INSIGHTS BusinessPetra Enterprise AEORediem AI-native LoyaltySemmle Code AnalysisShiftRx Pharmacy StaffingSocure Digital IdentitySpring Health MentalTamr Data UnificationVTS Commercial RealZippedscriptArtian Multi-Agent SystemChamelio AI SystemDevArmor AI-Powered ThreatGit AI AILumesa AI-Native ContentPERMISO Unified IdentityParatus Military ReadinessPeerbound AI CustomerRedhatSKUSafe AI-native FoodScytale Workload IdentityShipyard Ephemeral EnvironmentTilt Local DevelopmentVarick Agents Enterprise
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
CoreOSBought by Redhat$250MJan 2018
True OfficeBought by IntercontinentalExchangeUndisclosedNov 2014
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.