Work-Bench
work-bench.com Direct investor
Work-Bench is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B software companies, focusing on applied AI and infrastructure. They lead pre-seed and seed rounds and provide support in go-to-market strategy and customer development.
Work-Bench is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 2013. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in B2B software, applied AI, infrastructure software and cybersecurity. 40 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We lead pre-seed and seed rounds in conviction-driven founders, often before the rest of the market sees what they see.”
— Work-Bench, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Invests in
- US, NYC
- Sectors
- B2B software, applied AI, infrastructure software, cybersecurity, enterprise apps, AI infrastructure, developer tools
- Founded
- 2013
- Portfolio
- 40 companies
Team, as Work-Bench publishes it
- Jonathan Lehr Co-founder & General Partner
- Jessica Lin Co-founder & General Partner
- Kelley Mak General Partner
- Daniel Chesley Principal
- Proby Shandilya Associate
- Pattie Tope Operations Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on work-bench.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Work-Bench publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.work-bench.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://www.work-bench.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.work-bench.com/teampeople
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Record 631 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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