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Work-Bench

915 Broadway, Suite 1200, New York, 10010, United States

Overview

Work-Bench is an enterprise venture capital firm based in NYC. We lead Seed rounds in enterprise software startups throughout the country. We are laser focused on supporting early-stage startups on all things go-to-market and have built a dynamic enterprise tech community in NYC and beyond.

Total investments
59
Lead investments
19
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
6

Sector focus

  • B2B
  • Enterprise Software
  • Financial Services
  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Petra Labs

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    Petra Labs offers an end-to-end AEO service for enterprise brands, pairing a proprietary measurement platform with an embedded team of experts who run strategy and execution. The company builds custom last-mile attribution models to connect AI search visibility to AI-referred traffic and revenue, allowing brands to allocate spend based on revenue impact. Petra targets large enterprise customers whose AEO initiatives produce complex data and require hands-on execution. Founders Sami Akkawi (CEO), Rishi Penmetcha (CTO) and Ramie Khoury (COO) bring backgrounds in strategy consulting, large-scale data systems and enterprise growth. Petra was founded in 2025 and is based in New York City. The company emphasizes serving as an extension of customers’ teams to own AI search business outcomes end-to-end.

  • GovWell

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    GovWell provides an AI-first platform for local governments that includes an AI-powered Community Assistant, an intelligent application portal that prevents submission errors, and AI AutoCheck technology that reviews permit applications for compliance in seconds. The platform manages the full operational lifecycle—inspections, fee collection, notice generation, reporting, and more—from a single system. GovWell serves over 130 municipalities and counties across 34 states, powering processes for agencies serving millions of residents, and reports steep quarter-over-quarter revenue growth. Eighty percent of its sales are direct replacements of legacy vendors, with a median sales cycle of three months; customers report processing time reductions of up to 95% and the company says it has never churned a live customer. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, more than half of GovWell's team has a background in public service. The company plans to expand beyond permitting and licensing to cover additional government functions across the full stack of operations.

  • Courier Health

    Participated · Series B · Apr 2026

    Courier Health builds a platform that connects siloed patient and provider data, applies context-rich AI and intelligent workflows, and uses AI agents to automate tasks across the patient journey. Its system supports end-to-end patient interactions from education and enrollment through benefits, prior authorization, therapy initiation, and adherence. The company reported rapid commercial traction in 2025, increasing customers and therapies supported by over 400% and more than doubling headcount. Courier Health says customers achieve double-digit improvements in patient starts, time-to-start, and ongoing adherence. With the Series B, the company plans to invest in product innovation, scale its team, and expand deployment of its agentic AI capabilities to reach more biopharma customers.

  • Flock AI

    Led · Seed · Feb 2026

    Flock AI offers an AI-driven creative co-pilot that helps fashion and retail brands produce realistic, on-brand visuals at scale. Its platform trains custom models that capture more than 200 visual attributes, enabling hyper-accurate representation across ecommerce, editorial and video channels. Through reinforcement learning that incorporates creative feedback and conversion data, the system continually improves the imagery it generates. Customers report up to 90% cost savings compared with traditional photo shoots and over 30% lifts in conversion rates thanks to the increased variety and representation of content. The solution also supports one-to-one commerce by depicting diverse body types, skin tones and ages that typical budgets cannot achieve. Founded by former Bloomingdale's and Walmart merchandising executive Manvitha Mallela with computer-vision veteran Malavika Reddy, the New York-based company plans to use new capital to accelerate product development and go-to-market activities as enterprise demand grows.

  • Chamelio

    Led · Seed · Jan 2026

    Chamelio offers an end-to-end legal intelligence platform that converts unstructured legal content—such as contracts, policies, and playbooks—into a structured, searchable layer that powers every step of the legal workflow. By replacing multiple point solutions with a single system of record, the software enables legal teams to standardize drafting, negotiation, and post-signature operations while maintaining governance and control. The platform is already used by about 100 customers, including Wiz, Socure, Lightricks, Global-e, Cellebrite, and Fiverr. Chamelio’s AI continuously learns from prior negotiations and policies, ensuring institutional knowledge is preserved even as personnel or document volumes change. Founded by executives with deep legal and AI backgrounds, the company positions itself as the central intelligence layer for modern legal operations. With fresh capital, management plans to accelerate product development and broaden go-to-market initiatives across the U.S. and internationally. The recent seed round provides additional resources to meet what investors describe as strong enterprise demand for the solution.

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