Work-Bench Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in enterprise technology companies that is headquartered in New York City, New York and was founded in 2012 by Hugo Van Vuuren, Jessica Lin, Jonathan Lehr, and Tom Carroll. The firm typically makes seed 2 and series A investments in American companies worth $1.5 million.Technologies the firm is focused on investing in are: artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud native infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the future of the workplace.
On December 13, 2018 Work-Bench Ventures announced raising $47 million in funding for their Fund II venture capital fund. Investors contributing to Fund II include: Industry Ventures, an unnamed family office in Chicago, Wipro, Schneider Electric, CA Technologies, Craig Walker, Andy Palmer, and Tim Eades.
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