Work-Bench

Work-Bench Co-Op, LLC is a venture capital firm based in New York City, founded in 2012. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, primarily targeting Seed 2 and Series A rounds. Work-Bench focuses on sectors such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, cloud-native infrastructure, and the future of work. By investing in enterprise technology startups, the firm aims to support companies that are addressing significant challenges in big data, advanced analytics, and enterprise infrastructure. In addition to financial backing, Work-Bench provides workspace, community support, and corporate engagement to facilitate customer acquisition and product validation, particularly with Fortune 1000 corporations. The firm is committed to fostering innovation and growth within the technology sector across the United States.

Jonathan Lehr

Co-Founder and General Partner

Jessica Lin

Co-Founder and General Partner

Kelley Mak

General Partner

Hugo Van Vuuren

Co-Founder and Board Member

57 past transactions

CloudQuery

Series A in 2022
Developer of a data integration platform designed to help developers solve compliance, security, and visibility challenges in the cloud with SQL. The company's platform transforms cloud infrastructure into queryable SQL for easy monitoring, governance, and security where they pull, normalize, expose, and monitor cloud infrastructure, enabling businesses to get support in query management, monitoring, and analysis of cloud infrastructure.

RippleMatch

Series B in 2022
RippleMatch Inc. is an online recruiting service founded in 2015 and based in New York, New York. The company aims to assist entry-level candidates in finding suitable job opportunities by automating early career recruiting and career coaching. By leveraging artificial intelligence, RippleMatch streamlines the job search process, allowing candidates to connect with employers more effectively while removing geographic barriers. The platform is designed to enhance the candidate experience and ensure that companies are matched with high-potential candidates, particularly from diverse backgrounds. RippleMatch has gained traction on college campuses and has attracted significant venture funding, enabling it to collaborate with a range of prominent companies across the country. Through its innovative approach, RippleMatch addresses the challenges faced by students and recent graduates in navigating the job market.

SeeMetrics

Seed Round in 2022
SeeMetrics is a cybersecurity performance management platform that enables security leaders to effectively measure, track, and enhance their operations. The platform integrates security data, metrics, and business objectives into a user-friendly interface, connecting with the entire security stack to extract relevant information. By delivering meaningful metrics, SeeMetrics empowers security leaders to proactively manage their operations, assess their capabilities, and monitor progress. Additionally, the platform facilitates collaboration between security leaders and non-security stakeholders, allowing for informed, data-driven decision-making.

VISO Trust

Series A in 2022
VISO Trust is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in vendor security due diligence. The company has developed a platform that provides comprehensive and actionable information regarding vendor security risks. This platform enables decision-makers to conduct informed risk assessments and make sound security choices by streamlining the vendor review process. By delivering reliable data, VISO Trust assists enterprises in managing third-party security risks effectively and transparently, ultimately enhancing their overall cybersecurity posture.

ApertureData

Seed Round in 2022
We manage visual data so companies can make machines learn better

Permiso

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a cloud security software designed to detect threats in the cloud interface. The company's software gives a library of detection signals that feed into the unified threat prevention, detection, and response platform to provide unprecedented visibility into the cloud environments, it creates a single pane of glass for identities across IdPs, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and CI/CD pipelines to find the riskiest actors in your environments and detect malicious or suspicious activity even when it crosses authentication or technology boundaries, enabling businesses to grow while being protected.

Dialpad

Series F in 2021
Dialpad, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in enterprise communications. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services including voice, video, group messaging, SMS, MMS, conferencing, and document sharing, all powered by advanced AI technologies. Its products, such as Dialpad, Dialpad Sell, UberConference, and Dialpad Contact Center, are designed to enhance collaboration and streamline communication for teams working remotely. Notably, Dialpad provides features like real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment analysis, and voice analytics, which help organizations optimize their interactions and improve decision-making. The company was founded in 2011 and has established a diverse customer base that includes notable names like Motorola Solutions and Warby Parker. Dialpad has also formed strategic alliances with major investors, including SoftBank Corp. and Salesforce Ventures, to further its mission in transforming enterprise communication.

CloudQuery

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a data integration platform designed to help developers solve compliance, security, and visibility challenges in the cloud with SQL. The company's platform transforms cloud infrastructure into queryable SQL for easy monitoring, governance, and security where they pull, normalize, expose, and monitor cloud infrastructure, enabling businesses to get support in query management, monitoring, and analysis of cloud infrastructure.

Wabbi

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a development operations infrastructure platform designed to make security scalable across development pipelines. The company's platform offers various services such as policy management, project analysis, and automated governance to achieve control of security issues as part of development workflows to prevent bottlenecks and drag on the backlog, enabling clients to reduce risk and improve developer productivity.

Spring Health

Series C in 2021
Spring Health is a behavioral healthcare service provider that focuses on improving employee mental well-being through personalized care solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes proprietary assessments and machine-learning technology to evaluate the mental health conditions of individuals. Based on these evaluations, Spring Health matches employees to tailored care plans suited to their unique needs. Each member is supported by a Care Navigator who assists in exploring options, booking appointments with therapists, and connecting with experts in various fields, including work-life, legal, and financial services. By offering a comprehensive and effective approach to mental health care, Spring Health aims to enhance behavioral health benefits for employers and their employees.

FireHydrant

Series B in 2021
FireHydrant, Inc. specializes in incident management software that assists teams in effectively addressing and learning from incidents. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides tools that streamline the incident response process, offering features such as impact reports, incident roles, and integrated alerts. This modern solution serves Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams, enabling them to resolve current issues while also facilitating future incident mitigation.

Courier Health

Venture Round in 2021
Courier Health develops a patient engagement platform designed to deliver personalized experiences from end to end. The platform offers seamless and compliant coordination, predictive intelligence and real-time analytics, enabling healthcare organizations to ensure compliant and efficient operations.

VISO Trust

Seed Round in 2021
VISO Trust is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in vendor security due diligence. The company has developed a platform that provides comprehensive and actionable information regarding vendor security risks. This platform enables decision-makers to conduct informed risk assessments and make sound security choices by streamlining the vendor review process. By delivering reliable data, VISO Trust assists enterprises in managing third-party security risks effectively and transparently, ultimately enhancing their overall cybersecurity posture.

Authzed

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of API service management platform intended to support developers to build permissions in their applications. The company plans to offer an API to store, compute, and validate application permissions and secure authorization that scales, enabling developers to design, validate, and iterate before spending time integrating with their applications.

RippleMatch

Venture Round in 2021
RippleMatch Inc. is an online recruiting service founded in 2015 and based in New York, New York. The company aims to assist entry-level candidates in finding suitable job opportunities by automating early career recruiting and career coaching. By leveraging artificial intelligence, RippleMatch streamlines the job search process, allowing candidates to connect with employers more effectively while removing geographic barriers. The platform is designed to enhance the candidate experience and ensure that companies are matched with high-potential candidates, particularly from diverse backgrounds. RippleMatch has gained traction on college campuses and has attracted significant venture funding, enabling it to collaborate with a range of prominent companies across the country. Through its innovative approach, RippleMatch addresses the challenges faced by students and recent graduates in navigating the job market.

RippleMatch

Venture Round in 2021
RippleMatch Inc. is an online recruiting service founded in 2015 and based in New York, New York. The company aims to assist entry-level candidates in finding suitable job opportunities by automating early career recruiting and career coaching. By leveraging artificial intelligence, RippleMatch streamlines the job search process, allowing candidates to connect with employers more effectively while removing geographic barriers. The platform is designed to enhance the candidate experience and ensure that companies are matched with high-potential candidates, particularly from diverse backgrounds. RippleMatch has gained traction on college campuses and has attracted significant venture funding, enabling it to collaborate with a range of prominent companies across the country. Through its innovative approach, RippleMatch addresses the challenges faced by students and recent graduates in navigating the job market.

AppLand

Seed Round in 2021
AppLand builds beautiful interactive code analyses tools to help developers, and there companies, efficiently deliver their best quality software.

ArthurAI

Series A in 2020
ArthurAI is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in providing a centralized platform for monitoring and auditing artificial intelligence models. The platform is designed to maintain control over production models and enhance their productivity. ArthurAI collaborates with leading organizations across various sectors, including financial services, insurance, and healthcare, to develop and deploy enterprise-grade AI systems. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to ensure the reliability and effectiveness of machine learning applications in critical industries.

Spring Health

Series B in 2020
Spring Health is a behavioral healthcare service provider that focuses on improving employee mental well-being through personalized care solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes proprietary assessments and machine-learning technology to evaluate the mental health conditions of individuals. Based on these evaluations, Spring Health matches employees to tailored care plans suited to their unique needs. Each member is supported by a Care Navigator who assists in exploring options, booking appointments with therapists, and connecting with experts in various fields, including work-life, legal, and financial services. By offering a comprehensive and effective approach to mental health care, Spring Health aims to enhance behavioral health benefits for employers and their employees.

Shipyard

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of an automated application deployment platform designed to remove the complexity of creating and managing an unlimited number of ephemeral development environments. The company's platform seamlessly integrates into a company's existing development workflow and manages ephemeral environments for development, QA, product, and sales teams, enabling engineers and product managers to rapidly build, share, test, and deploy the application and product updates.

Dialpad

Series E in 2020
Dialpad, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in enterprise communications. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services including voice, video, group messaging, SMS, MMS, conferencing, and document sharing, all powered by advanced AI technologies. Its products, such as Dialpad, Dialpad Sell, UberConference, and Dialpad Contact Center, are designed to enhance collaboration and streamline communication for teams working remotely. Notably, Dialpad provides features like real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment analysis, and voice analytics, which help organizations optimize their interactions and improve decision-making. The company was founded in 2011 and has established a diverse customer base that includes notable names like Motorola Solutions and Warby Parker. Dialpad has also formed strategic alliances with major investors, including SoftBank Corp. and Salesforce Ventures, to further its mission in transforming enterprise communication.

Leapfin

Seed Round in 2020
Leapfin is a unified financial data platform tailored for high-growth businesses. It automates complex and manual revenue processes, providing leaders with instant access to accurate and actionable financial information. Designed for scalability, Leapfin serves notable customers such as Flexport, Vimeo, Canva, Top Hat, and Pantheon, streamlining financial operations to enhance efficiency and decision-making.

Catalyst.

Series B in 2020
Catalyst Software Corporation specializes in developing a customer success platform that assists businesses in managing customer relationships effectively. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is designed to help companies reduce churn and enhance customer experience by providing tools such as analytics, workflow automation, and a unified dashboard. Key features of the platform include product usage tracking, a task manager for consolidating communications, an automatic logging system for customer interactions, and capabilities for segmenting accounts and contacts. Additionally, the platform offers automated alerts to help customer success managers identify and address potential issues, thereby fostering product adoption and customer satisfaction. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Catalyst aims to empower organizations to proactively engage with their customers and drive business growth.

FireHydrant

Series A in 2020
FireHydrant, Inc. specializes in incident management software that assists teams in effectively addressing and learning from incidents. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides tools that streamline the incident response process, offering features such as impact reports, incident roles, and integrated alerts. This modern solution serves Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams, enabling them to resolve current issues while also facilitating future incident mitigation.

Alkymi

Seed Round in 2020
Alkymi, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing a data inbox designed for enterprises to manage unstructured data effectively. Founded in 2017, Alkymi's platform automates the extraction and normalization of data from various sources, including emails, documents, PDFs, images, and XML, enabling organizations to make real-time decisions and take action. By leveraging advanced machine learning and automation technologies, Alkymi streamlines the data processing workflow, allowing users in sectors such as financial services, operations, compliance, and sales to handle large volumes of unstructured data with ease. This innovation helps eliminate the complexities associated with data management, ultimately enhancing productivity and decision-making capabilities within enterprises.

ArthurAI

Seed Round in 2019
ArthurAI is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in providing a centralized platform for monitoring and auditing artificial intelligence models. The platform is designed to maintain control over production models and enhance their productivity. ArthurAI collaborates with leading organizations across various sectors, including financial services, insurance, and healthcare, to develop and deploy enterprise-grade AI systems. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to ensure the reliability and effectiveness of machine learning applications in critical industries.

RippleMatch

Series A in 2019
RippleMatch Inc. is an online recruiting service founded in 2015 and based in New York, New York. The company aims to assist entry-level candidates in finding suitable job opportunities by automating early career recruiting and career coaching. By leveraging artificial intelligence, RippleMatch streamlines the job search process, allowing candidates to connect with employers more effectively while removing geographic barriers. The platform is designed to enhance the candidate experience and ensure that companies are matched with high-potential candidates, particularly from diverse backgrounds. RippleMatch has gained traction on college campuses and has attracted significant venture funding, enabling it to collaborate with a range of prominent companies across the country. Through its innovative approach, RippleMatch addresses the challenges faced by students and recent graduates in navigating the job market.

Cockroach Labs

Series C in 2019
Cockroach Labs, Inc. specializes in developing open-source database software, notably CockroachDB, which is a distributed SQL database tailored for modern cloud applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company also has an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CockroachDB is designed to scale horizontally and can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, while maintaining minimal latency and no need for manual intervention. It supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data management. The software is suitable for diverse clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and is utilized for enterprise-grade disaster recovery services. CockroachDB combines the rich features of SQL with the scalability typically associated with NoSQL databases, enabling developers to innovate rapidly without compromising on consistency. The platform is trusted by major enterprises across various sectors, including finance, retail, and media.

Algorithmia

Series B in 2019
Algorithmia, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that provides a platform for deploying and managing machine learning models, focusing on automating the MLOps process for organizations. Founded in 2013, Algorithmia enables developers and data scientists to explore, create, and share algorithms as web services, facilitating the integration of machine learning into various applications. The platform supports popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and MXNet, and can handle a high volume of concurrent algorithm requests. Additionally, Algorithmia hosts a public marketplace for algorithms, offering enterprise customers a reliable solution for their mission-critical workloads.

FireHydrant

Seed Round in 2019
FireHydrant, Inc. specializes in incident management software that assists teams in effectively addressing and learning from incidents. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides tools that streamline the incident response process, offering features such as impact reports, incident roles, and integrated alerts. This modern solution serves Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams, enabling them to resolve current issues while also facilitating future incident mitigation.

Scytale.io

Series A in 2019
Scytale Inc. is a technology company that specializes in identity management solutions for cloud, container, and on-premise infrastructures. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers Scytale Enterprise to standardize service authentication across various cloud platforms and Scytale Essentials, an annual subscription service that provides essential bug fixes and security updates for its SPIRE distribution. Additionally, Scytale provides advisory services through Scytale Professional Services, helping enterprises with the planning, deployment, and scaling of SPIRE. The company also contributes to open-source projects designed to facilitate service identity for microservices in cloud and container environments. Founded by experienced engineers from leading technology firms, Scytale aims to help organizations navigate the complexities of modern enterprise IT and enhance the security and efficiency of their distributed software systems.

Catalyst.

Venture Round in 2018
Catalyst Software Corporation specializes in developing a customer success platform that assists businesses in managing customer relationships effectively. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is designed to help companies reduce churn and enhance customer experience by providing tools such as analytics, workflow automation, and a unified dashboard. Key features of the platform include product usage tracking, a task manager for consolidating communications, an automatic logging system for customer interactions, and capabilities for segmenting accounts and contacts. Additionally, the platform offers automated alerts to help customer success managers identify and address potential issues, thereby fostering product adoption and customer satisfaction. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Catalyst aims to empower organizations to proactively engage with their customers and drive business growth.

Semmle

Series B in 2018
Semmle Ltd is a company that develops an engineering analytics platform aimed at enhancing the software development process. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom, with additional offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, New York, Valencia, and Copenhagen, Semmle provides tools for analyzing software code quality alongside various development metrics, including development cost, issue tickets, and test coverage. Its products, such as LGTM and QL, facilitate both technical and strategic decision-making by enabling users to identify bugs and create a comprehensive knowledge base from their development data. Semmle serves a diverse clientele, including notable organizations like Citi, Credit Suisse, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Dell. As of September 2019, Semmle operates as a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc.

Dialpad

Series D in 2018
Dialpad, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in enterprise communications. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services including voice, video, group messaging, SMS, MMS, conferencing, and document sharing, all powered by advanced AI technologies. Its products, such as Dialpad, Dialpad Sell, UberConference, and Dialpad Contact Center, are designed to enhance collaboration and streamline communication for teams working remotely. Notably, Dialpad provides features like real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment analysis, and voice analytics, which help organizations optimize their interactions and improve decision-making. The company was founded in 2011 and has established a diverse customer base that includes notable names like Motorola Solutions and Warby Parker. Dialpad has also formed strategic alliances with major investors, including SoftBank Corp. and Salesforce Ventures, to further its mission in transforming enterprise communication.

Spring Health

Seed Round in 2018
Spring Health is a behavioral healthcare service provider that focuses on improving employee mental well-being through personalized care solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes proprietary assessments and machine-learning technology to evaluate the mental health conditions of individuals. Based on these evaluations, Spring Health matches employees to tailored care plans suited to their unique needs. Each member is supported by a Care Navigator who assists in exploring options, booking appointments with therapists, and connecting with experts in various fields, including work-life, legal, and financial services. By offering a comprehensive and effective approach to mental health care, Spring Health aims to enhance behavioral health benefits for employers and their employees.

Spring Health

Seed Round in 2018
Spring Health is a behavioral healthcare service provider that focuses on improving employee mental well-being through personalized care solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes proprietary assessments and machine-learning technology to evaluate the mental health conditions of individuals. Based on these evaluations, Spring Health matches employees to tailored care plans suited to their unique needs. Each member is supported by a Care Navigator who assists in exploring options, booking appointments with therapists, and connecting with experts in various fields, including work-life, legal, and financial services. By offering a comprehensive and effective approach to mental health care, Spring Health aims to enhance behavioral health benefits for employers and their employees.

Uplevel Security

Seed Round in 2018
Uplevel Security is the industry’s first adaptive system of intelligence that uses graph theory and machine learning to modernize security operations. Uplevel Security ingests and contextualizes incoming and historical security data, allowing the past to inform the present and the present to inform the past, which predicts how attacks may manifest in the future. Enterprises rely on Uplevel Security to activate intelligence from the security stack, provide a system of record for security data and become stronger with every attack.

Socure

Series B in 2017
Socure Inc. specializes in digital identity verification solutions through its Socure ID+ platform, which utilizes predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to authenticate identities in real-time. The platform aggregates data from various online and offline sources, such as emails, phone numbers, and social media, to support compliance with customer identification programs, know your customer guidelines, and anti-money laundering regulations. In addition to the Socure ID+ platform, the company offers tools like Aida, an AI-driven bot for identity validation, Docv for document verification, and Sigma Synthetic Fraud, which addresses synthetic identity fraud. Socure enhances financial inclusion by approving a significant percentage of millennial and thin-file consumers while substantially reducing fraud in online account openings. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Socure serves a diverse clientele, including software firms, financial institutions, and integration partners, and has established a strategic partnership with ForgeRock.

Algorithmia

Series A in 2017
Algorithmia, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that provides a platform for deploying and managing machine learning models, focusing on automating the MLOps process for organizations. Founded in 2013, Algorithmia enables developers and data scientists to explore, create, and share algorithms as web services, facilitating the integration of machine learning into various applications. The platform supports popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and MXNet, and can handle a high volume of concurrent algorithm requests. Additionally, Algorithmia hosts a public marketplace for algorithms, offering enterprise customers a reliable solution for their mission-critical workloads.

Merlon Intelligence

Seed Round in 2017
Merlon Intelligence, Inc. is a global compliance technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing risk management and compliance solutions for the financial industry. Founded in 2016, the company offers a suite of services designed to enhance compliance processes for banks and financial institutions. Its key products include Merlon Intelligent Screening, which automates customer screening by analyzing news and information; Merlon Intelligent List Management, which manages sanction lists related to financial crimes; Merlon Intelligent Assessment, a platform that streamlines customer risk assessments; and Merlon Intelligent Triage, which aids compliance analysts by aggregating and organizing relevant customer information. By providing these innovative solutions, Merlon Intelligence aims to help financial institutions mitigate risk and combat money laundering effectively.

Backtrace

Series A in 2016
Backtrace I/O, Inc. is a developer of an advanced error debugging platform designed for native applications, primarily targeting software developers in various industries, including gaming and device engineering. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company's platform enhances software reliability and quality by automating the detection, response, and resolution of incidents. It captures detailed snapshots of failing application states, analyzes the data efficiently, and archives it in a centralized database. This approach allows developers to identify errors quickly, understand their root causes, and mitigate the risk of customer loss due to software crashes. Backtrace's innovative technology aims to streamline the debugging process, facilitating improved system availability and overall software performance.

vArmour

Series D in 2016
vArmour Networks, Inc. specializes in software-defined security solutions tailored for virtualized data centers, catering to service providers, enterprises, and government cloud operators both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of security tools, including its SDSec platform, which creates a network-based security enforcement layer suitable for cloud computing environments. This platform effectively separates the security control plane from the enforcement plane, enhancing visibility and control over critical applications and workloads across multi-cloud infrastructures. vArmour's vendor-agnostic multi-cloud security architecture is particularly beneficial for organizations in heavily regulated sectors, allowing for streamlined management of data and security policies across diverse cloud environments. The company also maintains a strategic partnership with Tufin to further enhance its offerings.

CoreOS

Series B in 2016
CoreOS, Inc. specializes in developing open source projects for Linux containers and providing security software solutions. The company offers Tectonic, a comprehensive platform that enhances Kubernetes with enterprise features for efficient container orchestration. CoreOS also provides Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers, along with CoreOS, a security tool for managing Linux applications. Additionally, it features CoreUpdate, a tool designed for managing rolling updates of applications. CoreOS maintains several significant open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt, contributing to the infrastructure needs of modern distributed systems. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS operates as a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.

x.ai

Series B in 2016
X.ai is an artificial intelligence-driven personal assistant that schedules meetings. X.ai builds and maintains an artificial intelligence-powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for the business customers. Backed by its founders and located in New York City. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Cockroach Labs

Series A in 2016
Cockroach Labs, Inc. specializes in developing open-source database software, notably CockroachDB, which is a distributed SQL database tailored for modern cloud applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company also has an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CockroachDB is designed to scale horizontally and can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, while maintaining minimal latency and no need for manual intervention. It supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data management. The software is suitable for diverse clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and is utilized for enterprise-grade disaster recovery services. CockroachDB combines the rich features of SQL with the scalability typically associated with NoSQL databases, enabling developers to innovate rapidly without compromising on consistency. The platform is trusted by major enterprises across various sectors, including finance, retail, and media.

Oration

Series A in 2015
Oration PBC is a cloud-based platform that offers prescription savings services to individuals and organizations across the United States. The platform facilitates the management of prescription transactions and provides users with pricing information for their medications. Additionally, it analyzes prescription claims from companies, delivering solutions that help both businesses and employees reduce their prescription expenses. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Oration PBC has gained significant traction in the healthcare sector, analyzing over one billion dollars in healthcare transactions in collaboration with major corporations. The company aims to address the complexities of the American healthcare system by creating impactful solutions for its users.

Socure

Debt Financing in 2015
Socure Inc. specializes in digital identity verification solutions through its Socure ID+ platform, which utilizes predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to authenticate identities in real-time. The platform aggregates data from various online and offline sources, such as emails, phone numbers, and social media, to support compliance with customer identification programs, know your customer guidelines, and anti-money laundering regulations. In addition to the Socure ID+ platform, the company offers tools like Aida, an AI-driven bot for identity validation, Docv for document verification, and Sigma Synthetic Fraud, which addresses synthetic identity fraud. Socure enhances financial inclusion by approving a significant percentage of millennial and thin-file consumers while substantially reducing fraud in online account openings. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Socure serves a diverse clientele, including software firms, financial institutions, and integration partners, and has established a strategic partnership with ForgeRock.

VTS

Series B in 2015
VTS operates a comprehensive leasing and asset management platform tailored for commercial real estate professionals. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, the company facilitates collaboration among landlords, brokers, and tenants, streamlining workflows and enhancing deal-making efficiency. The platform centralizes critical data, allowing users to track leases, manage assets, and analyze portfolio performance in one location. Additionally, VTS provides tools for creating custom alerts and reports, enabling users to gain valuable insights and make informed decisions quickly. With over 7 billion square feet managed on its platform, VTS serves a diverse clientele that includes leading firms in the commercial real estate sector, helping them optimize performance and improve tenant relations.

Tamr

Series B in 2015
Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise. Following the success of initial research at MIT CSAIL, the Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale, quickly and cost effectively. Launched in the spring of 2014 and backed by a series of investors, such as Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, Tamr is deployed in production at a variety organizations, including information services providers, pharmaceutical firms and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner and Alex Pagan.

Dialpad

Series C in 2015
Dialpad, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in enterprise communications. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services including voice, video, group messaging, SMS, MMS, conferencing, and document sharing, all powered by advanced AI technologies. Its products, such as Dialpad, Dialpad Sell, UberConference, and Dialpad Contact Center, are designed to enhance collaboration and streamline communication for teams working remotely. Notably, Dialpad provides features like real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment analysis, and voice analytics, which help organizations optimize their interactions and improve decision-making. The company was founded in 2011 and has established a diverse customer base that includes notable names like Motorola Solutions and Warby Parker. Dialpad has also formed strategic alliances with major investors, including SoftBank Corp. and Salesforce Ventures, to further its mission in transforming enterprise communication.

Metric Insights

Seed Round in 2014
Metric Insights, Inc. offers a push intelligence platform that helps businesses monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) by integrating data from various sources, including business intelligence tools, big data, and SaaS applications. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a development facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, the platform notifies users of significant changes in metrics and uncovers anomalies, enabling informed, data-driven decision-making. By combining metrics with insightful metadata, Metric Insights reveals correlations between disparate data sources, facilitating a clearer understanding of business performance. The company's solutions cater to various sectors, including big data, healthcare, external reporting, and human capital, effectively addressing the challenges of data clutter and enhancing operational efficiency.

vArmour

Series C in 2014
vArmour Networks, Inc. specializes in software-defined security solutions tailored for virtualized data centers, catering to service providers, enterprises, and government cloud operators both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of security tools, including its SDSec platform, which creates a network-based security enforcement layer suitable for cloud computing environments. This platform effectively separates the security control plane from the enforcement plane, enhancing visibility and control over critical applications and workloads across multi-cloud infrastructures. vArmour's vendor-agnostic multi-cloud security architecture is particularly beneficial for organizations in heavily regulated sectors, allowing for streamlined management of data and security policies across diverse cloud environments. The company also maintains a strategic partnership with Tufin to further enhance its offerings.

Upskill

Series A in 2014
Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

Versive

Series B in 2014
Versive, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based applications to help enterprises manage and mitigate cybersecurity threats. Founded in 2012 and based in Seattle, Washington, with additional offices in New York, Menlo Park, and London, Versive offers the Versive Security Engine (VSE). This solution enhances security teams' capabilities by automating the detection of advanced persistent threats, insider threats, and malicious activities, while also facilitating early warnings for data exfiltration and ensuring regulatory compliance. VSE is designed to uncover significant threats amidst the noise of everyday network activity, providing actionable insights into adversary campaigns. It operates effectively in both on-premises and cloud environments, serving as a crucial component in an organization's security framework by identifying and addressing internal and external threats efficiently. As of 2018, Versive operates as a subsidiary of eSentire Inc.

Kensho

Seed Round in 2014
Kensho Technologies, Inc. is a data analytics and machine intelligence company that specializes in providing advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning solutions to banks and investment institutions worldwide. Founded in 2013 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in New York, Virginia, and California, Kensho develops a suite of financial analytics software designed to enhance decision-making across the financial sector. Its flagship product incorporates natural language processing, enabling users to pose complex financial questions in plain English and receive actionable insights. The company also offers Kensho Applied Mind, an AI-driven software, and operates a national security division called Koto. Kensho's team comprises experts from prestigious backgrounds, including alumni from MIT, Harvard, Google, and the United States Federal Reserve, underscoring its commitment to addressing the challenges of speed, scale, and automation in investment analysis. Since its incorporation, Kensho has positioned itself as a key player in solving some of the most demanding analytical problems faced by both government and commercial entities.

True Office Learning

Series A in 2013
True Office Learning is a leading enterprise education and analytics company that connects e-learning to advanced behavioral data through an adaptive technology platform to drive results. The company’s cloud-based software provides organizational insights that were previously immeasurable, enabling organizations to ensure learning, analyze efficacy, and drive better business outcomes.
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