Security metrics for everyone else — We’re excited to announce our investment in SeeMetrics’s $6M Seed round, alongside 8VC, Essence VC, AGP, and Verissimo Ventures. SeeMetrics is a security portfolio management platform that consolidates all metric data from across the CISO organization, helping security teams monitor the performance and efficiency of their portfolio and provide actionable…

The open-source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL We’re excited to announce our investment in CloudQuery’s $3.5M Seed round, alongside boldstart, Mango Capital, and Haystack! CloudQuery extracts, transforms, and loads your cloud assets into a SQL database, enabling DevOps and security teams to assess, audit, and monitor the configuration of their cloud assets. The Problem 2021 has been a big…

In 2020, the acceleration of digital transformation initiatives and rise of distributed workforces created wide open gaps in enterprises’ security defenses. With cybercrime reaching new heights and nation-state cyber activity intensifying, security is more important than ever. Our Work-Bench Security Perspectives 2021 Report addresses rising security concerns in the enterprise…

Automating Vendor Security Due Diligence We’re excited to announce that we led a $3M seed round in VISO Trust, with participation from Sierra Ventures and Lytical Ventures. VISO Trust fixes the broken and time intensive process of third party risk management with a platform that optimizes the speed, accuracy, and scalability of vendor due diligence…

This post was originally published in TechCrunch on January 12, 2021. While the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided for businesses, one of its main legacies is how it ushered in a tidal wave of accelerated digital transformation. A recent Twilio survey revealed that 97% of global enterprise…

We continued our “State of Enterprise Tech” Webinar Series this week spotlighting “The State of Automation” with a panel of experts from the startup and corporate ecosystem, including Harald Collet, CEO and Co-Founder of Alkymi, Preeti Asthana, Director of Innovation & Partners, Data & Analytic Services at Aon, and Elizabeth…

We recently launched our “State of Enterprise Tech” Webinar Series, which kicked off with our first webinar on “The State of AI.” Our panel of corporate and startup leaders, including Adam Wenchel, CEO and Co-Founder of Arthur, Olga Lagunova, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, VP Commerce Cloud Technologies at Pitney…

With over eight years of New York Enterprise Tech Meetup (NYETM) under our belt, bringing together the enterprise tech community of Fortune 500 execs, enterprise startups, and investors in NYC, we’re now in full swing hosting the NYETM online with our second virtual meetup earlier this week. This month’s NYETM…

Here at Work-Bench, we understand that getting in front of CxOs is tough and standing out from the crowd during COVID-19 can be even more difficult. …