Announcing Our Investment in Prequel
We're thrilled to announce that Work-Bench has led Prequel's $3.3M Seed round, with participation from Runtime Ventures, Operator Partners, and founders of category-defining infrastructure companies including Shay Banon (Elastic), Jon Oberheide (Duo Security), Monica Sarbu (Xata), and Andrew Morris (GreyNoise).
As applications grow more complex, DevOps and SRE teams face mounting challenges: managing diverse technology stacks with limited expertise, working across siloed teams, dealing with overwhelming telemetry data, relying on customers rather than proactive detection, and struggling with time-consuming manual instrumentation.
Co-founders, Lyndon Brown and Tony Meehan have decades of experience in security detection and response and leading engineering teams at Elastic, Endgame, and the National Security Agency (NSA). But what truly sets them apart, is their genuine drive to make life easier for DevOps and SRE teams — a mission that resonates deeply with us at Work-Bench.
Prequel is a problem detection and management platform featuring an out-of-the-box detection library, a problem detection community (detect.sh), and the industry’s first reliability research team. Prequel helps DevOps teams quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues across open-source software, misconfigurations, and developer-introduced bugs. The platform is already used by leading technology companies in FinTech, Infrastructure, and SaaS, dramatically reducing incident detection and resolution times.
The team's technical expertise and commitment to solving DevOps challenges, makes them an incredible force in the infrastructure space and is positioned to transform how teams manage and maintain complex software systems. Congratulations to Lyndon, Tony, and the entire Prequel team!
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