Q3 Highlights: NY Enterprise Tech Meetup Back IRL, Portfolio Wins, and More
NYC is back! 🥳
Nothing proved this more than bringing our flagship NY Enterprise Tech Meetup back IRL this month. We were blown away by the energy and excitement from our ‘suits and hoodies’ community! In true Work-Bench fashion, we hosted a tactical panel on one of the hottest topics in the enterprise right now: “How PLG Enables Hypergrowth” with senior leaders from Snyk, MongoDB, and Elementl.
This capped off a very busy summer bringing together our NYC enterprise community for an Infrastructure Dinner, Sailing on the Hudson with Data Leaders, Enterprise Open-Source Software Playbook Session, and Legal Review & Tactics Session.
It's also been a blast to be out and about in NYC speaking at events and sharing our enterprise perspective, including building an infra and OSS company with Influx at the Primary NYC Summit, how to manage a board, best advice for fundraising, and how we’ve been building our #Womenterprise community.
We continue to bring together enterprise leaders to share their top playbooks - join our upcoming sessions:
💻 Virtual Masterclass on 10/18: 5 Experiments to Find a Winning Developer Acquisition Strategy with Martin Gontovnikas (GP & B2B Growth Advisor at HyperGrowth Partners)
🍺 IRL NY Enterprise Tech Meetup on 11/2: How to Leverage Product To Fuel Your GTM with Shiven Ramji (CPO of Auth0/Okta) and Monica Ugwi (VP of Product, UX, Docs at RudderStack)
*RSVP link will be hitting your inboxes next week
Wishing you the best of luck for a strong Q4 ahead!
- Jessica Lin
🎉 Congrats to our Portfolio Companies 🎉
Pace raised a $5M Seed led by Work-Bench.
Read more about the product-led revenue platform on Pace’s blog.Leapfin raised a $12.2M Series A led by Crosslink Capital.
Read more about the revenue-close automation platform in TechCrunch.
Arthur raised a $42M Series B led by Acrew Capital and Greycroft.
Read more about the AI performance platform in TechCrunch.
📚 Our Recent Resources 📚
3 Acts of Growth: Lessons, Patterns & Mistakes from a 3x Entrepreneur
Get the real talk on what Bob Tinker calls the “3 Acts of Growth:” surviving to product market fit, finding GTM fit, and un-learning old habits that don’t work at scale.
Enterprise Playbook: Legal Contract Negotiation & Review Tactics
Learn the best practices for negotiating terms in SaaS contracts (provider services, IP rights, indemnification, liability limitation, termination) and an MSA review checklist.
Security Dashboards For Everyone Else
Learn how security dashboards can help solve the most challenging part of security - providing actionable guidance on how to be secure.
Modern Data Warehouses Expanding Horizons for New Data Architectures
Deep dive into the evolution of the modern data warehouse and what it means for the future of big data and creation of next-gen stream processing systems.
Building with Serverless: A 2022 Review
Read about the major challenges and biggest opportunities for Serverless’ mass adoption: cost predictability, effort, responsibility, security overhead, and more.
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Fundraising Workshop - Enterprise SaaS Edition
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How to Manage Your Cloud Assets in AWS with CloudQuery
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The 11 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of June 2022
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