Work-Bench
ActiveFiled to raiseNew York, NYLast fund filed 2023Website
2 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work-Bench Ventures IVFiled to raise in 2023, with no closing reported yet. | 2023 | $125M | $0 | 0 |
| Work-Bench Ventures Select FundFiled to raise in 2022, with no closing reported yet. | 2022 | $30M | $0 | 0 |
| Work-Bench Ventures III-AFiled to raise in 2021, with no closing reported yet. | 2021 | $100M | $0 | 0 |
| Work-Bench Ventures IIIFiled to raise in 2020, with no closing reported yet. | 2020 | $100M | $0 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
2 partners are named across this firm’s filings, 2 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Lehr | Selective | AI & machine learning, Developer tools & infrastructure, Enterprise software | 5 |
Classified sectors of Work-Bench’s own portfolio companies, based on 9 with a verified or cited source.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Aspect Ventures | 1 | Arthur AI |
| Cota Capital Institutional Partners | 1 | Pronto Technology |
| Cota Capital Partners | 1 | Pronto Technology |
| Cota Enterprise Ventures |
| 0 |
| Work-Bench Kelethin | October 2019 | $79,000 | $79,000 | 4 |
| Work-Bench Ventures II | May 2017 | $46M | $46M | 35 |
| 3 |
| Jessica Lin | Slowing | Enterprise software, E-commerce & marketplaces, HR & future of work | 6 | 1 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Work-Bench’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| 1 |
| Pronto Technology |
| Cota Fintech Ventures | 1 | Pronto Technology |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Work-Bench partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.