Jonathan Lehr is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Work-Bench. See sector focus and contact routes.
Jonathan Lehr is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Work-Bench, an enterprise-focused venture capital firm based in New York, where he previously worked at Morgan Stanley in the Office of the CIO facilitating startup onboarding. His investment thesis targets early-stage enterprise software startups across the United States, specifically leading pre-seed and seed rounds in sectors including AI, machine learning, cloud-native infrastructure, cybersecurity, and developer tools. Work-Bench typically writes stated seed checks of $3 million to $6 million and acts as a lead investor rather than a follower in these transactions. Lehr serves on the boards of notable portfolio companies such as FireHydrant and AppMap, and he led Cockroach Labs from its seed stage through its growth into a unicorn. A distinctive point of his approach is systematically mining problems from Fortune 500 leaders first before finding startups to solve them, rather than starting with founder pitches. He also founded and runs the New York Enterprise Technology Meetup, a community of over 10,000 members that serves as both a collaboration asset and a deal-sourcing engine for the enterprise
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