Exited Founders Dinner

​​Work-Bench and Zac Smith are hosting an intimate dinner for NYC-based founders who have recently exited their companies and are thinking about what's next. Join us for a conversation not just about the highs and lows of exiting, but more importantly, about the exciting new possibilities and opportunities that lie ahead with others on a similar journey.


More on Zac: Zac co-founded Packet in 2014 to empower enterprises with automated bare metal infrastructure. Backed by SoftBank, Dell Technologies, Third Point and Battery Ventures, Packet became the leader in bare metal compute automation and was acquired by Equinix in March 2020. Zac served as the Head of Edge Infrastructure at Equinix until June 2023. Today, Zac is an avid angel investor and startup advisor.  

​​More on Work-Bench: Work-Bench is a $125M+ seed-stage venture capital fund based in NYC, dedicated to enterprise software. The firm focuses on accelerating their portfolio through the 0-1 phase and invests across data/AI/ML, infrastructure and developer tools, cybersecurity, and enterprise applications, and are early-investors in companies like Cockroach Labs, Dialpad, Socure, Spring Health, Courier Health, Authzed, Firehydrant, and many more.