WorkOS: Investing in Developer Infrastructure for Enterprise Readiness

Every up-and-coming SaaS & AI company has experienced the same frustration — deals that stalled not because their product wasn’t good enough, but because it lacked an enterprise requirement. For years, “becoming enterprise ready” was a months-long engineering detour that pulled team capacity away from building new capabilities that differentiate their product and that customers love. WorkOS eliminates that detour entirely.

That’s why we’re thrilled to partner with the WorkOS team and founder Michael Grinich through the company’s $100M Series C, alongside lead investors Meritech and Sapphire Ventures. WorkOS is the developer infrastructure platform that enables technology companies to “become enterprise ready” and unlock enterprise sales in days, not quarters.

With WorkOS, customers can offer enterprise-grade features, such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Directory Sync, Role-Based Access Control, and many more — quickly. WorkOS dramatically simplifies historically painful capabilities to build and absorbs the long tail of standards, edge cases, and ongoing maintenance so product and engineering teams don’t have to. The result is leverage. Companies sell to larger customers sooner, shorten sales cycles, and avoid the technical debt of rebuilding infrastructure as they scale.

Our conviction in WorkOS is inseparable from our confidence in Michael Grinich, the company’s founder and CEO. Michael has an unusually strong combination of product taste, technical depth, and business instincts. He also has an extremely high bar for quality. That mindset shows up everywhere: in the product experience, in the documentation, and in the way the team partners with customers. Collectively, the WorkOS team operates with an approach that moves fast, listens carefully, and ships thoughtfully. As a result, they have built a product offering that is loved by developers and mission critical to their customers.

What drew us to WorkOS wasn’t just the elegance of the solution, but the velocity of adoption. The company’s infrastructure powers many of the most innovative companies on the planet, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Replit, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Sierra, Fal, Baseten, and thousands of other fast-moving organizations. It is now the de facto solution for the world’s leading up-and-coming technology companies. As AI-native companies race to sell into the enterprise, the authentication bar has never been higher. The same infrastructure challenge that plagued SaaS companies for the last decade will define the first wave of agent deployments, and WorkOS will be the platform that enables them to do so.

We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Michael and the WorkOS team as they help every company — from ambitious startups to the world’s largest technology companies — become enterprise ready, fast.