From Engineer to Founder: Building and Selling Developer Tools with Extend & Authzed

​Cofounders.nyc & Work-Bench are excited to host a fireside chat with Kushal Byatnal, Co-Founder & CEO of Extend, and Jake Moshenko, Co-Founder & CEO of Authzed for an intimate night of lessons learned and the future of agentic software.

​We’ll go deep on Extend & Authzed's founding stories, Kushal and Jake's transitions from engineer to founder, and the lessons learned along the way from finding product-market fit and cracking go-to-market, to fundraising and building with AI inside a complex enterprise landscape. Expect candid insights, honest tradeoffs, and plenty of room for discussion.

​This is a small, curated gathering designed to foster real conversation and high-signal connections with other NYC founders and operators building ambitious companies.

​🗓️ Wednesday February 11th
🕰️ 6:00PM – 8:00PM ET
📍 In-person, NYC (location shared upon confirmation)

​Space is limited — please register and we’ll follow up to confirm your spot.

​This event is brought to you by:

Extend: Extend is an AI-native document processing infrastructure company helping ambitious technical teams transform unstructured documents into high-quality structured data with accuracy and speed. Their platform provides a complete suite of APIs and tooling for parsing, extraction, classification, and workflow orchestration, enabling engineers to build and deploy production-ready document workflows in days. Extend works with cutting-edge companies across industries to accelerate product roadmaps and unlock the full value of mission-critical data. They've raised $17M from investors like Innovation Endeavors, Homebrew, and Guillermo Rauch.

​AuthZed is on a mission to fix access control by providing authorization infrastructure. AuthZed provides one authorization system for your entire application ecosystem, eliminating authorization silos and simplifying your architecture with a centralized permissions platform. Trusted by developer and platform teams at OpenAI, Workday, National Bank of Canada, Turo, Neo Financial and more. 

​Work-Bench: We are an early stage enterprise software VC fund based in New York City. We lead $3M - $6M Seed rounds in SaaS and infrastructure startups, focus on supporting companies’ 0 to 1 go-to-market journeys, and have built a dynamic enterprise tech community here in NYC. We’re investing out of our $160M Fund IV, and notable portfolio companies include Cockroach Labs, Socure, Spring Health, and Dialpad.

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