{"id":199917,"date":"2026-03-28T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/origin-raises-30m-series-a\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:45:12","slug":"origin-raises-30m-series-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/origin-raises-30m-series-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin raises $30M Series A+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/origin-30m-series-a-plus\">Origin raises $30M Series A+<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/origin-30m-series-a-plus\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/origin-30m-series-a-plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 07:29:18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thenextweb.com\">thenextweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><br \/>\nOrigin, a London-based HR technology startup previously acquired by Mercer for its dominant benefits administration software, has raised $30 million to develop its AI platform capable of consolidating fragmented global benefits data into a single intelligence layer using advanced AI technology. Founded by Chris Bruce, CEO, and Pete Craghill, CTO\u2014who also created the widely used Darwin benefits administration software\u2014Origin&#8217;s platform allows multinational corporations to centralize and comprehend their myriad benefits data scattered across numerous formats. Origin has reported promising initial results such as potential savings of millions of dollars for large organizations. Backed by Notion Capital, Felix Capital, and HSBC Innovation Banking UK, the startup plans to use the new funds to integrate more deeply with human capital management systems and expand its partnerships with key industry players. With total funding surpassing $50 million in under twelve months, Origin signals strong investor confidence in its innovative approach to a long-addressed problem in global HR benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Origin, founded by former Darwin executives, has developed an AI platform to centralize fragmented global benefits data.<\/li>\n<li>The company secured $30 million in Series A+ funding led by Notion Capital, adding to earlier $21 million raised in under a year.<\/li>\n<li>Origin\u2019s platform aims to drastically reduce costs and improve transparency for multinational corporations by consolidating and analyzing benefits data.<\/li>\n<li>Origin intends to use the fresh capital to deepen integrations with existing HR tools and to expand its partner network.  <\/li>\n<li>Initial clients like Pfizer, Comcast, and BP have supported the platform&#8217;s development and contributed to its success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Origin raises $30M Series A+ https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/origin-30m-series-a-plus Publish Date: 2026-03-25 07:29:18 Source Domain: thenextweb.com Summary: Origin,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw-blurple?filter_last=1&fit=1280%2C640&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2026%2F03%2FOrigin-Benefits.png&signature=df12454c337b5408151ef6a2603b4371","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199919,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199917\/revisions\/199919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}