What Omnea does

Omnea is a London-based, AI-native procurement orchestration platform founded in 2022 by Ben Allen and Ben Freeman, both former operators at Tessian. The company offers an "Agentic Operating System for Procurement" that unifies the full source-to-pay lifecycle—intake, sourcing, approvals, supplier management, third-party risk management, purchase order automation, renewals, and reporting—on a single platform. Its technology stack is anchored by a reinforcement-learning-enabled Context Engine, a no-code Workflow Builder, bi-directional integrations with 200+ ERP/CLM/GRC systems, an embedded library of workflow agents, and an industry-first MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server that surfaces supplier and procurement data inside Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Cohere North, and Cursor. The platform is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, with zero data retention agreements enforced with all model providers.

Omnea sells through a sales-led, enterprise field motion with US and UK teams, supported by a content and event-driven demand generation engine, a public ROI calculator, and developer-style channels around the MCP Server. Pricing is quote-based annual SaaS subscription, with add-on modules such as Price Intelligence (powered by Tropic's 100,000+ live negotiation benchmarks across $21B in managed spend) and professional services delivered via embedded AI Adoption Leads. Customers span large enterprises and selected mid-market firms across financial services, cybersecurity, software/AI, staffing, retail, and healthcare, with marquee logos including PayPal, Spotify, The Adecco Group, McAfee, MongoDB, DeepL, Adyen, Monzo, Wise, Proofpoint, TeamViewer, and Reach.

By the time of its $50M Series B in September 2025, Omnea had tripled headcount, grown revenue approximately 5x in the prior 12 months, and accumulated over $75M in total funding from Insight Partners, Khosla Ventures, Accel, Point Nine, First Round Capital, and Prosus. It has subsequently launched the MCP Server (May 2026) and the Tropic-powered Price Intelligence add-on (June 2026), and was recognized as a G2 Leader in Procurement Orchestration, a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025, and the #1 UK startup in the Startups 100 Index 2026.

Name

Omnea

Legal name

Omnea

Website

https://omnea.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Omnea is a London-based AI-native procurement orchestration platform that unifies the full source-to-pay lifecycle—including intake, sourcing, supplier management, third-party risk, and PO automation—on an agentic operating system with embedded AI agents and an industry-first MCP Server. It serves primarily large enterprise procurement teams across financial services, cybersecurity, software, and staffing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Procurement Orchestration Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

API Analytics, Monetization & Developer Experience Tooling (HDAEAIAJ)

Keywords

• Procurement orchestration platform
• Source-to-pay automation
• Third-party risk management
• Supplier relationship management
• AI procurement software

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Enterprise SaaS subscriptions: Recurring subscription revenue from enterprise and mid-market customers (Spotify, PayPal, Adecco, McAfee, MongoDB, DeepL, Adyen, etc.). Headline metrics include 5x revenue growth over the prior 12 months as of the Series B announcement.
2. Implementation and AI Adoption professional services: Embedded team of AI Adoption Leads who guide customer success and implementation; workflow design support and readiness-phase enablement are bundled with enterprise deployments.
3. Add-on modules (e.g., Price Intelligence): Add-on capabilities such as the Price Intelligence feature (powered by Tropic data) sold as incremental modules on top of the core platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Omnea is an AI-native procurement orchestration platform that unifies the entire Source-to-Pay lifecycle — intake, sourcing, supplier management, third-party risk, PO automation, renewals, and reporting — through an agentic operating system with embedded AI agents. The platform provides conversational intake across Slack, Teams, and an MCP server, and integrates with ERP, CLM, GRC, and identity systems to automate the full procurement workflow.

Product overview

Omnea offers a single unified platform branded as the 'Agentic Operating System for Procurement' that orchestrates the full Source-to-Pay lifecycle — intake, sourcing, approvals, supplier management, third-party risk, PO automation, reporting, and renewals — on top of an embedded AI layer. The offering is a platform-plus-modules architecture: the core Agentic Operating System hosts all modules, with Omnea AI providing the cross-cutting agentic layer (including conversational intake, RFx generation/scoring, and stakeholder summaries) and the MCP Server exposing procurement data to external AI assistants. Together, Intelligent Intake, Product Catalog, Approval Workflows, Supplier Portal, Supplier Repository, Renewals, Workflow Builder, PO Automation, Reporting, Sourcing, Third-Party Risk Management, Continuous Monitoring, and Price Intelligence (the Tropic-powered add-on) compose the modular portfolio, while the Omnea AI fabric ties them together with reinforcement learning and embedded agents across the lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Intelligent Intake A conversational intake module embedded in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets employees request goods, services, and access through natural language prompts and routes requests into the procurement workflow.
• Product Catalog A pre-negotiated product and service catalog that lets employees self-serve approved purchases, reducing shadow procurement and improving compliance with preferred-supplier agreements.
• Approval Workflows Configurable approval workflows that automate stakeholder sign-off on purchase requests, POs, and supplier onboarding, replacing fragmented email and ticket-based approvals.
• Supplier Portal A supplier-facing portal that lets vendors manage their own information, respond to onboarding questionnaires, and maintain compliance documentation from one location.
• Supplier Repository A centralized, AI-maintained master record of every supplier relationship, including contracts, contacts, spend, risk posture, and activity history across the organization.
• Renewals A renewals management module that tracks upcoming supplier contract expirations, automates notice delivery, and surfaces renewal tasks to procurement and finance teams to prevent auto-renewals and missed savings.
• Workflow Builder A no-code workflow builder with a Salesforce-style interface that lets procurement teams configure approval, intake, and supplier processes without engineering support, including deep Salesforce and ERP integrations.
• PO Automation An automated purchase-order creation engine that generates and dispatches POs to suppliers as soon as approvals are complete, eliminating manual PO administration.
• Reporting Procurement analytics and reporting dashboards providing visibility into spend, supplier performance, cycle times, and compliance across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle.
• Omnea AI An embedded AI layer of autonomous agents (e.g., Buyer Agent) that execute multi-step procurement tasks across the platform using reinforcement learning, with zero data retention and no model training on customer data.
• Sourcing A sourcing module that runs competitive supplier sourcing events, including RFP/RFI workflows and bid comparison, to help procurement teams select suppliers efficiently.
• Third-Party Risk Management A TPRM module that screens and scores suppliers against financial, security, ESG, and regulatory criteria during onboarding and throughout the supplier lifecycle.
• Continuous Monitoring A continuous supplier monitoring capability integrated with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance that delivers ongoing adverse-media, sanctions, and risk-event alerts on the active supplier base.
• Price Intelligence A price-intelligence capability integrated with Tropic that benchmarks supplier pricing against market data and surfaces savings opportunities on SaaS and services spend.
• MCP Server A Model Context Protocol server that exposes Omnea procurement data and actions to external AI assistants and agents, enabling third-party AI tools to interact with the procurement system.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% reduction in procurement cycle times (Adecco Group: 23.4 to 4.6 days)
• +11 more outcomes

Named customers52 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability13 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

22 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• TropicflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2026Omnea and Tropic announced a partnership in June 2026 to integrate Tropic's SaaS pricing benchmark data (100,000+ live negotiations across $21bn in managed spend) into Omnea's AI-powered procurement platform, delivered as the Price Intelligence add-on. The integration addresses the 'AI tax' problem where AI-related SaaS price increases outpace industry norms by 20–37%.
• Anthropic (Claude)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Omnea launched an MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server making it the first intake and orchestration platform with procurement data directly accessible through Claude. Procurement teams can access supplier data via plain language inside Claude under existing enterprise security and governance controls.
• OpenAI (ChatGPT)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Omnea's MCP Server exposes procurement data inside ChatGPT so procurement teams can query suppliers using plain language within the tools they already use.
• Microsoft (Copilot)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Omnea's MCP Server exposes procurement data inside Microsoft Copilot; Omnea also integrates intake inside Microsoft Teams as a primary conversational surface.
• Cohere (Cohere North)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Omnea's MCP Server exposes procurement data inside Cohere North; Cohere is also a named enterprise customer of Omnea.
• CursorflagshipTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Omnea's MCP Server exposes procurement data inside Cursor, enabling developer access to supplier information via plain language prompts.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2026Salesforce is listed among Omnea's workflow-builder integration logos for Finance workflows.
• Dow JonescoreTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2025Dow Jones' market-leading risk data is integrated into Omnea's continuous monitoring module to deliver automated daily screening for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media inside Omnea workflows.
• GoogleminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members ("Work alongside talent from world-class teams"); Google logo is part of the alumni-brand wall rather than a commercial partnership.
• MetaminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• TikTokminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• PigmentminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• LegoraminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• PleominorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• EfficiominorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• DarktraceminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• MirominorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• TessianminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members; the founders previously built Tessian from 5 to 300 people and $0 to $30m ARR.
• Morgan StanleyminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• JPMorganminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• LinkedInminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.
• McKinseyminorOthersListed on the Careers page as a previous employer of Omnea team members.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Zip: Zip is a procurement orchestration platform that unifies intake, approvals, and spend management across enterprise systems. It is the closest direct competitor to Omnea in AI-native procurement orchestration, targeting similar enterprise buyers and replacing legacy P2P suites.
• Vendr: Vendr is a SaaS procurement and price-negotiation marketplace that helps enterprises buy and renew software. It overlaps with Omnea's sourcing, renewals, and (post-Tropic partnership) price-intelligence modules and competes for similar mid-market and enterprise procurement buyers.
• Procurify: Procurify offers a procurement and spend management platform focused on mid-market and growth-stage companies. It competes with Omnea in intake, approval workflows, and supplier management for the mid-market segment that Omnea is also expanding into.

Emerging players

• Productiv: Productiv provides SaaS spend and usage intelligence for IT and procurement teams. It overlaps with Omnea's Renewals and supplier-repository capabilities, particularly for software-vendor management, though its primary focus is SaaS-vendor analytics rather than full source-to-pay.
• Suplari: Suplari delivers AI-driven spend analytics and procurement insights. It is comparable to Omnea's Reporting and Insights modules and competes for budget allocated to data-driven procurement transformation in mid-market and enterprise accounts.

Broad incumbents

• Coupa Software: Coupa is a long-established spend management and procurement platform serving large enterprises. It is the incumbent Omnea most often displaces, offering a broader suite but typically perceived as a legacy bolt-on rather than an AI-native architecture.
• SAP Ariba: SAP Ariba is the dominant legacy source-to-pay suite for large enterprises. It overlaps with Omnea's full intake-to-PO workflow but is widely cited as the kind of fragmented, email-driven system Omnea's customers are looking to replace.
• Jaggaer: Jaggaer is an enterprise source-to-pay platform with strong sourcing and supplier-management capabilities. It is a relevant incumbent comparable to Omnea in supplier management, sourcing, and contract lifecycle, particularly for direct materials.
• Ivalua: Ivalua provides a unified spend management platform covering procurement, sourcing, and supplier management. It competes with Omnea for large enterprise procurements where consolidation of legacy suites is the primary driver.

Others

• Tropic: Tropic is a SaaS price-intelligence and procurement-data provider that is Omnea's data partner for the Price Intelligence add-on. It is comparable as a SaaS-pricing benchmark and supplier-data source, though not a direct workflow competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors10 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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