What Origin Secured does

Origin Secured Ltd. is a post-quantum trust infrastructure company headquartered in Reading, UK, founded in 2022. It provides an overlay authority layer that lets organisations verify whether the right authority or credential is in place at the moment a decision is taken, without ever accessing the underlying data. Its core architecture is the OS Gateway — a four-layer platform (Orchestration, Control Plane, Data Layer, Integrity Layer) — anchored by an append-only Event Chain that records signed assertions using post-quantum cryptography and a decentralised M-of-N witness model the company describes as a first-of-its-kind alternative to blockchain. The platform operates through two complementary components: Secured PUB on the issuer side, which publishes cryptographically signed assertions about administered credentials, and Secured SUB on the verifier side, which subscribes to those assertions for instant verification at the point of action.

The company serves primarily the UK defence sector — where the UK Ministry of Defence is a named customer using the platform for supply chain assurance in Highly Secure Defence environments — and the workforce and facilities management sector, where it provides credentialing, training, clearance and access verification for large distributed workforces such as cleaning and FM providers. Secondary use cases span supply-chain compliance and ESG attestation, and an emerging frontier targets AI agent credentialing and authorisation. The go-to-market combines dedicated enterprise field-sales teams for defence and workforce with an API-first Beta Programme that allows developers to embed Origin's trust infrastructure beneath their own front-end experiences. Origin Secured is privately held (Registration No. 14552883, England & Wales), holds ISO 27001, ISO 9001, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications, operates on a subscription/recurring revenue model, and employs 11–50 people.

Name

Origin Secured

Legal name

Origin Secured Ltd.

Website

https://originsecured.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Origin Secured provides post-quantum trust infrastructure that lets organisations verify authority and credentials at the point of action without exposing underlying data, primarily serving UK defence and workforce/facilities sectors via an API-first platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trust Infrastructure Software

akta.pro primary industry

Decentralized Identity (DID) & Verifiable Credentials (BPAMAEAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Authentication (MFA/Passwordless/Biometrics) Platforms (BPAMAEAE)

Keywords

• Trust infrastructure software
• Credential verification platform
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Digital identity assurance
• Supply chain authentication

Headquarters

HQ city

Reading

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Trust Infrastructure Platform: B2B infrastructure-as-a-service model providing trust verification capabilities to enterprises. Organisations integrate via API to access credential verification, credential challenges, and tamper-evident evidence recording. Revenue likely generated through licensing or subscription model for platform access.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Origin Secured provides the OS Gateway, a post-quantum trust infrastructure platform that enables organisations to issue and verify credentials with cryptographic proof through an append-only Event Chain, using Secured PUB for issuance and Secured SUB for verification. The platform supports workforce credentialing, supply chain provenance, and defence authority verification, with features such as biometric-linked credentials, selective disclosure, and a decentralised M-of-N trust model operating across four trust infrastructure layers.

Product overview

Origin Secured is a post-quantum trust infrastructure platform that provides an overlay authority layer for proving trust without exposing data. The core architecture consists of the OS Gateway platform with its four trust layers (Orchestration, Control Plane, Data Layer, Integrity Layer) and the Event Chain append-only record. The platform operates through three components: Secured PUB (issuer side for publishing signed assertions), the OS Gateway (shared infrastructure for orchestrating trust), and Secured SUB (verifier side for subscribing to and verifying assertions). Supporting features include Biometric Linked Credentials for secure identity verification, Credential Challenge for proving held credentials without exposure, Workforce Readiness for confirming skills and clearance at point of action, Supply Chain Illumination for supplier verification, and Immutable Proof for tamper-evident event recording. The platform is accessible via API with a Beta Programme available for builders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OS Gateway The core Origin Secured platform that enables organisations to issue and verify credentials with cryptographic proof through the Event Chain, comprising Secured PUB for issuance and Secured SUB for verification across four trust infrastructure layers.
• Event Chain An append-only, tamper-evident data structure within the OS Gateway that provides immutable recordkeeping and verifiable proof for credentialing and transaction events.
• Secured PUB The issuer-side component of the OS Gateway that organisations use to publish and issue cryptographic credentials onto the Event Chain for downstream verification.
• Secured SUB The verifier-side component of the OS Gateway that organisations use to check and validate cryptographic credentials recorded on the Event Chain.
• GateGuard A preview demo of the Origin Secured OS Gateway platform offered to prospective customers to experience credential issuance and verification.

Quantifiable outcome

• Every assertion is signed and independently verifiable - evidence cannot be quietly rewritten after the fact
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature7 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Entra Verified ID: Microsoft's enterprise DID and verifiable credential service, bundled into the broader Entra identity platform — the most direct large-platform overlap with Origin's proposition.
• Okta: Okta is a leading identity and access management platform extending into verifiable credentials, representing the broad incumbent alternative in enterprise identity buyers' procurement paths.
• Onfido (Entrust): Onfido, now part of Entrust, provides digital identity verification and biometric authentication used for KYC and workforce credentialing — the most adjacent incumbent on biometric verification and credential issuance.
• Ping Identity (including ForgeRock): Ping Identity and its absorbed ForgeRock unit deliver enterprise identity, access and credentialing platforms — a broad incumbent in any verifiable credential RFP where Origin would compete.

Emerging players

• Dock Labs: Dock Labs offers a verifiable credential and digital ID platform with similar API-first developer focus, representing another emerging specialist alternative in the same category.
• iProov: iProov provides biometric authentication and remote identity verification centred on face biometrics, overlapping with Origin's biometric-linked credentialing for point-of-action verification.

Direct peers

• Indicio: Indicio builds decentralised identity and verifiable credential infrastructure for government and enterprise, with comparable use cases in cross-organisational trust and digital credentials.
• Affinidi: Affinidi (Mastercard-backed) offers a decentralised identity and verifiable data sharing platform, addressing the same verifiable credential and selective disclosure problem space as Origin.
• Danube Tech (Gataca): Gataca by Danube Tech delivers a self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials stack, directly competing for DID infrastructure deployments in regulated industries.
• Trinsic: Trinsic provides an infrastructure platform for issuing, holding and verifying verifiable credentials, closely overlapping with Origin's OS Gateway, Secured PUB and Secured SUB model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OriginSecured
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/origin-secured

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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