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What are the toughest challenges facing procurement today? 🤔 We asked CFOs, procurement leaders, and Omnea customers at our CFO Series London event. 👀 Watch the video to hear how we’re driving meaningful change in procurement strategy. Whether you’re transforming user experience, rethinking risk management, or setting bold new goals for 2025, we’re here to help. A huge thank you to Darren Bosman, Alexander Pilsl, Tanja F., Olivier ., Marina Ingignieri, and Aruna Solomon for sharing your insights!

How should spend and supplier management evolve as you grow from 10 to 500+ employees? We work with businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to billion-dollar institutions. Read what we've learned in Sabrina Castiglione's latest Forbes article, and get practical advice on successfully adapting your approach as you scale 🚀

Last night we brought together 85 finance, procurement, and risk leaders at our CFO Series London 🥂 A huge thank you to everyone who attended, to Dawn Capital & Dan Chaplin for introducing the event and hosting us in a beautiful space, and to all our wonderful speakers. Mikko Salovaara, Sacha Herrmann, and Ben Dooley on our CFO panel—who delivered some amazing insights on spend, IPO readiness, M&A, and budgeting! And to our customers Alexander Pilsl, Sarah-Jane Peden, Nick Priest, and Darren Bosman who talked through their experiences and learnings building world-class procurement functions. It was great to see so many insightful conversations and connections. Look out for a full wrap up video coming soon 👀

We’ve been named to Accel’s Fintech 50 EMEA 🔥 This list highlights the most innovative and impactful fintech companies driving change in financial services, and we're honoured to stand alongside such a strong group of industry leaders. If you want to be part of something special, check out our open roles: https://lnkd.in/evHNtufh 

We’re proud to be recognized in the ProcureTech100! 🏆 It highlights the most innovative, progressive, and customer centric procurement technology. In partnership with Kearney, ProcureTech looks at over 50 key data points for more than 5,000 solutions. It’s a rigorous process that’s combined with the real-world experience of 80+ global procurement leaders and digital experts. If you’d like to understand what it’s like to use Omnea—check out these case studies: https://lnkd.in/ehbArmXy

This time last week we were on Osea Island! 🏝️ We spent an amazing two days reflecting and learning at our 2024 offsite. 🧠 Omneans from across the business came together to shape our future 🧭 Our CTO Ben Allen walked through a stacked product roadmap 🎙️ Our CEO Ben Freeman talked through the journey so far & the past ahead for 2024 📣 And we hosted Tessian founder and CEO Tim Sadler for an insightful fireside chat! We also got out of our typical working routine and… 💎 Experienced the Crystal Maze 🕵️♂️ Solved a murder… mystery 🤖 And built robots (and battled them) We’re recharged and energised for the year ahead, united behind our mission to take the pain out of procurement. Want to join the next one? We’re hiring across all roles: https://lnkd.in/evHNtufh

We’ve been named a top 100 AI and cloud company to watch in Accel’s annual Euroscape report! AI is great at sweating the small stuff. That's why it’s been embedded in in our platform from day one. It’s how we: 🎙️ make new requests as easy as having a conversation 📣 make intake feel human with tone generation 📍 automatically generate risk remediation plans 👥 identify duplicate vendors and redirect requesters to existing software ✍ summarise requests so approvers have the right context 🔍 extract renewal dates and payment terms from documents It’s all part of how we take the pain out of procurement. ➡️ Check out more of our AI-powered features 🤖: https://lnkd.in/enhfz8dm ➡️ Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/eSpyZTdg

Team Omnea this is for you on behalf of all of us Point Nine When we invested, it was obvious the opportunity was exceptional but even more exceptional was the team we were backing. The level of energy was contagious. Let's go Ben Freeman Ben Allen Sabrina Castiglione Abhirukt Sapru Claire Williams Brian Azizi and everyone on the team! #p9family

When Ben Freeman first pitched us Omnea in 2022, they were pre-design partners, still in Figma. But he was willing to do a cold demo with a potential customer as a diligence session for us to watch — it was impressively gutsy. You can see this on display in this slide from their seed deck. Look at the top right corner: Ask us for a product demo. The idea itself was great. Purchasing B2B tools is a messy, complicated process, and bringing consumer-quality UX to handling procurement end-to-end was compelling. But there was also a lot of depth there — that’s what made Ben willing to stand behind it with a live cold demo. He had put in a significant amount of work to understand the market, competition, and customer needs. For example, he conducted 100+ interviews with procurement leads before building the product. I take hundreds of pitches a year — and very few founders go that deep. (So glad Cristina Cordova found him!) That willingness to put in the work paid off. After a long product and team build, they’ve seen incredible traction in the past year — the business is ripping. Ben’s been extremely focused and hands-on the whole way through, landing great logos while keeping a pulse on his customers and the market. Today the Omnea team is sharing the news of their Accel-led $20M Series A round. Excited to support them through all the gutsy moves ahead. 

The Omnea team, led by Ben Freeman and Ben Allen, is on a mission to take the pain out of #procurement. We believe the team’s approach to procurement automation and orchestration has the potential to redefine both spend control and compliance in a category that's projected to reach more than $13B by 2030. We’re thrilled to welcome them to the #AccelFamily! 🎉