Omnea，一家致力于利用人工智能优化企业采购流程的初创公司，近期宣布获得5000万美元的B轮融资，累计融资额达7500万美元。Amid economic uncertainty and increasing vendor scrutiny due to tariffs, procurement has become a critical focus for businesses. Omnea's AI-powered platform simplifies the manual process of onboarding and managing employee tools, acting as the "organizational plumbing" for companies. The funding will accelerate hiring and platform development, further solidifying Omnea's position in the growing AI for procurement market, competing with other well-funded startups.

💡 AI驱动的采购优化：Omnea利用人工智能技术，旨在革新企业采购的繁琐流程。其平台能够自动化处理员工新工具的申请、供应商管理以及风险评估等环节，将原本耗时耗力的手动操作转化为高效的AI驱动流程，从而帮助企业在经济不确定时期更好地控制成本和优化资源配置。

💰 强劲融资实力：Omnea成功获得由Insight Partners和Khosla Ventures领投的5000万美元B轮融资，现有投资者Accel、Point Nine和First Round Capital也参与其中。这笔资金将用于加速其在美英两地的招聘工作，进一步巩固其在AI采购领域的领先地位，并应对市场对高效采购解决方案日益增长的需求。

🚀 严格的人才招聘标准：Omnea联合创始人兼CEO Ben Freeman强调，公司在人才招聘方面极为严谨，其首批50名员工就面试了超过10,000人。这种对“人才密度”的极致追求，体现了公司对构建高素质团队的重视，以确保能够持续创新并提供卓越的产品和服务，尤其是在快速发展的AI领域。

🌍 市场竞争与机遇：Omnea所处的AI采购领域正迅速升温，吸引了大量投资。虽然面临Levelpath和Zip等竞争对手的挑战，但Omnea凭借其创新的AI解决方案和强大的融资能力，以及Spotify、Albertsons等知名客户的认可，展现出巨大的增长潜力，尤其是在企业日益关注成本效益和供应商风险管理的当下。

Omnea focuses on building AI for procurement, which is top of mind amid economic uncertainty.Three-year-old Omnea has raised $50 million, for a total of $75 million.It interviewed 10,000 people for its first 50 hires, said cofounder and CEO Ben Freeman.

Omnea CEO Ben Freeman knows procurement, or the process of buying goods or services for businesses, is "very unsexy."

At the same time, it's increasingly becoming top of mind for businesses and garnering the attention of investors, he said. That explains the recent growth of Omnea, which helps companies onboard and manage tools for employees, replacing what has been a manual process with AI.

"I often describe it kind of like the organizational plumbing of every business," Freeman said of the procurement process. "They all have it. And it's just how well you can do it."

The company on Wednesday announced a $50 million Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Point Nine, and First Round Capital.

AI for procurement is heating up as economic pressures mean companies are squeezing margins — like shedding duplicative or lesser-used tools — and as President Donald Trump's tariffs mean they're keeping a closer eye on vendors, Freeman said. At the same time, the AI boom has resulted in a flurry of new tools requiring oversight.

Omnea lets employees make conversational requests for new tools. It uses AI to keep track of a company's suppliers and routes requests to the right people. It flags issues for risk teams, delivers performance reports for executives, and helps launch requests for proposals (RFPs) — or when a company puts out a call for vendors to bid on their business.

Freeman dropped out of college to launch an events business and then joined email security company Tessian, where he served as head of international growth and came up with the idea for Omnea while selling enterprise software.

He and Omnea's cofounder and CTO, Ben Allen, are building the company alongside two former Tessian executives: chief commercial officer Abhirukt Sapru and chief financial officer Sabrina Castiglione.

Three-year-old Omnea has raised $75 million to date, including a $5 million seed round and a $20 million Series A in October led by Accel. It has global customers, including Spotify, Albertsons, Wise, Adecco, and MongoDB, Freeman said.

Omnea will use its funding to accelerate hiring across the US and UK. It has over 100 employees across London and New York, all of whom work in the office. Freeman said talent has been the "biggest bottleneck" to Omnea's growth, given it's "obsessive about talent density," having interviewed over 10,000 people for its first 50 hires.

Omnea isn't the only AI for procurement startup raising big money. Levelpath raised $55 million in Series B funding in June, while Zip raised $190 million at a $2.2 billion valuation last year.