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Origin
Luxury personal travel assistant app
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Retail
- Travel
- Machine Learning
- Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To offer a human-first, tech-enabled approach to exploring the world. With every unique itinerary, we fight the expected and deliver incredible moments that are grounded in originality.
Our take
The premium travel market is increasingly being driven by mobile-first millennials and GenX, and yet booking adventurous holidays like a safari is often a complicated process of emails and phone calls. Sceneset, a rebrand of Origin, aims to change that with its luxury mobile-first concierge service.
Unlike traditional concierge services, discerning travelers pay a membership fee to access the app which comes with on-hand expert human curators. The technology platform then uses machine learning to provide a service that learns its user’s travel preferences.
The team has set the goal of becoming carbon-negative. Trips are currently offset in partnership with myclimate.org and Stripe, but the next stage is for the entire organization to measure and reduce their emissions impact to a carbon-negative state.
Sceneset's users are both happy to fork up for a luxury travel concierge service and embrace technology-based services. The challenge for the app will be achieving word-of-mouth growth among this narrow group.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Competitive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits and 401k
- Flexible Paid Time Off to allow you to recharge and be your most productive self
- Workation Policy: at Origin, travel is what we do, so we support our employees to travel while working
- Zen Benefits, a monthly wellness stipend to help provide mental and physical happiness in your life
Company values
- Be client obsessed
- Innovate like an Original
- Leverage our differences,
- Embrace the global market
- Less is more
- Trust the journey
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $5m
Leadership
Eli Bressert
(CEO)Experience across Data Science and Product at Stitch Fix, Netflix, Convoy, and Apple.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Origin
- We are a global company, and our team must represent our global clientele. We have great representation so far, and will continue to grow the company with diversity as a priority.