OpenOrigins

📍 London, United Kingdom🗓 Founded 2021👥 12 employees💰 Last funded Jun 2023

OpenOrigins is building the verified internet. As synthetic media and AI-generated content become increasingly difficult to distinguish from reality, the internet lacks a reliable way to prove what is real, human, and authentic. Detection alone is not enough. Trust has to be built into the underlying infrastructure. OpenOrigins enables people, organizations, and digital content to cryptographically prove their origin in a way that is independent of custody, distribution, platform, or storage. Through Cambium, our purpose-built Layer-1 provenance protocol, authenticity becomes a permanent and verifiable property that persists wherever content travels. This creates a stable trust lane for real information as the internet enters an AI-dominated future. Authentic content, identities, and records can move safely and reliably across systems, borders, and workflows without losing their evidentiary value. We work with partners across the media, AI, and digital infrastructure ecosystems to ensure that real, human-created content can be verified, trusted, and responsibly used, including for AI training, archival integrity, and high-stakes decision-making.

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