[back to company universe](https://highsignal.app/case-studies) Sales and marketing # Origin Origin built a kiosk for offices that lets employees buy pre-packed pods from a freezer, and make them into fresh juice smoothies silently in 30 seconds. It works similar to a Keurig coffee machine, but Origin thinks it can use its smoothie maker as a Trojan horse to sell more food and other items inside the 188,000 offices in the US. Right now it earns a 56% margin on the $2.99 pods, recoups the kiosk cost in 7 weeks, and now has $30,000 in monthly recurring revenue as it grows 50% weekly. Fell sources 3 Evidence entries preserved. affiliations 2 Techstars, Y Combinator competitors 6 Mapped from High Signal graph features. status generated artifact cache last updated 2026-07-15 17:19 UTC source evidence Why this company exists here ## Y Combinator yc-company-directory #3836 [official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/origin) ## Y Combinator yc-company-directory #6011 [official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/origin-bio) ## Techstars techstars-portfolio #502 [official source](https://www.techstars.com/portfolio) generated read High Signal interpretation Origin is classified as **Sales and marketing** from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs. offline extraction Product facets Keurig coffee machinesmoothie makerbond market$2.99 podskioskpre-packed podsemployeesDNA switches mapping method Similarity graph Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6. discovery cluster ## Companies similar to Origin Sales and marketing · 6 peers A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster. [### Scribe match 72Scribe is an AI-Powered Sales Assistant for your inside sales team, that you can hire in <10 minutes. Scribe magically finds the best prospects, writes highly personalized emails, handles objections and schedules demos with pre-qualified leads. To put it into perspective, our customers have been able to get 3X the number of qualified meetings for 50% of the cost, and your SDRs can now focus on only the warmest leads. Scribe is backed by Y Combinator and other elite Silicon Valley investors and ishared extracted concept terms: market; shared product terms: pre, other, inside, now; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/scribe)[### OneText match 64OneText is disrupting SMS marketing and payments. We win incremental sales for direct to consumer brands by making every purchase as effortless as paying with your hotel room number. OneText shoppers literally reply and buy with one text. In our first year, we’ve onboarded 50 fast-growing e-commerce brands and have added as much as 14% in incremental revenue to their bottom lines. In March, we generated $597,000 dollars in payments. In April, we’ll book $50,000 dollars in revenue. Founders Jonatshared extracted concept terms: market; shared product terms: market, buy, 50, grow; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/onetext)[### Yumbin match 59Yumbins are mobile POS-powered self-checkout markets that offer a curated mix of the highest quality and healthiest snacks, beverages and essentials to office employees. Think of us as the Square for self-checkout meets on-site mini-Whole Foods. Vending is a stagnant $43 billion industry that has suffered from expensive proprietary hardware, onerous payment acceptance and limited (often wildly unhealthy) selection. We replace this hardware with lightweight software that enables customized producshared extracted concept terms: employee; shared product terms: office, employee, think, food; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/yumbin)[### Pinpoint match 58Pinpoint has built a platform that empowers event creators to maximize their revenue (think: Shopify for events). Frontend: Build a fully customizable event website in seconds, sell tickets, merch, etc. Backend: Manage all the headaches that go into your event, from automating payouts to promoters & vendors, building your marketing engine, selling brand sponsorships, etc.shared extracted concept terms: market; shared product terms: second, think, sell, revenue; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: Sales and marketing](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/pinpoint)[### Pearl match 41Pearl lets any office, hotel or restaurant serve the world's best coffees & teas at the push of a button. Pearl's proprietary brew technology matches the speed and convenience of a Keurig without using wasteful, low-quality coffee pods. Our fully compostable single-servings contain freshly roasted whole bean coffees & teas sourced from premier roasters and importers. We handle installation, upkeep, and automatic re-stocking of an evolving menu that's tailored to your preferences. Say goodbye to shared product terms: lets, office, coffee, keurig; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/pearl)[### PathSpot match 25PathSpot scans employee's hands to detect pathogens that cause food borne illness - all in under 2 seconds.shared product terms: employee, food, second; shared affiliation: Techstars](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/pathspot) --- Canonical HTML: https://highsignal.app/case-studies/origin