Omneky

It’s not often that we find a startup with a pedigree as impressive as Omneky.

This company has raised more than eleven million dollars from investors including SoftBank and Village Global. It has partnerships with Nvidia, Amazon, and Meta. And notable customers include Yamaha, SoftBank, and Mitsubishi.

What is Omneky? It’s a company using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help companies produce smarter advertisements.

Advertising is a trillion-dollar global industry. And increasingly, companies are relying on AI to create effective, engaging ads. This has spawned a three-billion-dollar generative AI sector.

The problem is that inefficient digital advertising wastes $500 billion a year. More than forty percent of media budgets are lost on underperforming campaigns due to resource-intensive, un-personalized content creation that lacks actionable insights.

The result is brands struggling to maintain relevance, consistency, and quality.

This is where Omneky can help. Its technology automates scalable, data-driven campaigns, optimizing return on investment (ROI) and providing actionable insights. This enables companies to use smarter, more effective advertisements.

Omneky won the AI Excellence Award and was the first generative AI company to pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Omneky offers its technology through subscriptions with usage-based pricing and full-service options. In the future, the company aims to offer autonomous 24/7 advertising agents that manage and optimize ad campaigns, as well as a programming interface for AI-powered generative ads.

Team Background

Hikari Senju - Chief Executive Officer

Hikari founded Omneky in 2018 as one of the first movers in generative AI.

Previously, he co-founded Quickhelp, an IT-services company providing students access to tutors on-demand. This company was acquired by Yup.com in 2017.

Hikari studied Computer Science with a focus on AI at Harvard.

Elisa Phillips - Chief Operating Officer

Elisa has more than seventeen years of experience at Google as a senior manager of business development and ad sales.

Following her time there, she led enterprise-ad sales at DoorDash, the mobile food-ordering service.

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from Duke University.

Chris Martiniak - Chief Product Officer

Chris has more than two decades of advertising experience, holding leadership roles at Yahoo! and TapJoy.

Recently, he was a product manager with Amazon, working on ads for its Prime Video streaming service. Before that, he worked for Samsung in its advertising department, and was Head of Ad Product with EverString, a data-science startup.

Earlier in his career, he was a product-strategy manager with Yahoo! and was a brand manager with Procter & Gamble. He began his career as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, a professional-services company.

Chris earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from Michigan.

Co-Investors

Village Global

A VC fund investing in early-stage startups.

SoftBank

A prominent venture capital fund whose portfolio includes Alibaba, Zynga, and Satellogic.