Omneky Inc.
Omneky Inc. is a generative creative AI company founded in 2019 and based in New York. Its Omneky platform automates ad creative generation and optimization for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands.
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Revenue: 5m_25m
Employees: 11_50
Website: https://www.omneky.com
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Omneky Inc. is a San Francisco-based generative AI company that provides a platform for creating, launching, and optimizing personalized digital advertising campaigns across major paid media channels. Founded in 2018 by Hikari Senju, the company operates in the ad tech and creative management platform categories. Its core product uses machine learning and large language models to automate the full advertising workflow—from creative generation through campaign deployment and real-time performance optimization.
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Key Facts
- Founded: 2018 [7]
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA [8]
- Total Funding Raised: $13M (across multiple seed rounds)
- Employees (as of March 2026): Approximately 33–34 [8]
- Founder & CEO: Hikari Senju [10]
- Co-founder & CBO: Matt Swalley
- Crowdfunding Valuation Cap (2025): $80 million
- Key Investors: Village Global, SoftBank DeepCore, Hyphen Capital, Orbit Ventures, Ethos, Flybridge, Nomura Asset Management
Overview
Omneky operates as an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omnichannel ad campaigns [3]. The company provides tools for generating images, videos, and ad copy, facilitating campaign launching across multiple platforms, and delivering insights into creative performance [12]. Its platform is designed to serve performance marketers across sectors, from small businesses to large enterprises, helping them increase return on ad spend and reduce costs and time associated with ad creation [10]. Channel coverage includes Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit, among others [1]. The platform operates on a subscription-based SaaS model with tiered plans and a credit system for generating assets [10]. Omneky also offers a managed-services layer for enterprise clients, covering campaign planning through execution [1].
History
Omneky was founded in 2018 by Hikari Senju, a Harvard University computer science graduate whose background included co-founding the edtech startup QuickHelp, which was later acquired by Yup.com, where he served as Head of Growth [10]. In September 2021, the company raised an initial seed round of approximately $2.5 million from Village Global, SoftBank's DeepCore, Hyphen Capital, and other strategic investors [14]. In November 2022, Omneky announced the close of a seed extension that brought total funding to $10 million; that extension included investments from Orbit Ventures, Ethos, and individual investor John Donovan, alongside existing backers [14]. CB Insights records cumulative funding of $13 million across multiple seed rounds, with Flybridge among the more recent investors [19][20]. Also in 2022, the company participated in TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield [39]. In 2025, Omneky ran a crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine under a convertible note structure with a valuation cap of $80 million [15].
Market Position
Omneky is categorized by CB Insights within Ad Tech, Digital Content, and Generative AI expert collections [7]. In November 2024, the company announced it had been recognized by Gartner as a tech innovator for AI-Generated Content [42]. Omneky was also included in AdExchanger's marketer's guide to generative AI startups, and named by Business Insider as one of the generative AI startups primed to transform advertising and marketing in 2024 [9][50]. Named clients documented in trade press include Sony Music, SoftBank, Saleen Automotive, and Japan Airlines [50]. CB Insights additionally noted that Omneky was named an Outperformer in the text-to-video platforms market, alongside Canva, Synthesia, and Runway [7]. The platform is available through the AWS Marketplace [6].
Competition
CB Insights identifies Omneky's primary competitors as Creatify AI, VidMob, AdCreative, Pint AI, and Shimmr AI, among others [19]. G2 categorizes Omneky alongside AdCreative.ai, Smartly, Celtra, and Facebook for Business in the Personalization Software, Creative Management Platforms, and Social Media Advertising Software segments [25]. Tracxn lists Smartly.io and StackAdapt as top competitors [12]. Independent trade analysis positions the three platforms differently by primary value: Omneky emphasizes end-to-end autonomous campaign management; VidMob focuses on creative data analytics applied to existing assets; and AdCreative.ai emphasizes speed and volume of creative generation [23]. Third-party review site commentary positions Omneky as suited to teams scaling ad spend across multiple channels who need autonomous campaign management, while Smartly.io is seen as oriented toward larger enterprise creative teams [24][29].
Additional Links
- Omneky Launches AI-Powered Advertising Agents to Revolutionize Campaign Management — Omneky Newsroom
- Top Omneky Alternatives, Competitors — CB Insights
- Omneky | TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2022 — TechCrunch, 2025-01-06
- Omneky Reviews - AWS Marketplace — AWS Marketplace
- Omneky 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors — PitchBook
- Newsroom — Press & Company News | Omneky — Omneky Newsroom
Sources
- AI Ad Generator & Creative Platform | Generate, Launch — Omneky — Omneky (official site)
- Omneky uses AI to generate social media ads — TechCrunch, 2022-10-18
- Omneky Secures $10M Total Funding in Seed Round with Key Investors — PR Newswire, 2022-11-15
- Omneky - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations — CB Insights
- Omneky - 2026 Company Profile, Funding & Competitors — Tracxn, 2026-07-14
- Omneky company information, funding & investors — Dealroom
- A Marketer's Guide To Generative AI Startups — AdExchanger, 2024-04-26
- Omneky Recognized by Gartner as a Leading Innovator in AI-Driven Creative Solutions — PR Newswire, 2024-11-26
- Omneky Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features — G2, 2026-06-04
- Top 10 Omneky Alternatives & Competitors in 2025 — G2
- Omneky on StartEngine 2025 — Kingscrowd, 2025-02-19
- Omneky Company Overview, Contact Details & Competitors — LeadIQ
- Omneky - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — Simple English Wikipedia
Editorial note: Exact revenue figures conflict across sources (GetLatka cites $8.3M ARR for 2023; Kingscrowd cites $2.1M for its most recent fiscal year in a 2025 filing document); neither figure could be independently verified from SEC filings or audited financials, so revenue was omitted from key_facts. Employee count also varies by source (LeadIQ/PitchBook: 33–34 as of early 2026; GetLatka: 71 as of 2023); the more recent LeadIQ/PitchBook figures were used but flagged. The Gartner recognition was announced via vendor press release rather than directly sourced from a Gartner publication, so the exact nature of the recognition (e.g., whether it appears in a named Magic Quadrant or Hype Cycle report) could not be confirmed. Business Insider listing as a 2024 AI startup to watch was referenced in Wikipedia's citations but the original Business Insider article was not directly retrieved.