# Hikari Senju

> Hikari Senju is the founder and CEO of Omneky, a San Francisco generative AI platform that creates, analyzes, and optimizes personalized ad creative at scale. A Harvard computer scientist and son of celebrated Nihonga painter Hiroshi Senju, he began building in generative AI in 2018, five years before ChatGPT made the field mainstream. His mission is to lower the cost of effective advertising so that any founder with a compelling idea can reach customers without a million-dollar budget. Omneky has raised over $13 million from investors including SoftBank and AIX Ventures, and in 2024-2025 Senju pivoted the company toward agentic AI that autonomously plans and runs campaigns across Meta, Google, and TikTok.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Omneky
- **Organizations:** Omneky, Yup.com, QuickHelp, Balloon
- **From:** Westchester, New York, United States
- **Nationality:** Japanese-American
- **Education:** B.A. Computer Science (focus on AI and machine learning); cross-registered at MIT, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Founded Omneky, one of the first movers in applied generative AI (2018), Raised over $13 million in seed funding from investors including SoftBank and AIX Ventures, TechCrunch Disrupt finalist

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Graduated from Harvard University with a computer science degree focused on AI and machine learning
- **pre-2017** — Founded Balloon, a friend meetup app, and QuickHelp, an on-demand tutoring app
- **2017** — QuickHelp acquired by Yup.com; joined as Head of Growth
- **2018** — Founded Omneky, a generative AI advertising platform in San Francisco
- **2020** — Omneky publicly launched its AI ad-creation product
- **2022** — Omneky integrated DALL-E 2, GPT-3, and Stable Diffusion; raised seed funding (over $12M)
- **2024-2025** — Pivoted Omneky toward agentic AI: autonomous agents that set campaign goals and optimize spend across Meta, Google, and TikTok

## Achievements

- Founded Omneky, one of the first movers in applied generative AI (2018)
- Raised over $13 million in seed funding from investors including SoftBank and AIX Ventures
- TechCrunch Disrupt finalist
- Featured at major industry events including Nvidia GTC, TedAI, and Computex
- Built and sold QuickHelp (tutoring app) to Yup.com by age 31
- Pioneered human-approved, AI-generated personalized ad creative at scale

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Pivoted Omneky toward agentic AI - autonomous agents that set campaign goals, execute subtasks, and optimize budgets across Meta, Google, and TikTok.

## Links

- Website: https://omneky.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hisenju
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/omneky
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/omneky

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Last updated: 2026-06-24