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Omneky
Omneky is a San Francisco generative-AI platform that automatically produces, tests, and optimizes advertising creative - image, video, and UGC-style spokesperson ads - and launches campaigns across Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit. Founded in 2018 by Hikari Senju, it was one of the earliest movers in applying generative AI to advertising, using computer vision and multimodal analysis to predict which creatives will perform and to close the loop between making ads and measuring them. The company has since pivoted toward 'agentic' AI advertising agents that set campaign goals, execute subtasks, and reallocate budget across channels.
Upscale AI
Upscale AI is an AI-native advertising platform that lets performance-driven and e-commerce brands create, run, and optimize TV-quality video ads on streaming and connected TV channels. Its flagship product, Upscale Studio, turns a brand's existing website and social assets into streaming-ready creative, buys media programmatically in real time, and optimizes campaigns for measurable outcomes - bringing the performance-marketing playbook to the living-room screen. Founded by ad-tech veterans from Google, Twitter, Salesforce, Moloco, and MNTN, the company launched out of stealth in May 2025 with $5.5M in funding.