# Aoi Senju

> Technical founder and operator. Co-founder and CEO of Colabra, building AI for M&A due diligence.

## I'm Aoi. I build AI products for high-stakes work.

I pick directions and commit to them. Every company I've built started with a specific thesis about where an industry was heading and what was missing. I got into clean energy because I had a clear idea about what the field needed. I started Colabra because I saw a gap in how buy-side M&A diligence gets done. The result is a body of work that looks less like a resume and more like a series of bets, each one placed with conviction.

Location: San Francisco, CA
Email: aoi@colabra.app

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asenju/
- X: https://x.com/aoisenju
- Medium: https://medium.com/@aoisenju
- Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/aoi-senju-c495

## Timeline

### 2021 to present · Co-founder and CEO @ Colabra

Building Colabra from pharma and scientific R&D software into AI for buy-side M&A diligence. Product, sales, fundraising, hiring, and building a go-to-market motion precise enough for high-stakes buyers.

What has stayed constant is the kind of AI we want to build: structured, auditable, and usable on work that cannot tolerate hand-waving.

More: https://aoisenju.com/timeline-colabra.html.md

### 2020 to 2021 · Senior Data Scientist @ Mission Lane

Senior data scientist on fraud and credit decisioning. The year I got to see what production ML actually feels like inside a consumer bank: thresholds, approvals, losses, and the operating judgment that has to sit around any of it to make it work.

The year I figured out how much of any useful ML system is actually operating judgment in disguise.

More: https://aoisenju.com/timeline-mission-lane.html.md

### 2018 to 2020 · Founder and CEO @ Jumpstart Energy

Founded and sold Jumpstart Energy. The first company I built that had to change shape under me because reality refused to cooperate with the original plan.

My first real education in building around a commercial wedge instead of an intellectually satisfying thesis.

More: https://aoisenju.com/timeline-jumpstart-energy.html.md

### July 2016 to early 2018 · R&D Engineer, Advanced Development @ 24M Technologies

Technical lead on a $3.5M ARPA-E battery program, translating electrochemistry into product decisions that had to hold up on a real roadmap.

The first place where a result I cared about was not real until the rest of the business agreed it was.

More: https://aoisenju.com/timeline-24m-technologies.html.md

### September 2012 to June 2016 · Princeton University

B.S.E. in Chemical and Biological Engineering. Battery research in Dan Steingart's lab, campus leadership, and internships that made energy feel like a business problem, not just a science problem.

Where the engineering, energy, writing, and leadership threads first started braiding together.

More: https://aoisenju.com/timeline-princeton.html.md