Neosapience
Category: Voice / Speech AI
Korean AI startup behind Typecast, an emotionally expressive AI voice, avatar, and conversational-agent platform. Neosapience was founded in 2017. The company is led by Taesu Kim. Based in Seoul, South Korea. Team size: 51-100. Total funding raised: $29M. Latest round: Pre-IPO. Key investors include BRV Capital Management, Bokwang Investment, InterVest, HB Investment, K2 Investment Partners, AWS Generative AI Accelerator, Stic Ventures, Quantum Ventures, Company K Partners, Albatross Investment Capital, Daekyo Investment, TimeWorks Investment.
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- Seoul, South Korea
- Team size
- 51-100
- Total funding
- $29M
Value proposition
Lets creators and businesses 'cast' AI voices like casting a voice actor, generating emotionally and contextually aware speech, video, and conversational agents from a proprietary Speech Synthesis Foundation Model trained on over a million hours of speech data.
Products and solutions
Typecast (TTS/AI dubbing voice+avatar generator), Typecast API, Neona AI (conversational AI agent builder)
Unique value
Proprietary in-house audio-visual foundation model that jointly generates voice, facial expression, and gesture from a single prompt, built on billions of parameters and 1M+ hours of speech data, backed by NeurIPS/Interspeech/ICASSP publications.
Target customer
Content creators, media/entertainment studios, enterprises building conversational AI agents, developers via API (users in 225+ countries)
Industries served
Media/Entertainment, Content Creation, Customer Service/Conversational AI, Localization/Dubbing
Technology advantage
Typecast SSFM (Speech Synthesis Foundation Model), full in-house stack (listening/thinking/speaking) for low-latency conversational AI, extensive peer-reviewed publication record (10+ papers at top AI/speech conferences)
How they differentiate
Focus on 'emotionally intelligent' and context-aware voice generation plus integrated avatar/gesture generation from a single prompt, versus competitors' narrower focus on voice cloning/TTS alone
Main competitors
ElevenLabs, Resemble AI, Cartesia
Key partnerships
AWS Generative AI Accelerator program participant, research collaborations reflected in publications at NeurIPS, Interspeech, ICASSP
Notable customers
Chzzk (Naver streaming), SOOP, LG U+, SBS, CJ OnStyle, Hybe Edu, Chosun Ilbo
Major milestones
2017: Founded by KAIST/ex-Qualcomm team, 2018: Seed round, 2022: $21.5M Series B led by BRV Capital, Dec 2025: $11.5M Pre-IPO round (InterVest/HB/K2/Bokwang), total ~$29M / 427억, Mar 2026: Passed tech evaluation for Cosdaq tech-listing track, Jul 2026: Cosdaq preliminary listing approval (예심 통과); underwriter Daishin Securities
Growth metrics
3.2M+ Typecast registered users (Edaily Jul 2026; ~2.63M as of Nov 2025); users in 225+ countries; 2025 revenue ~KRW 106.5억 (~66% YoY); Cosdaq 예심 passed Jul 2026, IPO process ongoing (not yet listed)
Market positioning
Emotionally expressive full-stack (voice+face+gesture) AI content platform; Cosdaq preliminary listing approval (Jul 2026) with Daishin Securities as underwriter; competing with global voice-AI leaders like ElevenLabs
Geographic focus
Global (225+ countries), with strong South Korea/APAC roots and expanding US presence (CEO based in SF Bay Area)
Patents and IP
27 patents tracked (The VC mid-2026); multiple US grants assigned to NEOSAPIENCE, INC. (e.g. US12183320 TTS UI; US12573374 ML TTS; US12676140 multilingual speech translation; real-time video content generation apps)
About Taesu Kim
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) alum; AI/speech researcher and co-author of multiple TTS papers (Voice Imitating Text-to-Speech Neural Networks, Diff-TTS, EdiTTS); Co-founder and CEO of Neosapience since 2017.
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Official website: https://neosapience.com/en/