Neosapience, Inc.

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Neosapience, Inc. (Korean: 네오사피엔스; short name Neosapience) is a generative-AI voice company founded in 2017 by former Qualcomm engineers, led by co-founder/CEO Taesu Kim. It is headquartered in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, with a US office at 400 Concar Drive, San Mateo, California. Previously venture-backed (roughly $38M raised, including a $21.5M Series B led by BRV Capital Management), it listed on KOSDAQ on September 21, 2026 under code KR70161M0003, raising about KRW 20B at KRW 10,000 per share. Reported FY2025 revenue was KRW 10.65B with a KRW 2.68B operating loss; H1 2026 revenue was KRW 6B with a KRW 3.36B operating loss. Third-party trackers estimate roughly 60–75 employees; no company-disclosed headcount was verified.

Its core product is Typecast, a web- and API-based generative AI voice platform offering 700+ AI voice characters across 37 languages, with emotion and prosody controls built on its in-house SSFM 3.0 speech-synthesis model. The company also offers text-to-video/avatar synthesis, a text-to-speech API listed on the AWS Marketplace, and Neona AI for conversational AI agents. Reported customers include SOOP, CJ OnStyle, LG Uplus, and SBS, with 2,000+ corporate clients and about 3.2 million cumulative registered users. Neosapience is an operating company with its own patent filings in speech synthesis and computational linguistics (CB Insights counts ~13 filings; PitchBook reports 46 grants), not a shell licensor.

Litigation posture: zero cases as plaintiff and one as defendant in the tracked data — a practicing operating company defending against an NPE suit, filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case: Cedar Lane Technologies, Inc. v. Neosapience, Inc., No. 2:25-cv-00823 (E.D. Tex., filed Aug. 20, 2025), asserted US 8,438,485 on interactive audio publications. Cedar Lane is a Canadian NPE formed in 2019 that has filed hundreds of suits, largely on patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures, and has also targeted AI voice firms such as Speechify and Resemble AI. Neosapience was represented by Troutman Pepper Locke. Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed the case with prejudice on January 14, 2026, 147 days after filing, with each party bearing its own costs.