Neosapience Raises USD 11.5M for AI Voice Technology

On December 11, 2025, Korean AI startup Neosapience, the company behind generative voice platform Typecast, announced that it has closed a USD 11.5m funding round to support development in emotional and conversational AI voice. The company referred to the fundraise as a “pre-IPO round” without further elaborating on any plans to go public.

The round included participation from strategic investors including HB Investment and K2 Investment Partners.

Neosapience said the fresh capital will support global expansion, continued R&D, and broader multilingual localization — with a focus on English, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese — while further investing in its “emotionally intelligent” speech synthesis technology.

As Neosapience CEO Taesu Kim told Deadline Hollywood, the focus is “evolving from simple voice generation into true conversational AI that listens, thinks, and speaks in real time.”

Founded in 2017 by former Qualcomm engineers and KAIST graduates, Neosapience positions Typecast around its proprietary “smart emotion” technology, which analyzes scripts line by line to automatically generate context-appropriate tone and delivery without extensive prompting. 

Kim added that the platform can generate highly expressive synthetic voices using minimal source material. “With just a few minutes of human audio we can develop a voice with AI that expands on the original, delivering rich performances well beyond what was recorded,” he said.

Typecast is used by more than 2 million registered users worldwide, spanning creators, media companies, and enterprises across sectors including broadcasting, telecom, e-commerce, and education.

The funding round comes as investor interest grows in emotion-aware and multilingual voice AI, particularly for media, content creation, and localization use cases. Neosapience said the financing validates Typecast’s trajectory and technology as it scales globally and prepares for its next phase of growth.