typecast
Headquarters
Seoul, South KoreaFounded
2017CEO / Founder
Taesu KimEmployees
51-200Funding
Series B — $29MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.2/10Website
typecast.ai
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About typecast
Typecast is an AI voice generation platform developed by Neosapience, founded in 2017 in Seoul by former Qualcomm engineers and KAIST graduates Taesu Kim and Saebom Park. The product uses proprietary Smart Emotion technology to generate context-aware performances from scripts.
Typecast is used by more than 2 million registered users worldwide, including broadcasters, telecoms, e-commerce, and education companies creating voiceovers at scale.
Neosapience has raised approximately $29 million across multiple rounds, including an $11.5 million pre-IPO round led by Intervest, HB Investment, K2 Investment, and Bokwang Investment.
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Competitive Landscape
Who typecast competes with, and how they differ.
Most direct competitor in AI voice generation, but skews toward API-first voice-agent and dubbing infrastructure for developers, versus Typecast's content-creator studio with built-in video avatars.
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Similar AI voiceover studio for creators and marketers, leaning into corporate training/video-narration use cases versus Typecast's entertainment and character-voice angle (singing, rapping, emotional range).
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Voice cloning and real-time voice API positioned as developer infrastructure for building voice products, versus Typecast's no-code studio aimed directly at content creators.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedOriginated as a text-to-speech reading/accessibility tool for turning documents into audio, a different core use case than Typecast's voice-actor content-creation studio.
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AI dubbing and localization focused specifically on film and TV, a narrower media-localization vertical versus Typecast's broader content-creator voice platform.
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Key milestones in typecast's history, with sources.
- Funding
Pre-IPO round — $11.5M led by Intervest
Neosapience closed an $11.5M pre-IPO round with Intervest, HB Investment, K2 Investment Partners and Bokwang Investment, bringing total funding to roughly $29M, ahead of a planned Korea Stock Market listing.
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Series B — $21.5M led by BRV Capital Management
BRV Capital Management led a $21.5M Series B with Stic Ventures, Quantum Ventures and existing investors Company K Partners and Daekyo Investment, bringing total funding to $26.7M. The same announcement introduced the first commercially available AI voices that sing and rap.
techcrunch.com - Launch
Typecast launches as an AI voice-actor service
Neosapience launched Typecast, offering 170+ virtual voice actors converting text scripts into realistic, emotional speech for content creators.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Founded by Taesu Kim
Taesu Kim, a former Qualcomm and LG Electronics machine-learning lead, founded Neosapience in Seoul in 2017 to build AI-powered virtual actors.
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