Nota AI

What Nota AI does

Nota AI (Nota Inc., KOSDAQ: 486990) is a South Korea-headquartered, publicly traded deep-tech company founded in 2015 in Daejeon that builds hardware-aware AI model optimization and on-device AI solutions for enterprise and government customers. Its flagship product, the NetsPresso® platform, performs pruning, quantization, and operator transformation to compress deep learning models by 90%+ while preserving accuracy, and is paired with a proprietary hardware-aware compiler (NPIR). NetsPresso is licensed into the product lines of major chip vendors — Samsung Exynos (including the 2600 and Galaxy S26 EdgeFusion), Qualcomm edge AI devices, Arm-based platforms, NVIDIA, Mobilint (MLA100/MLA400), FuriosaAI (RNGD), and SiMa.ai (Modalix MLSoC) — creating both direct licensing and embedded distribution revenue.

On top of NetsPresso, Nota AI delivers vertical AI solutions: the Nota Vision Agent (NVA), built on NVIDIA VSS, for video analytics across ITS, industrial safety, surveillance, and disaster broadcasting (deployed with KBS, Daejeon Regional Office, Kolon Industries, KURA in Kenya, and ITC Abu Dhabi); the Smart Intersection System for edge-based traffic analytics; and EdgeFusion on-device Stable Diffusion co-developed with Samsung. Its go-to-market is sales-led enterprise with multiple motions — direct OEM/embedded licensing to semiconductor firms, field sales into public-sector and industrial customers, system-integrator channels (LG CNS, HANIL STM, Kolon Benit), event-led demand generation (Embedded World, SECON, ITS World Congress, NVIDIA conferences), and community-led developer relations via PyTorch Foundation membership and Hugging Face. Revenue is generated through technology supply and licensing contracts, managed deployments of vertical solutions, platform subscriptions, and joint commercialization partnerships (LG AI Research EXAONE, Upstage Solar). FY2024 revenue was 8.4B KRW with 14.5B KRW projected for 2025 and Q1 2026 orders of 11.8B KRW (+111% YoY).

Name

Nota AI

Legal name

Nota Inc.

Website

https://nota.ai

Company type

Public

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Ipo

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Nota AI builds NetsPresso®, a hardware-aware AI model compression platform licensed into Samsung, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Mobilint, FuriosaAI, and SiMa.ai products, and delivers Nota Vision Agent video analytics and Smart Intersection ITS solutions to government and industrial customers across Korea, UAE, Kenya, and the USA.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Model Optimization Software / Edge AI Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDAEANAF

AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

SECONDARYHDAEANAG

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

SECONDARYHDAAACAL

Model Compression & Optimization (Quantization, Distillation, Pruning)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Foundation Models & Generative AI (LLMs, multimodal)

SECONDARYHDAAAKAL

Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/AI Security, Privacy & Model Governance

SECONDARYHDAAAJAA

Edge AI Model Optimization & Compression (quantization, pruning, distillation)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Edge AI & On-Device Machine Learning

SECONDARYHDAAACAI

Safety, Alignment & Content Moderation (Guardrails, Red Teaming)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Foundation Models & Generative AI (LLMs, multimodal)

SECONDARYHDAAAMAL

Safety & Alignment Evaluation (red-teaming, harmful capability testing)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/AI Ethics & Compliance Solutions

SECONDARYHDAAAMAB

Model Transparency, Explainability & Interpretability (XAI)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/AI Ethics & Compliance Solutions

Keywords

• AI model optimization
• Edge AI software
• Model compression platform
• Video analytics solutions
• Intelligent transportation systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Seoul

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Technology supply & licensing (NetsPresso): Supply/licensing of NetsPresso optimization platform to semiconductor companies (Samsung Exynos, Qualcomm, Arm, Mobilint MLA100/MLA400, FuriosaAI RNGD, SiMa.ai) and to ITS/Smart Intersection system integrators under technology supply contracts.
2. Solution deployment & managed services (NVA, ITS, Industrial Safety, DMS&FR, Surveillance): Deployment of Nota Vision Agent and other vertical AI solutions for traffic/ITS (Korea, UAE, Kenya, USA), industrial safety (Kolon Industries), disaster broadcasting (KBS), and security/surveillance, often via SIs (LG CNS, HANIL STM) or direct public-sector contracts.
3. Platform subscriptions / API access: NetsPresso platform access (self-serve/PLG-style) and Hugging Face-hosted optimized models supporting recurring and usage-based revenue for AI developers.
4. Joint go-to-market commercialization (LLM, edge AI): Revenue from joint commercialization partnerships where Nota compresses/optimizes partner models (LG EXAONE, Upstage Solar) for cross-industry deployment, creating shared commercial opportunities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion6 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Nota AI sells the NetsPresso® hardware-aware AI model optimization platform — compressing deep learning models via pruning, quantization, and operator transformation by up to 90%+ while preserving accuracy — alongside vertical AI solutions built on it: Nota Vision Agent (NVA) on-device video analytics, Industrial Safety monitoring, Surveillance, ITS (Smart Intersection), and DMS&FR. The platform is licensed into leading NPUs/SoCs and deployed as managed solutions to public-sector and industrial customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NetsPresso®: Flagship AI model compression and optimization platform that reduces model size by up to 90%+ while maintaining accuracy for on-device / edge AI deployment.
• NVA (Nota Vision Agent)

Products and services

• NetsPresso® Hardware-aware AI model compression and optimization platform that performs pruning, quantization, and operator transformation to reduce AI model size by up to 90% while maintaining accuracy, enabling deployment across diverse hardware (Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung Exynos, NVIDIA, FuriosaAI, Mobilint, SiMa.ai). Licensed to semiconductor firms and accessed by developers via the NetsPresso platform and Hugging Face-hosted optimized models.
• Nota Vision Agent (NVA) On-device video analytics solution built on NVIDIA VSS (Video Search and Summarization) that combines computer vision with vision language model technology, enabling natural-language rule setting and situational context analysis without cloud transmission. KISA-certified (90%+ average accuracy) and 99% accuracy (Highest Grade) in Korea MOLIT ITS evaluation. Deployed in traffic control (Daejeon Regional Office), industrial safety (Kolon Industries Gimcheon Plant 2), police, local governments, military, and KBS disaster broadcasting.
• Industrial Safety AI-powered worker safety and dangerous area monitoring solution for manufacturing and industrial sites. Deployed at Kolon Industries' Gimcheon Plant 2 via Kolon Benit partnership. Powered by NetsPresso-optimized on-device AI.
• Surveillance AI-based security surveillance solution built on Nota Vision Agent technology. Enables real-time monitoring and detection of incidents using existing CCTV infrastructure, deployed with police, local governments, and military agencies for facility protection and crowd management.
• ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Smart Intersection System providing real-time traffic analysis (vehicle classification, traffic volume, queue length, pedestrian/jaywalker and wrong-way detection) on local CCTV without relying on a central server; each edge device can manage multiple CCTV channels simultaneously. Deployed in South Korea, UAE, Kenya, and the USA.
• DMS & FR (Driver Monitoring & Face Recognition) AI driver monitoring and face recognition solution for in-cabin and mobility use cases, leveraging NetsPresso-optimized on-device AI. Listed as a vertical AI solution on Nota AI's official website navigation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 90%+ AI model size reduction with maintained accuracy via NetsPresso
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Kolon BenitcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 June 2026Systems integrator for NVA deployment at Kolon Industries' Gimcheon Plant 2 for worker safety and dangerous area monitoring in industrial environments.
• QualcommcoreTechnology or Integration · 29 May 2026Optimization of vision-language-action (VLA) model (SmolVLA 0.45B) on Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ-9075 edge AI device, achieving 85.8% reduction in robot action generation time and ~7× faster inference. Demonstrated at Embedded Vision Summit 2026.
• MobilintflagshipOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 7 May 2026Strategic partnership and AI optimization technology supply agreement licensing NetsPresso for integration into Mobilint NPU product lineup (MLA100 and MLA400). Enables end users to receive AI models compressed, quantized, and optimized for Mobilint hardware in a single package, targeting industrial safety, intelligent transportation, smart city, and security surveillance.
• NVIDIAflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 April 2026Joint development of Video AI Agent technology combining NVIDIA's VSS (Video Search and Summarization) 3.1 multi-agent structure with Nota Vision Agent (NVA) field-customized capabilities. Nota AI is the only Korean company on the panel at NVIDIA APAC Partner Day and was the only Korean participant in Jensen Huang's closed-door seminar with AI startups. Won the Grand Prize at the NVIDIA Nemotron Hackathon 2026.
• SiMa.aiflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 March 2026Strategic partnership signed at SiMa.ai's San Jose headquarters for Physical AI. Integrates NetsPresso with SiMa.ai's Palette SDK and Modalix MLSoC, achieving >90% model size reduction while maintaining accuracy. Targets Intelligent Transportation Systems, safety, security, robotics, and mobility.
• K-Moonshot Promotion Strategy (South Korean government R&D project)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 March 2026Joined 33-company public-private partnership including LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom, Naver Cloud, and KT, providing NetsPresso® on-device AI platform technology for national AI sovereignty and infrastructure independence.
• ArmcoreTechnology or Integration · 9 March 2026Ongoing collaboration for AI model lightweighting and deployment on Arm-based platforms; demonstrated at Embedded World 2026 with real-time AI performance on edge hardware.
• UpstagecoreTechnology or Integration · 6 March 2026Nota AI MoE Quantization reduced memory requirements of Upstage's Solar 100B LLM by 72.8% (191.2GB → 51.9GB) while maintaining comparable performance, as part of South Korea's Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project.
• PyTorch FoundationcoreOthers · 24 February 2026Joined PyTorch Foundation as a member in the Linux Foundation-hosted open-source ecosystem, alongside CMU, Monash, University of Leicester, NIPA and other AI companies. Supports agentic AI innovation.
• KBS (Korean Broadcasting System)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 19 February 2026Introduced Vision Language Model (VLM) technology for disaster broadcasting, analyzing thousands of CCTV cameras as visual input. CEO Cha Myung-soo highlighted the project as a meaningful case of Nota optimization technology being commercialized in the media field.
• Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) of Abu DhabicoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 10 February 2026Strategic agreement signed at UMEX and SimTEX 2026 under the guidance of the Smart and Autonomous Systems Council for AI-enabled traffic incident management systems across Abu Dhabi.
• FuriosaAIflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2026Strategic partnership to optimize AI models for FuriosaAI's second-generation RNGD NPU using NetsPresso quantization, expanding commercialization into data centers. Combined solution targets security, medical, retail, and smart building sectors; partners include Nota Vision Agent for real-time monitoring and video search.
• Samsung ElectronicsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 December 2025Multi-stage partnership: technology collaboration for Exynos AI Studio (Nov 2025); supply contract for Exynos 2600 mobile AP (Dec 2025); co-development of EdgeFusion on-device Stable Diffusion for Galaxy S26 (Feb 2026). Powers on-device AI for Galaxy flagship devices including the S26 Ultra's privacy display features.
• Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 16 December 2025Contract via LG CNS and HANIL STM to supply Nota AI's Smart Intersection System for the Nairobi ITS project under a Traffic Control Center establishment project. Marks Nota AI's entry into the African market.
• LG CNScoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 16 December 2025Co-lead partner (with Kenya Urban Roads Authority) on the Nairobi Traffic Control Center establishment project; Nota AI supplies Smart Intersection System via LG CNS.
• HANIL STMminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 16 December 2025Handles system design and management for the Nairobi ITS project integrating Nota AI's Smart Intersection System.
• LG AI ResearchflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 December 2025EXAONE commercialization partnership to integrate Nota AI pruning and quantization techniques into LG's EXAONE large language model for device-level deployment across transportation and industrial safety use cases.
• National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA, Korea)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 15 October 2025NIPA hosted Global AI Leadership Forum at Expand North Star in Dubai to strengthen Korea-UAE partnership; featured Nota AI's KOSDAQ listing announcement and broader AI collaboration.
• Wind RivercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 July 2025Strategic collaboration integrating NetsPresso optimization platform with Wind River's software stack (VxWorks, Helix Virtualization Platform, eLxr Pro) for mission-critical edge AI in aerospace, defense, robotics, and industrial automation.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Deeplite: Deeplite is an edge AI model optimization startup offering automated neural network compression and quantization for resource-constrained devices, directly overlapping with Nota AI's NetsPresso platform in target customers, technology (pruning, quantization), and use cases.
• OctoAI: OctoAI (formerly OctoML) optimizes and deploys ML models across hardware targets with hardware-aware compilation, competing head-to-head with NetsPresso for ML engineering teams that need efficient model deployment on diverse silicon.
• Latent AI: Latent AI focuses on edge AI model compression and adaptive inference, with a comparable hardware-aware quantization toolset to NetsPresso and a similar go-to-market into semiconductor and industrial customers.
• Iteris: Iteris is a US-based intelligent transportation systems vendor with smart intersection, traffic analytics, and V2X offerings — directly comparable to Nota AI's Smart Intersection System deployments in Korea, UAE, Kenya, and the USA.
• Kapsch TrafficCom: Kapsch TrafficCom delivers intelligent transportation solutions including adaptive traffic control and intersection management, competing with Nota AI's NVA-based Smart Intersection System in the global ITS procurement market.
• Cubic: Cubic's transportation segment provides traffic management, intersection control, and smart city analytics — a direct competitor to Nota AI's vertical ITS solutions and a natural comparison for public-sector transportation authorities.
• BriefCam: BriefCam (now part of Milestone Systems) provides video analytics for surveillance, security, and operational intelligence on existing CCTV infrastructure — directly comparable to Nota AI's Nota Vision Agent (NVA) for surveillance, police, military, and smart city use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Qualcomm: Qualcomm ships first-party AI optimization tooling (Qualcomm AI Hub, Neural Processing SDK) and Dragonwing edge AI silicon. While Nota AI is a current optimization partner, Qualcomm's broader portfolio and in-house tools make it both a customer and a potential competitor in edge AI optimization.
• NVIDIA: NVIDIA offers TensorRT and VSS (Video Search and Summarization) — the latter is the underlying technology Nota AI's NVA builds on. NVIDIA's own optimization stack and dominance in AI compute make it both a strategic partner (NVA integration, APAC Partner Day) and a structural threat to NetsPresso's positioning.

Emerging players

• SiMa.ai: SiMa.ai builds the Modalix MLSoC and Palette SDK for physical AI on the edge. Nota AI and SiMa.ai have a strategic partnership that integrates NetsPresso into SiMa.ai's stack, but SiMa.ai also pursues its own model optimization path and targets the same physical AI / ITS / robotics use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nota_ai
• GitHubhuggingface.co/nota-ai
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@notaincorporated216
• Facebookfacebook.com/NotaAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/notaai

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors17 records

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M&A

Investments

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