Nota AI
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.
- Company typePublic
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersSeoul, South Korea
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
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).
Nota AI firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Nota AI
- Legal name
- Nota Inc.
- Website
- https://nota.ai
- Company type
- Public
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Ipo
- Headcount range
- 1–10 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
Nota AI industry classification
Industry- Product category
- AI Model Optimization Software / Edge AI Platform
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)
- akta.pro primary industry
- AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Model Compression & Optimization (Quantization, Distillation, Pruning) (HDAAACAL), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), Edge AI Model Optimization & Compression (quantization, pruning, distillation) (HDAAAJAA), Safety, Alignment & Content Moderation (Guardrails, Red Teaming) (HDAAACAI), Safety & Alignment Evaluation (red-teaming, harmful capability testing) (HDAAAMAL), Model Transparency, Explainability & Interpretability (XAI) (HDAAAMAB)
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Where Nota AI is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Seoul
- HQ country
- South Korea
- HQ region
- Asia
Offices4 records
Markets served
Nota AI business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others
Revenue model
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Enterprise licensing (quote-based) |
Go-to-market motion6 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels7 records
Nota AI product offering
Product offeringCore 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
Companies that use Nota AI
Customer profileNamed customers6 records
Segments6 records
Ideal customer profiles6 records
Nota AI technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration7 records
AI capability11 records
Feature8 records
Nota AI partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
19 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.
- Kolon BenitcoreSystems integrator for NVA deployment at Kolon Industries' Gimcheon Plant 2 for worker safety and dangerous area monitoring in industrial environments.
- QualcommcoreOptimization 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.
- MobilintflagshipStrategic 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.
- NVIDIAflagshipJoint 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 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)flagshipJoined 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.
- ArmcoreOngoing collaboration for AI model lightweighting and deployment on Arm-based platforms; demonstrated at Embedded World 2026 with real-time AI performance on edge hardware.
- UpstagecoreNota 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 FoundationcoreJoined 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)coreIntroduced 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 DhabicoreStrategic 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 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 ElectronicsflagshipMulti-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)coreContract 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 CNScoreCo-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 STMminorHandles system design and management for the Nairobi ITS project integrating Nota AI's Smart Intersection System.
- LG AI ResearchflagshipEXAONE 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)minorNIPA 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 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
Nota AI competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect 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
Nota AI social profiles
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Trust signalCompliance5 records
Nota AI financial estimates
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Nota AI leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles11 records
Nota AI subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries2 records
Nota AI funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds9 records
Investors17 records
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Nota AI M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Nota AI
What does Nota AI do?
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.
Is Nota AI a public or private company?
Nota AI is a public company. It is classified as public and is currently ipo.
When was Nota AI founded?
Nota AI was founded in 2015. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is Nota AI based?
Nota AI is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, in the Asia region.
How does Nota AI make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Technology supply & licensing (NetsPresso) is the primary driver. The others are solution deployment & managed services (NVA, ITS, Industrial Safety, DMS&FR, Surveillance), platform subscriptions / API access and joint go-to-market commercialization (LLM, edge AI).
Who are Nota AI's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Deeplite, OctoAI, Latent AI, Iteris, Kapsch TrafficCom, Cubic and BriefCam. Broad incumbents are Qualcomm and NVIDIA. SiMa.ai is listed as an emerging player.
Does Nota AI have an API?
No public API is recorded for Nota AI.
What industry is Nota AI in?
Nota AI's product category is AI Model Optimization Software / Edge AI Platform. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEANAF, AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety), with a secondary code of HDAEANAG, Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII). Its NAICS code is 5132.