Intellisia has raised ₩3.4 billion ($2.5 million) in pre-Series A funding to scale its synthetic consumer research and retail simulation platform across Asia and North America. The round closed above its initial ₩3 billion target.
Kakao Ventures led the investment, joined by Murex Partners, Capstone Partners, and founder Baek Seung-guk, who committed personal capital to the round. The Seoul-based company builds virtual consumer profiles trained on real-world purchasing data to answer product surveys, evaluate packaging, and simulate retail store behavior.
Enterprise Traction and Accuracy Metrics
Traditional consumer research takes weeks or months to recruit panels and return responses. Intellisia runs identical query sets through its platform, TheSurvey.ai, within hours. The company reports an average reproduction rate above 90 percent when testing its synthetic models against actual human survey results.
That accuracy has converted pilots into commercial contracts across South Korea’s consumer sector. Intellisia has logged more than 200 project engagements, working with packaged food manufacturers CJ CheilJedang, Pulmuone, and Lotte Wellfood, as well as telecoms group LG Uplus, furniture maker Fursys Group, and convenience store operator BGF Retail. More than 60 percent of enterprise proof-of-concept trials converted into paid annual contracts.
Baek previously co-founded content recommendation engine Dable, which scaled across seven Asian markets before selling to travel platform Yanolja in 2021. He founded Intellisia to apply similar predictive data modeling to consumer behavior testing.
From Survey Panels to Store Twins
Packaged goods manufacturers and retail chains across East Asia face compressed product lifecycles and rising sample recruitment costs. Using synthetic consumer cohorts allows brand managers to test dozens of packaging variations or pricing structures before committing physical inventory to supermarket shelves.
Intellisia is now pushing beyond questionnaires into physical store simulation. The company is preparing trials for ParaStore, an AI digital twin platform where virtual shoppers interact with store layouts, shelf placements, and merchandising plans. BGF Retail, which operates South Korea’s CU convenience store chain, will test the system for store operations and category management.
A commercial subscription-based software platform goes live in the fourth quarter of this year, followed by market launches in Japan and the United States next year.
