Elsa Overview

  • Year Founded
  • 2015

Year Founded

  • Status
  • Private

  • Employees
  • 185

Employees

  • Latest Deal Type
  • Series C

  • Latest Deal Amount
  • $22.5M

  • Investors
  • 19

Elsa General Information

Description

Developer of a language learning platform designed to improve English pronunciation. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and speech recognition technology with the capability to identify phoneme-level pronunciation feedback to language learners around the world and provide them with real-time phonetic instructions on how they can fix these errors, enabling users to speak English fluently and confidently.

Contact Information

Website
www.elsaspeak.com
Ownership Status
Privately Held (backing)
Financing Status
Venture Capital-Backed
Primary Industry
Educational Software
Primary Office
  • 139 Old Orchard Drive
  • Los Gatos, CA 95032
  • United States

Elsa Timeline

2020202120222023
Financing RoundCaptured Employee CountEstimated Employee Growth

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Elsa Valuation & Funding

Deal Type Date Amount Raised to Date Post-Val Status Stage
10. Later Stage VC (Series C) 11-Sep-2023 $22.5M 000.00 00000 Completed Generating Revenue
9. Secondary Transaction - Private 0000 Completed Generating Revenue
8. Later Stage VC (Series B) 11-Jan-2021 0000 0000 0000 Completed Generating Revenue
7. Early Stage VC (Series A) 27-Feb-2019 000 0000 0000 Completed Generating Revenue
6. Early Stage VC (Series A) 06-Mar-2018 00.00 00.000 000.00 Completed Generating Revenue
5. Accelerator/Incubator 27-Feb-2017 00.000 Completed Product Development
4. Accelerator/Incubator 30-Jan-2017 00.000 Completed Product Development
3. Angel (individual) 08-Mar-2016 0000 00.000 Completed Startup
2. Seed Round 01-Jan-2016 $1.79M $1.79M Completed Startup
1. Accelerator/Incubator 01-Aug-2015 Completed Startup
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Elsa Cap Table

Stock # of Shares
Authorized		 Par Value Dividend Rate (%) Original
Issue Price		 Liquidation Liquidation
Pref. Multiple		 Conversion Price % Owned
Series C 00,000,000 00.000000 00 00.00 00.00 00 00.00 00.000
Series B 0,000,000 00.000000 00 00.00 00.00 00 00.00 00.000
Series A 0,000,000 00.000000 00 00.00 00.00 00 00.00 00.000
Pre-Series A5 000,000 00.000000 00 00.00 00.00 00 00.00 0.000
Pre-Series A4 000,000 00.000000 00 00.0 00.0 00 00.0 0.000
Pre-Series A3 0,000,000 00.000000 00 00.00 00.00 00 00.00 0.00
Pre-Series A2 513,992 $0.000010 8% $0.63 $0.63 1x $0.63 1.2%
Pre-Series A1 3,523,960 $0.000010 8% $0.86 $0.86 1x $0.86 8.24%
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Elsa Comparisons

Description
Primary
Industry
HQ Location
Employees
Total Raised
Post Valuation
Last
Financing
Details
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Educational Software
Los Gatos, CA
185 As of 2023
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Elsa Competitors (31)

Company Name Financing Status Location Employees Total Raised Last Financing Date/Type Last Financing Amount
SoapBox (Educational Software) Venture Capital-Backed Dublin, Ireland 00 000.00 0000000000 0 000.00
00000 000000000 Corporation Farmington Hills, MI 000
0000000 Corporation Hong Kong, Hong Kong
000000000 Accelerator/Incubator Backed Bhopal, India 000000000000
00000000 Formerly VC-backed Pittsburgh, PA 000 00000 00000000 00000
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Elsa Patents

  • 3

    Total Documents Applications and Grants

  • 000

    Total Patents Families

  • 1

    Granted

  • 1

    Pending

  • 000

    Expiring in next 12 mo

Elsa Recent Patent Activity

Publication ID Patent Title Status First Filing Date Technology (CPC) Citations
US-20220189337-A1 Methods for producing personalized lesson recommendations in language learning applications Active 11-Dec-2020 00000000
US-11495139-B2 Methods for producing personalized lesson recommendations in language learning applications Active 11-Dec-2020 000000000 0
US-20210225389-A1 Methods for measuring speech intelligibility, and related systems and apparatus Pending 17-Jan-2020 G10L21/0364 0

Elsa Executive Team (5)

Name Title Board Seat Contact Info
Vu Van Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Xavier Anguera Ph.D Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer & Chief Scientist
Binh Tran Advisor
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Elsa Board Members (3)

Name Representing Role Since
Clarissa Loh Self Board Member 000 0000
Peng Ong Monk's Hill Ventures Board Member 000 0000
Zachary Bratun-Glennon JD Gradient Ventures Board Member 000 0000
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Elsa Signals

Growth Rate

0.80% Weekly
Growth
Weekly Growth 0.80%, 93rd %
-35.5%. 530%

Size Multiple

219x Median
Size Multiple 219x, 100th %ile
0.00x 0.95x. 413Kx

Key Data Points

Twitter Followers

5.5k

Similarweb Unique Visitors

15.0K

Majestic Referring Domains

314

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Elsa Investors (19)

Investor Name Investor Type Holding Investor Since Participating Rounds Contact Info
Aozora Bank Corporation Minority 000 0000 000000 0
Development Bank of Japan Corporation Minority 000 0000 000000 0
Uni-President Enterprises Corporation Minority 000 0000 000000 0
UOB Venture Management Venture Capital Minority 000 0000 000000 0
Endeavor Catalyst Corporate Venture Capital Minority 000 0000 000000 0
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