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ELSA

ELSA sells AI English speaking and communication training to individual learners, businesses, and schools.

StageEarly-stage

Founded2015

HeadquartersLos Gatos, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• ELSA Speech Analyzer Application Sold on its own

  ELSA Speech Analyzer analyzes spoken English and provides AI feedback on pronunciation, fluency, intonation and vocabulary.

• ELSA Professional Application Sold on its own

  ELSA Professional provides AI coaches for practicing workplace questions and scenarios.

• ELSA Speak Application Sold on its own

  English speaking app that gives instant AI feedback on pronunciation, fluency, grammar and vocabulary, builds a personalised learning path, and offers a bilingual AI tutor and AI role-play conversations, on a free plan and paid Pro, Premium and Professional plans.

• ELSA Business Application Sold on its own

  Corporate English training for employees with AI speaking practice for work situations, a diagnostic and CEFR-aligned benchmarking, and an admin dashboard with progress reports for HR and L&D teams.

• ELSA Schools Application

  AI speaking practice for K-12 classrooms: teachers create or AI-generate lessons and assign speaking activities, students practise independently with instant AI feedback, and class-wide analytics track progress.

• ELSA API API service Sold on its own

  Speech assessment API that scores a learner's recorded English, scripted or unscripted, for pronunciation, intonation, fluency, and for unscripted speech grammar and vocabulary, returning feedback for language-learning products.

Inside ELSA Speak

• ELSA AI Application Included with the parent

  ELSA AI provides English conversation roleplays with an AI tutor and feedback on the learner’s performance.

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BBoldVoiceUndisclosedELSA Speak and BoldVoice both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareBBusuuUndisclosedELSA Speak and Busuu both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareCConversaideUndisclosedELSA Speak and Conversaide both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareLLooraEarly-stageELSA Speak and Loora both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; same layer and the same scale band (early-stage private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSame scale bandCompareLLLumi LabsUndisclosedELSA Speak and LingoLooper both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMMemriseUndisclosedELSA Speak and MemBot both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareTTutorLilyUndisclosedELSA Speak and TutorLily both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeComparePPraktikaEarly-stageELSA Professional and Praktika both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; same layer and the same scale band (early-stage private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSame scale bandCompareRSRosetta StoneAcquiredELSA Professional and Rosetta Stone Sapphire both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; ELSA's scale not recorded; Rosetta Stone is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSCSpanish ChatUndisclosedELSA AI and Maya both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSpeakLate-stageELSA Business and Speak for Business both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; ELSA's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareDDuolingoPublicELSA Speak and Duolingo Max both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; ELSA's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareTATalkio AIUndisclosedELSA AI and Talkio AI both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMAMathos AIUndisclosedELSA Schools and Mathos AI both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMMathwayUndisclosedELSA Schools and Mathway both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSAStuddy AIUndisclosedELSA Schools and Studdy: AI Tutor & Math Solver both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSymbolabUndisclosedELSA Schools and Symbolab AI Math Solver both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareCCrestaLate-stageELSA Business and Training Simulator both list education and tutoring; ELSA's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublicELSA Schools and Reading Progress both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; ELSA's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareIiFlytekPublicELSA Speak and iFLYTEK Smart Dictionary Pen both list education and tutoring; both also serve buyers who need to learn a language; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareCCodeSignalEarly-stageELSA Speak and CodeSignal Learn both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeComparePPictoryUndisclosedELSA Speak and Pictory Central both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareHHumbotUndisclosedELSA AI and Humbot both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareWWorkdayPublicELSA Speak and Workday Learning, powered by Sana both list education and tutoring; ELSA's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSuperhumanUndisclosedELSA Schools and AI Grader both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareOOtter.aiUndisclosedELSA Schools and Otter AI Education Notetaker both list education and tutoring; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Stage, from total funding

Company disclosure · 15 Oct 2026

"has raised approximately $60 million"

Valuation

Not found · 15 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no valuation or market capitalisation.

Founded

Company disclosure · 15 Oct 2026

"Van founded the company in 2015."

Public listing

Not found · 15 Oct 2026

No listing on the pages read; treated as private.

Description

Official documentation · 15 Oct 2026

Company page: "generative AI tutoring that enable learners, enterprises, and schools"

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