Vu Van

Vu Van is co-founder and CEO of ELSA, a mobile app platform that helps language learners improve their pronunciation and speak like locals. ELSA is powered by our proprietary speech recognition and AI technology that is able to detect pronunciation errors in real time and provide tailored feedback and hints.

Prior to ELSA, Vu worked at Booz & Co as Engagement Manager, focusing primarily on tech and education clients, working on designing digital classroom and digital strategy. Besides, Vu also founded her non-profit organization (VietSeeds), a scholarship foundation that supports low-income disadvantaged highschool students to pursue college dream in Vietnam. VietSeeds is now in its 5th year of operations, and have supported 200+ students with a total scholarship of ~$400K.

Vu Van got her MBA and Master of Education at Stanford university, and currently live in San Francisco