Nina Eiböck is the Finance & Strategic Ops Lead in the Office of the CEO at Ello, the San Francisco edtech building the world's first AI reading coach for young children. An Austrian-raised, Oxford- and Stanford-trained financier, she left investment banking at J.P. Morgan and energy-sector finance to help run the numbers and the strategy behind a Series A startup teaching kids to read. She is the kind of operator who names her pet rabbits after Napoleon and Warren Buffett.
Ello is an AI reading coach for children in kindergarten through third grade. Through its 'Read with Ello' app, a friendly turquoise elephant listens to kids read aloud, catches mispronounced or skipped words, and offers gentle, phonics-based coaching in real time. Built on proprietary child speech-recognition technology and a library of hundreds of decodable books, Ello aims to give every child the patient, one-on-one reading tutor that has historically been available only to families who can afford it.