Elomia Health acquires Earkick
Elomia Health, an AI mental wellbeing company, has acquired Earkick, an AI companion used by more than 250,000 people to vent and track patterns in mood, sleep, activity, and daily habits.
The acquisition marks a step in Elomia’s shift from a consumer app to an API provider for care-focused organisations, with the goal of becoming the leading infrastructure for AI wellbeing support.
Elomia Health was founded in 2019 by Ukrainian entrepreneur Taras Pohrebniak as an R&D lab exploring how large language models can support wellbeing. Its technology has been the subject of several independent studies, including a recent randomised controlled trial conducted with the University of Pennsylvania.
Earkick was founded in 2021 by Dr Herbert Bay and Karin Andrea Stephan. Bay is the co-inventor of the SURF algorithm, one of the most widely used computer vision methods of the past two decades, while Stephan’s research on how technology can support everyday emotional wellbeing laid the foundation for the company.
The deal expands the technology behind Elomia’s LLM-powered API, which lets organisations such as healthcare providers launch safe, compliance-ready AI chatbots for wellbeing support. It also gives the company ongoing early access to new versions of Mia21, a memory engine originally developed by the Earkick team.
“The right message at the right time — based on real data and delivered in a way people are most receptive to — can save lives. Bringing Earkick and Elomia together takes us a step closer to making that kind of personalised support available at scale,”
