Elomia Health has acquired Earkick , an AI companion used by more than 250,000 people to vent, track patterns in mood, sleep, activity, and daily habits.
Ukrainian entrepreneur Taras Pohrebniak founded Elomia Health in 2019 as an R&D lab exploring how large language models can support wellbeing.
Elomia's technology has been the subject of several independent studies, including a recent randomised controlled trial conducted with the University of Pennsylvania.
The acquisition marks a step along Elomia Health's strategic path: while the company started with its own consumer app, it is now growing into an API provider for care-focused organisations — with the goal of becoming the leading infrastructure for AI wellbeing support.
Earkick was founded in 2021 by Dr Herbert Bay, co-inventor of the SURF algorithm — one of the most widely used computer vision methods of the past two decades — and Karin Andrea Stephan, whose research on how technology can support everyday emotional wellbeing laid the foundation for the company.
The Earkick app helps people notice patterns in their daily lives and delivers personalised suggestions and content based on real data.
"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," said Karin Andrea Stephan, COO of Earkick.
The acquisition 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.
"From the beginning, our mission has been to make mental wellbeing more measurable, personal, and accessible," said Bay.
"Taras was among the first to bring LLMs into the wellbeing space, and he has built a company that shares our vision and brings deep expertise in safe, evidence-based support.
Together, we're building something far more powerful than either of us could have created independently."
In addition to the Earkick AI models, the deal gives the company ongoing early access to new versions of Mia21, a memory engine, originally developed by the Earkick team.
"Our focus is on helping organisations launch AI for wellbeing support the right way — safe by design, and something people actually use," said Pohrebniak.
"The Earkick team spent years building an engine that understands a person's state and context over time. By pairing it with our own models and our safety and overreliance-prevention layer, we're making it a core part of our technology."
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