Elomia Health acquires Earkick to expand AI mental wellbeing platform

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 wellbe